During the season of Lent, FaithND will provide meditations on this season of preparation through musical offerings from the many Notre Dame choirs and sacred music ensembles. Songs will be featured on Ash Wednesday, each Tuesday and Saturday of Lent, and every day of Holy Week through the Octave of Easter.

Notre Dame Children’s Choir – The Children’s Choir, along with its satellite community choirs, educates over 300 singers–from birth through high school–in music literacy, vocal training, and choral music, every week. They are dedicated to the revitalization of sacred music in the community, regularly singing in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart and throughout the greater South Bend-Michiana area.

Two weeks into the Lenten season, perhaps we are reminded of the dryness of the desert, the fatigue of our promises, or the realities of suffering in the world. Although we are called to enter more deeply into this darkness, at the same time we are drawing more deeply into the heart of the Lord, who neither slumbers nor sleeps. In moments of weakness, let us call upon the Lord, our help, shade, and guardian. Together let us raise our eyes toward the mountains and toward the Lord, the make of heaven and earth.

(Lyrics)
I will lift up mine eyes to the hills
From whence cometh my help
My help cometh from the Lord
The Lord which made heaven and earth
He said he would not suffer thy foot
Thy foot to be moved
The Lord which keepeth thee
He will not slumber nor sleep
Oh the Lord is thy keeper
The Lord is thy shade
Upon thy right hand
Upon thy right hand
No, the sun shall not smite thee by day
Nor the moon by night
He shall preserve thy soul
Even forever more
My help, my help, my help
All of my help cometh from the Lord
I will lift up mine eyes to the hills
From whence cometh my help
My help cometh from the Lord
The Lord which made heaven and earth
He said he would not suffer thy foot
Thy foot to be moved
The Lord which keepeth thee
He will not slumber nor sleep
Oh the Lord is thy keeper
The Lord is thy shade
Upon thy right hand
Upon thy right hand
No, the sun shall not smite thee by day
Nor the moon by night
He shall preserve thy soul
Even forever more
My help, my help, my help
All of my help cometh from the Lord
Oh the Lord is thy keeper
Oh the Lord is thy keeper
The Lord is thy shade (the Lord is thy shade)
Upon thy right hand, upon thy right hand
No the sun shall not smite thee (no the sun shall not smite me by day)
Nor the moon by night, he shall preserve thy soul even for ever more (even for ever more)
My help (my help) my help (comes from you Lord Jesus) my help (all of my help) all of my help cometh from the Lord
My help (I can count on you Jesus), my help, ’cause I know you are, all of my help
All of my help cometh from the Lord
All of my help cometh from the Lord
I wanted to live, I wanted to die (all of my help) all of my help (cometh from the Lord)
(My help) my help (my help) comes from you Lord Jesus (my help) all of my help (all of my help)
Cometh from the Lord (my help), I can count on you Jesus, ’cause I know you will
All of my help (all of my help) cometh from my Lord (my help)
I know I can make it (my help) ’cause I know you will be there
All of my help cometh from my Lord
All of my help cometh from the Lord”

“I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes” Composer: Colin Mawby
Copyright: Public Domain.

For more songs, please visit Songs of Notre Dame: A Lenten Offering