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 Glee Club – The Notre Dame Glee Club is a 75-voice, all-male choral ensemble that first took the stage in 1915 and traditionally hosts four campus concerts, sings during home football weekends, and participates in international and domestic tours (some changes to performance schedules are currently in place due to the pandemic).

The lyrics of this piece take up the words of the centurion who requests healing for his servant but exhibits the humility to tell Jesus, “I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof, but only say the word and my servant shall be healed.” (Mt 8:8). We are familiar with this line from the Eucharistic Prayer, preceding our reception of the Body and Blood of Christ. As we draw near to the Paschal Triduum, we become more acutely aware of the fact that Jesus did in fact enter under the roof of creation and dwell among us. As we prepare to embrace Christ in his Last Supper on Holy Thursday and his ultimate sacrifice on Good Friday, we remember that we are made worthy of the promises of God only through the blood of our savior. In the sacrament of the Eucharist, he enters “under the roof” of each us who receive his sacramental presence.

(Lyrics)

“Domine, Non Sum Dignus” Tomas Luis de Victoria (1548-1611).
Copyright: Public Domain.

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