I Am the Bread of Life | Notre Dame Folk Choir

[@joffercalifornia]

The song was written by Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan, who was teaching at a high school in the San Francisco Bay area. She didn't quite like the song, so she threw it in a wastebasket. One of her students retrieved it and convinced her to reconsider. I'm sure glad she did. And hey, it's got a great bass part.

[@LifterwiII]

WOW Joe .... Thanks for that great history!!! What a masterpiece of JOY!!

[@whateva8964]

That student who retrieved it is my Godmother :). Happy she did that!

[@dhmrdh]

It’s so refreshing to see so many young people worshiping!! 😇

[@gregorycharles3431]

I'm sure the priests love all the young men being so active in the church.

[@ArnoldTeras]

Wow! While I am not Catholic, I am still deeply moved by this song! May all Christians around the world stand united, now than more than ever, in the power of the one true King!

[@sarco64]

This hymn is also frequently sung during communion in Lutheran churches.

[@sarco64]

@Joshua Lopez I am. Not Roman Catholic, but Evangelical Catholic, aka Lutheran.

[@sarco64]

@Joshua Lopez Martin Luther was adamant that the doctrine of justification is the doctrine on which the church stands or falls. I think that the Lutheran understanding of this doctrine is truer to scripture than the RC understanding, which is that justification is a lifelong transformation of the believer Lutherans believe that justification is a gift which we receive by grace through faith. When we are united with Christ through faith, His perfect righteousness is credited to us, and our sin is credited to Him. As Romans 5:1 states, we HAVE BEEN justified through faith. This justification serves as the basis for our lifelong transformation into more Christ-like people, which Lutherans refer to as sanctification. This transformation does not contribute to our justification, rather it flows from our justification.

[@iamme4882]

Thank you❤

[@dextermafu5312]

That first hook with no instruments🥺🙌

[@ravindertalwar553]

LI FE IS TO LOVE AND TO BE LOVED 💕 LOVE ALONE CAN CONQUER THE WORLD

[@TenorKellyRobertson]

They nailed it! This was great. It's exactly how I would like my choir to do it during mass.

[@ChristianPaolino]

I would drive to Indiana just to be there when this choir offered this hymn.

[@victorchristy1706]

I may say, who ever sang those high notes, has a beautiful voice like I have ever heard in my life.

[@richardcallahan8698]

YES, There is a brunette with straight hair who sounds out. Really amazing.

[@ThomasMusings]

You know, this was sung at my father's funeral (very beautifully, by a family friend), so there will be a shadow whenever I hear it. But this rendition puts the hymn into a new light, so thank you.

[@johnfernando3605]

Such a Heavenly Rendition. that Soprano is Angelic and Out of this World.😇😇

[@timardner5277]

It's amazing that the pipe organ can be used with an acoustic guitar at the same time. More churches need to learn from this rendition so more people can hear music like this.

[@wars5438]

Their voice sound like a thousand of angels sing.

[@sharondoan1447]

This may be the most beautiful arrangement of I Am The Bread Of Life it has ever been my pleasure to hear. I am viewing and listening to your video seven years since you recorded it. So much has taken place in the lives of us all in the past seven years. In 2022 it is just as vital to be reminded of the promises of Jesus as it ever was or ever will be.

[@martinn9893]

Thinking I went to the wrong college for undergrad. I love this so much, thank you!

[@AdamBalbo]

I love this. ❤ Praise God

[@briantomcik]

Love the brunette who's singing the alto part right by the camera - fantastic singing!

[@laninepomuceno6774]

God bless us start and end your day with our ALMIGHTY GOD. Let us help one another to share wisdom comes from our Almighty God. Thanks

[@Connor-qh6rj]

How they sing this is the traditional way and the best way. Went to catholic school 1st to 11th grade. I love the music they had, now I’m skeptical about Jesus but I do miss the songs and the few good people

[@mykileryk]

Often stilted when sung at slower tempos, such a blessing to hear and see this joyful performance.

[@sharondoan1447]

Amen to that! It should be sung with energy and celebration!

[@sarahgrant5662]

This gives me chills and such a sense of peace. A beautiful hymn!

[@delightedbyu1]

THANK YOU NOTRE DAME!!

[@paulgilbert8029]

You definitely earned yourselves a larger choir loft! Hope you get one! 😇

[@georgegarcia1445]

I listen to this every morning, to help me face the day.

[@sbpowell1969]

BEAUTIFUL!!!! Folk choir? Why can we not have that down south darn it:-D

[@MARKPARROTTE]

Jesus is Lord! One of my favorite hymns

[@laninepomuceno6774]

Always God bless us and let us help one another to back to normal our situation and back to school the children and youth. In God all things are possible po. From Lani D. Nepomuceno, Philippines

[@christophernajera8383]

Praise JESUS HES THE KING THE EVERLASTING FATHER

[@SherryLloyd-vq8im]

Ķ😂 2:47

[@blaquevamp]

Rice University had a chapel off campus that performed this song almost identically. I would grow up hearing it every year on Easter Sunday. It was always so beautiful with the harmony and the folk instrumentals. I miss it and it holds a profound place in my heart. ❤

[@너자신은-b2r]

I am the Bread of Life. ... I am the Resurrection. I am the Life. ... And I will raise you up on the last day. HAPPY EASTER, everyone ! For those who are watching this, I am looking forward to seeing you celebrate the Eucharist next Easter Sunday ! May God be with you !

[@illuminem]

My friends, these wonderful young people show us the secret to making beautiful music. Yes, music that is actually beautiful, such as this timeless hymn, helps. But the key is to sing with all of our hearts, with all of our power, as these young people demonstrated. And sing with a smile. You can really hear it! Excellent rendition!

[@annk3372]

What a gift to everyone at that mass!!!

[@jkcarroll]

Excellent! I've been cruising the web looking for a version that wasn't so ... serious. (As an aside, I love how the blonde woman in the back on the right is so enthusiastic!)

[@tobyweir3221]

Yea. I noticed her right off!

[@amazingheroart]

I sent this video to everyone from my college choir (St. Anselm College, back in 1993) and everyone comments on that blonde woman.... Such joy... I hope she sees these comments... Her bliss brightens the world.

[@annk3372]

This is the best version on you tube! I want to go see this choir!

[@johnchenky]

Absolutely amazing choir! It's a great joy watching you all and listening to the voices.

[@joannastarner8179]

Each word significant for those who believe

[@tramarherrera6685]

Blessed be God forever and ever!!!

[@Pstkolade]

I love this,,, love from Nigeria 🇳🇬 jesus is love ❤️

[@patcandelora8496]

Oh blessed hope!

[@slavvoslava4694]

This remains the best version on KZbin. Thank you for your perfection

[@tambrosia]

BRAVO and so many Thanks to each person involved in bringing this music to life. May OUR LORD Bless you and keep you all well and safe and may you all do great works in life. PAX+

[@tomdobberteen42]

Can't get enough of this. Beautiful hymn, great instrumentation to compliment the choir, and pure joy coming from the performers. Thank you!

[@johnboateng184]

Wow! I didn't know European Church could be so Lively😁! The Lord Bless you all!!!! Greetings from West Africa.

[@ChristianPaolino]

This is the USA, but yes it is wonderful to see. Archbishop Desmond Tutu is quoted as saying "I didn't know until I came to America that it was possible to sing without moving!"

[@tonyfurtado5595]

@@ChristianPaolino There’s a fair amount of bouncing going on.

[@zeagias]

That one womans voice was so much more powerful than the rest.

[@Loreman72]

😭😭😭 We're now in Christmas, with NO CAROLS!!! Blast this stupid lockdown! GOD, when can I belt it out again???

[@ericchase1167]

God bless each of you

[@laninepomuceno6774]

God bless us very beautiful and nice Voice. Thank you so much po and regards to all of you there in your country. From Lani D. Nepomuceno, Philippines

[@kynes333]

Awesome! One of my favorite songs. Can't get through it in church without tears. Beautifully done version!

[@suzannedahms9195]

What a wonderful rendition and just the right tempo.

[@augustineraj3662]

what a lively singing.....indeed full of life..... God bless

[@ChrisBakerNY]

The one soprano Represented doing the descant at the end. WORD.

[@siennam3]

What a VOICE!!!

[@siennam3]

She's the one dead center above the organist.

[@gsaldana22]

Sounds like it would be the smiling blonde girl in the top row near the person filming,

[@GreaterGood2024]

@@gsaldana22 definitely not the smiling blonde who's smiling impishly.... To sing so beautifully you would have a rather serious face... Its the dark haired girl directly in front of the organist flanked by the bespectacled girls on her right and left

[@katiewilliams5643]

Great music former Notre dame soccer coach Mike Berticellli would have been so proud what a blessed weekend it was.

[@myrnajavate]

indeed the best rendition by a choir!

[@66gardener]

What a vibrant, joyous and energetic chorus!

[@moose201]

So beautiful, thank you!

[@jhill74893]

I got here because of the Fisherfolk version but this is a superb version

[@utubeDaveutube]

Perfect. Percussion...singers...wonderful. Just. As. It. Is!!! :)

[@MrPrince0046]

Beautiful job and everyone looks so happy and smiling...what a happy sight to see!!!

[@whit2642]

The mouth naturally draws into a smile to sing this song. This song is my favorite to sing in mass. Since I was a kid. Slow or fast tempo, it works and it comforts. This even looks exactly like my lifelong church, St Joseph’s Catholic Church in Macon GA. Beautiful.

[@yongdgee1]

Laudate dominum!! Youngsters in Notre Dame are beautiful.

[@Aggromerchant]

God bless all of you. Blessings from Cape Cod, MA.

[@5Mariner]

Next to Amazing Grace, this is my favorite hymn to the Lord

[@anthonyglenn1996]

Love the Intro! Trying to teach it to my students currently!!

[@bermonbasilan]

We’ve been using this since i saw this rendition… i really love it!

[@sharondoan1447]

Awesome! Every time I view and listen to your arrangement of this glorious hymn, I am carried away by the beauty of it. Thank you and God bless you.

[@tsxeditors7767]

We sang this for our great friend, Father Juan Leon, OFM, at his funeral at Mission Santa Barbara (where he is interned) in 1998. RIP to a great man. .

[@hilarialawag4000]

We sing this song during communion in our parish

[@chocolate-eq6jn]

Superb job by the soprano in the back row. I wonder what she is doing now?

[@siennam3]

WOW! That young lady in the middle of the back row...HUUUGE VOICE. Just beautiful. Thankyou, dear, and thank you , choir. Just breathtaking praise and aong.

[@fbagbey]

Can you describe her more specifically? What is she wearing? Her voice is quite strong like my mother's. I love this!!

[@siennam3]

@@fbagbey Yes, she is straight back from the conductor, against the wooden wall and the pipe organ, She is dead center, holding her hymnal high. Listen to the music and watch her, that is the huge voice.

[@fbagbey]

@@siennam3 Many thanks. Got her! I listen to this often. Just wish I had the religious enthusiasm of these young people. "One of these days....."

[@siennam3]

@@fbagbey Your mother sang like her? OMG, this young lady has a huge, lovely voice!

[@siennam3]

@@fbagbey You can tell it's her. You have to really open your mouth like she is to belt out a song like that.

[@billbentley9783]

Absolutely WONDERFUL!! Amazing that it is being sung in English at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris

[@ChristianPaolino]

This is at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana.

[@adeekus]

always a banger at church

[@jeffreykolonel1367]

Glorious beautiful music

[@natkretep]

Love the great smiles during the singing!

[@commentsbydjb3821]

Love it

[@fbagbey]

Love this! This performance omits two of Sister Toolan's verses. Here are the lyrics: I am the bread of life. He who comes to me shall not hunger; he who believes in me shall not thirst. No one can come to me unless the Father draw him. And I will raise him up, and I will raise him up, and I will raise him up on the last day. The bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world, and he who eats of this bread, he shall live for ever, he shall live for ever. And I will raise him up, and I will raise him up, and I will raise him up on the last day. Unless you eat of the flesh of the Son of Man and drink of his blood, and drink of his blood, you shall not have life within you. And I will raise him up, and I will raise him up, and I will raise him up on the last day. I am the resurrection, I am the life. He who believes in me even if he die, he shall live for ever. And I will raise him up, and I will raise him up, and I will raise him up on the last day. Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who has come into the world. And I will raise him up, and I will raise him up, and I will raise him up on the last day.

[@Sparfucile]

You will notice that the male pronouns have been subjected in this rendition. I wonder why? Do people really find it offensive that the original lyrics were - 'I will raise HIM up'?

[@CP-ll6qg]

@@Sparfucile "you" is more personal, makes it feel like the message is directly for each listener. It's also a nicer word to sing on since it ends in an open vowel sound.

[@tirajebin2017]

Beautiful song! I really like it.. they sing with joy and smile...God Bless You All!!

[@HarmonicTremor]

Felt like dancing in The Spirit!

[@johnj.flanagan-hymnsoffaith]

Very beautiful hymn, great vocals, and the lyrics so uplifting. Soli Deo Gloria.

[@mikegerardi7213]

Perfection!!!!👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@shainiekasthuriarachchi8601]

This is Happiness

[@annk3372]

I need to see this choir!

[@djken4k864]

Joy. How welcome it is!

[@bermonbasilan]

i love this Liturgical Music, and I love the girl at the right side at the back of Basses... 😊😊😊😊😊😊

[@bermonbasilan]

she's lovely... so much... i love watching her singing...

[@amazingheroart]

AMAZING, AMAZING, AMAZING! THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOUUUUU!

[@angeliclily954]

Amen 🙏

[@michaeldriscoll8508]

Amen

[@marcingraham4493]

Amen!

[@GreaterGood2024]

Can we know who did the high Soprano at the end? Fantastic!

[@ardchattanchurch4759]

Calum love this song on 13 December 2020

[@augustineraj3662]

well done ..... tenors dominating during refrain

[@stevewarner5973]

This arrangement is taken straight from the composer, Sr. Suzanne Toolan, published by GIA in Chicago, IL. Thanks for your interest!

[@shubitoxX]

Does anyone which arrangement this group was singing? It's definitely not this one www.georgiafaith.com/files/I%20am%20the%20Bread%20of%20Life.pdf Maybe they wrote their own?

[@lapurmitch7707]

Awesome to say the least!👍😁

[@snavarro228]

Memories...

[@suzannedahms9195]

And what great and powerful voices! Wow!

[@paneethaameresekere1615]

Beautiful ! Praise God!

[@ManCalledMif]

awesome arrangement

[@ChristianPaolino]

Right? I want to find the sheet music!

[@tuebor1837]

Feeling down? Have a listen.

[@marylouerb9301]

Beautiful song ,thanks

[@annedarragh6211]

Pure joy x

[@garyschwitz3383]

always a real blessing!

[@etnocnad]

Looks crowded up there!

[@GreaterGood2024]

Was Kiri Te Kanawa doing the high Soprano at the end? 😆 Beautiful!

[@annk3372]

This is incredible

[@kaykay3585]

Wow!