300 N. Sheppard St. Richmond, VA 23221
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SAINT BENEDICT MUSIC SERIES
Periodic concerts at Saint Benedict's offer high-quality music to parishioners and serve as a powerful tool for evangelization, providing non-Catholics with a window to the Catholic faith.
Concerts of sacred music "Create in churches a setting of beauty conducive to meditation, so as to arouse even in those who are distant from the Church an openness to spiritual values,” and "keep alive the treasures of Church music which must not be lost; musical pieces and songs composed for the Liturgy but which cannot in any way be conveniently incorporated into liturgical celebrations in modern times."
(Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments,
Music in Churches Other Than During Liturgical Celebrations, 1987)
Concerts
Saint Benedict Catholic Church is proud to present two performances in a Lenten concert series as part of our parish’s Lenten program offerings. Both of the concerts listed below are presented at no cost. However, a free-will offering will be taken to support the ongoing music series. Please share these exciting and unique concert opportunities with anyone who might enjoy them.
2025 Lenten Concert Series
On Thursday, March 20 at 7:00 p.m. we will present Three Notch’d Road in The Seven Last Words of Christ: Haydn in Cádiz.
This meditative masterpiece by Josef Haydn was premiered in Spain on Good Friday, 1787, and arranged for various instrumental and vocal combinations. The performance will feature a new arrangement for voice and string quartet by José Peris, notably performed at the Vatican in 2010 for Pope Benedict XVI.
On Saturday, March 29 at 7:30 p.m. we will present Richmond Concert Chorale and RVA Baroque.
This concert features baroque works for choir and period instruments including the Cantata “Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir," BWV 131, by J.S. Bach, and Alessandro Marcello’s glorious Oboe Concerto in D minor, S D93. These pieces will be juxtaposed with newly composed pieces including Kyle Smith’s In the Midst of Life for unaccompanied choir and Christa Rakich’s Hommage à J.S. Bach for solo organ.
