2025 Commencement: Commencement Mass (Vigil Mass for the Fifth Sunday of Easter)
In advance of Notre Dame's 180th University Commencement Ceremony, the University celebrated a Vigil Mass for the Fifth Sunday of Easter on May 17, 2025, with principal celebrant and homilist Rev. Robert A. Dowd, C.S.C. The Mass also included brief remarks by Most Rev. Kevin C. Rhoades, Bishop of the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend.00:00:00 Academic Procession
00:32:51 Procession of Ministers and Clergy
00:37:45 Introductory Rites
00:41:54 Liturgy of the Word
01:07:09 Liturgy of the Eucharist
01:50:47 Concluding Rites
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