Events at
Onze-Lieve-Vrouw Geboorte
Stadhuisplein 8
3700 Tongeren
Basilica | 1254 | Gothic | Catholic Church
Good Friday - Quiet for a moment
Concert
18 April 2025 : 17.00 - 18.00
Good Friday, after the hopeful Maundy Thursday with its institution of the Eucharist, the priesthood and the serving diaconate, is rather a bit of a sad day. Many of us experience with Jesus, as a Mary or John under the Cross, the pain, the anguish, the suffering, the sadness of dying. Yet the most beautiful images in the side chapels of the Basilica are the images of Christ on the Cold Stone and especially the Pieta, the poignant sorrow of our Mother of all.
Led by our cantor Jan Peeters, together with De Kleine Cantorij and Magda Rouffaer, we want to pause for a moment on Good Friday, between the Stations of the Cross (3 pm) and the Veneration of the Cross (8 pm). Record the suffering of Jesus in a meditation of song and word. The Little Cantorij sings from the Passion according to John by Jan Valkestijn and choral works from the liturgy of Holy Week by Tomás Luis de Victoria and Antonin Tucapský. Magda Rouffaer provides the word meditation. Just a little while before Easter.
Price
FreeContact
Albert Boulet+32 478 53 04 67
albert.boulet@gmail.com
Organizers:
De Kleine CantorijMusica Sacra Basiliek TongerenOther events at Onze-Lieve-Vrouw Geboorte
31 May 2025 : 15.00 - 16.00
You can see and hear the town's carillonneur at work from the listening platform in the tower, or from the listening points around the basilica.
Hidden treasures in the attic
31 May 2025 - 01 June 2025 : 09.00 - 18.00
At Tongeren's Our Lady Basilica, you can visit the treasury every day, filled with valuable and ancient church treasures (teseum.be). Or its archaeological underground site with churches built from the 4th century onwards. Or the museum story of the church tower that was also a belfry. But, for the occasion of Open Churches Days, we found enough beautiful treasures in our attics to fill several more exhibition cabinets in the large choir of the Basilica. Exceptionally, the choir will then be accessible to visitors. They can admire up close the Mary retable (ca 1500) with 160 figures on 23 scenes from the life of Mary or the impressive Renaissance stained-glass windows from 1542. Saturday 31 May 2025 can be visited (via entrance in the Teseum).
31 May 2025 : 16.00 - 17.00
Organ concert given by young assistant organist, Ukrainian Nicetas Aksenov.
