The Vigil Project is celebrating 10 years of restoring the heritage of Catholic music in the home, parish, and beyond.
Become 1 of 1,000 Voices to help us continue making music for the Catholic journey and supporting those called to do the same.
Music shapes the work of the whole Church, from liturgy to evangelization, because the way we sing directly affects the way we pray. So why is music one of the most divisive topics in so many parishes?
Over our 10th anniversary, The Vigil Project invites you to be 1 of 1,000 voices supporting the renewal of Catholics praying in song.
Here's what you can do:
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Pray together with music, and pray for the efforts of our ministry
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Grow in understanding of music’s role in faith
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Support The Vigil Project’s renewal efforts in homes, parishes, and dioceses
Your gift will help The Vigil Project to:
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Add staff to our parish and diocese ministry team, so more communities can grow in their understanding of Catholic music
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Create new resources, with Word on Fire, to teach hymns, chant, praise & worship, and psalmody to households
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Release our eight-episode film, Meaning of Music, featuring Matt Maher, Bishop Barron, the Monks of Solesmes, Paul Jernberg, and many more
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Invest in essential equipment to record new devotional music for Catholic listeners
This is a campaign about transformation, not about money. When you become 1 of 1,000 voices, you are signing up for a year of praying through song, and help communities around the world do the same.
Gifts of Gratitude
As a token of our appreciation for your support, The Vigil Project offers you these gifts of gratitude. Perks will be delivered as projects release over the course of 2027.
If applicable, the fair market value of any thank-you gifts will be deducted from the tax-deductible portion of your donation.
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MISSION IMPACT
Listeners reached through our catalogue of 10 excellent devotional Catholic music albums.
Formed through workshops, retreats, classrooms, parish & diocese consulting, online classes, and more.
Served through mission nights, bringing top-tier live music prayer experiences to even the smallest parishes throughout the US and Europe.
Beginning with the release of Ave Maria Press's Way of the Star Journal by Andrea Thomas and Greg Boudreaux (Fall 2026), The Vigil Project begins a new initiative of publishing resources to aid Catholic prayer in music.
In February 2027, Word on Fire will publish Musica Domestica by our own Andrew Goldstein and co-author David Clayton, helping an entire generation of Catholics know and understand a repertoire of song and sung prayer in the domestic church.
We are in the process of writing a new book to serve as the definitive handbook for musicians desiring to restore Catholic music in the parish, home, and missionary space.
After six years of production and tedious refinement, The Vigil Project and 4PM Media take you on an eight-episode film journey through the gift of music in the life of faith. Meaning of Music features an unmatched cast of musicians, theologians, clergy and more (including Bishop Robert Barron, Matt Maher, Steffany Gretzinger, Stephen Curtis Chapman, The Hillbilly Thomists, the monks of Solesmes Abbey, and many more) The Vigil Project travels the world to pose a timely question for our Church: Why does God give us music, and what do we do with this gift? The film is tentatively scheduled for public release in late 2027.
As a core part of our apostolate, The Vigil Project will continue to write music for the Catholic journey. In January 2027, we will release a vinyl and digital album recorded live during our 10th Anniversary Concert, and over the Spring months, we are writing music for the Sacred Paschal Triduum in partnership with Fr. Mark Toups and Our Lady of the Isle (Grand Isle, LA). Our studio is actively writing the film score for 10th Hour Production's Bernadette. New singles and a brand new lyrical album are on the horizon.
We are thrilled to announce that after nearly a decade of forming Catholic musicians for ministry, The Vigil Project and the Archdiocese of Modena (Italy) are collaborating on a brand new Institute for Catholic Musicians, to launch in Summer 2028. This six-week alternative to a university degree will train Catholic musicians for ministry in the parish, missionary space, and home, providing them with deep intellectual, spiritual, and musical training and establishing a strong start to their early-career output. Beginning in January 2027, we will take applications for this competitive cohort of 25 students.
A group of friends comes together in Fairhope, Alabama, to record their first album of devotional music, Series 1. Mission night tours to parishes begin, touring the US and Italy with devotional music.
The Vigil Project launches a Catholic Musician Retreat in Nashville, Tennessee, beginning its outreach to Catholic musicians formally.
The Vigil Project records and releases major albums, including A Jesus Por Maria, and True Presence, and begins touring with experiences that offer live music and Eucharistic adoration.
National partnerships with Word Among Us, Hallow, Exodus 90, Hagios Study, Divine Renovation, and many more.
The Vigil Project collaborates with the National Eucharistic Congress on the mainstage and side stages in Indianapolis.
The Vigil Project expands musician formation efforts, including an International Summit for Catholic Musicians in Italy, and CatholicMusician.org, a free online training platform for Catholic musicians.
The Vigil Project expands direct-to-parish and diocese formation, opens a recording studio in New Orleans, establishes a formal Institute in South Bend, Indiana, releases new music, and embarks on new partnerships with Midwest Theological Forum, Ave Maria Press, Word on Fire, and many more.