Happy Easter, everyone. May the new life of our Risen Lord well up in every heart!
I thought that since many will be denied the sequence at Sunday Mass today, even though it isn't optional, I would post it for you.
Victimae paschali laudes
immolent Christiani.
Agnus redemit oves:
Christus innocens Patri
reconciliavit peccatores.
Mors et vita duello
conflixere mirando:
dux vitae mortuus, regnat vivus.
Dic nobis Maria,
quid vidisti in via?
Sepulcrum Christi viventis,
et gloriam vidi resurgentis:
Angelicos testes, sudarium, et vestes.
Surrexit Christus spes mea:
praecedet suos in Galilaeam.
Scimus Christum surrexisse
a mortuis vere:
tu nobis, victor Rex, miserere.
Amen. Alleluia!
Christians to the Paschal Victim
Offer your thankful praises!
A Lamb the sheep redeems;
Christ, who only is sinless,
Reconciles sinners to the Father.
Death and life have contended
in that combat stupendous:
The Prince of life, who died, reigns immortal.
Speak, Mary, declaring
What you saw, wayfaring.
The tomb of Christ, who is living,
The glory of Jesus' Resurrection;
Bright angels attesting,
the shroud and napkin resting.
Yes, Christ my hope is arisen;
to Galilee he goes before you.
Christ indeed from death is risen,
our new life obtaining.
Have mercy, victor King, ever reigning!
Amen. Alleluia!
3 comments:
Happy Easter!
Alleluia, and thank you! I hope to get to hear it again at Mass this morning, but I'm not holding my breath.
Wow! You are psychic! One of the choir members asked me how I liked service and I said it was lovely. and she was like too much singing. No. I said the singing was lovely but you forgot the Easter Sequence, the Pascal Victim. What's a sequence.
sigh.
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