Easter Week

Oh joy! Oh bliss! Oh happy day! Easter is come! Christ has risen from the dead, and crabbed Lent is gone and past! There is chocolate in my life again, and coffee too, which is cause for great rejoicing. But quite apart from that, I simply love Easter. I feel like this during Easter Time:

 

I also currently have the Easter sequence,  Victimae Paschali Laudes, going round and about my head. This is what it sounds like:

And here is the translation. I cannot say that it is my absolute favourite piece of liturgical music, but it is close. It is, after all, a glorious and magnificent bit of poetry:

  

Forth to the Paschal Victim, Christians, bring

Your sacrifice of praise:

The Lamb redeems the sheep;

And Christ, the sinless One,

Hath to the Father sinners reconciled.

Together death and life

In strange conflict strove.

The Prince of Life, who died,

Now lives and reigns.

What thou sawest, Mary, say,

As thou wentest on the way.

"I saw the tomb wherein the living One had lain,

I saw His glory as He rose again;

Napkin and linen cloths, and angels twain:

Yea, Christ has risen, my hope, and He

Will go before you into Galilee."

We know that Christ has risen from the grave:

Hail, Thou, King of Victory,

Have mercy Lord, and save.

 Amen. Alleluia.