Victime pascali laudes
Immolent Christiani.
Agnus redemit oves
Christus innocens patri
Reconciliavit peccatores.
Mors et vita
Duello conflixere
Mirando, dux vite
Mortuus regnat vivus.
Dic nobis Maria
Quid vidisti in via?
Sepulchrum Christi viventis,
Et gloriam vidi resurgentis.
Angelicos testes,
Sudarium vestes.
Surrexit Christus spes nostra,
Precedet suos in Galilea.
Credendum magis soli Marie veraci
Quam Judeorum turbe fallaci.
Scimus Christum surrexisse
A mortuis vere.
Tu nobis victor rex, miserere.
Alleluya!
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Let Christians offer praises
To the paschal victim.
A lamb has redeemed the sheep,
The innocent Christ to the Father
Has restored sinners.
Death and life,
Fought an astonishing duel,
And the dead Prince of Life
Lives and reigns.
“Tell us, Mary,
What did you see as you went?”
“The tomb of the living Christ,
The glory of the Resurrected One.”
The angel witnesses.
The shroud, and the burial clothes.
Christ our hope has risen and will
Precede his followers to Galilee.”
More trust is to be put in honest Mary alone
Than in the lying crowd of Jews.
We know that Christ has truly risen
From the dead.
Victorious king, have pity on us.
Alleluia!
—Transl. Lawrence Rosenwald
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