Christ Our Passover
SATB choral/organ score with optional timpani part
PEL5004-RII-Choir and Organ
A WORK FOR CHOIR AND ORGAN AND OPTIONAL TIMPANI
This setting of the "Easter Anthems" was composed for the choir of Trinity Episcopal Church in Torrington, CT for the Easter Vigil Service. The dramatic unfolding of words and music building to the final climactic 'Alleluia" provides the perfect transition from the Old Testament prophecies to the first mass of Easter. The piece is also generally used for services on Easter Day and during the Easter season.
Composed in honor of The Reverend Ellen Tillotson, Rector, Trinity Episcopal Church, Torrington, CT
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Included on the recording "Let Us Keep The Feast" with The University of King’s College Chapel Choir, directed by Paul Halley. This setting of the "Easter Anthems" is used at the Chapel every Easter Vigil as the sacred ministers process to the newly dressed high altar for the first mass of Easter.
Texts
Christ our Passover Pascha nostrum
Words: 1 Corinthians 5:7-8; Romans 6:9-11; 1 Corinthians 15:20-22, Book of Common Prayer
Music: Paul Halley
Alleluia.
Christ our Passover has been sacrificed for us;
therefore let us keep the feast,
Not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil,
but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. Alleluia.
Christ being raised from the dead will never die again;
death no longer has dominion over him.
The death that he died, he died to sin, once for all;
but the life he lives, he lives to God.
So also consider yourselves dead to sin,
and alive to God in Jesus Christ our Lord. Alleluia.
Christ has been raised from the dead,
the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep.
For since by a man came death,
by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead.
For as in Adam all die,
so also in Christ shall all be made alive. Alleluia.
Words: 1 Corinthians 5:7-8; Romans 6:9-11; 1 Corinthians 15:20-22
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