Read Kate’s latest for The Tablet – Learning the Victimae paschali for Easter
In only a couple of weeks now we will have reached Easter. As well as getting back the Gloria and the Alleluias (still sadly shorn of their exclamation mark), there is a particular extra bit of liturgy for Easter Sunday Mass.
It comes after the Second Reading and before the Alleluia-before-the-Gospel. It is of course the Victimae paschali. This is one of the “Sequences” that occur at various points in the Church’s year. Others include the Veni, Sancte Spiritus at Pentecost, and the Lauda, Sion, Salvatorem at Corpus Christi, which is where Panis angelicus comes from.
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