Pascha nostrum

General information

Communion for Easter Sunday.
Source of text is 1 Corinthians 5:7-8.

Settings by composers

Anon. (Kodex des Magister Nicolaus Leopold, c.1500) TBB William Byrd AATTB Mariano Garau SATB Heinrich Isaac SATB

Nobuaki Izawa SATB Jens Klimek SSAATTBB Oreste Ravanello SSA Jacobus Vaet SSATB

Other settings possibly not included in the manual list above

• Conrad Rein — Pascha nostrum

Text and translations

Latin text Pascha nostrum immolatus est Christus, alleluia. Itaque epulemur in azymis sinceritatis et veritatis, alleluia.

English translation Christ our Paschal Lamb has been sacrificed, alleluia. Therefore, let us keep the feast with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth, alleluia.