Christus resurgens

General information

Motet for Easter Sunday.
Source of text is Romans 6:9-10 & 4:25.

Settings by composers

Gregorian chant John Byrchley TB William Byrd ATTB (replaces v.4:25 with secunda pars) Giovanni Ceresini S or T solo Moris Gore TB

Orlando di Lasso STB or ATB (replaces v.4:25 with secunda pars) Orlando di Lasso SSATB (vv. 9,10) Joachimus de Monte SATTB ((vv.9,10b, replacing autem with enim) Peter Philips SSATB Jean Richafort SATB John Tailer ATBarBarB

For settings in English, see Christ being raised from the dead.

Other settings possibly not included in the manual list above

• Anonymous — Christus resurgens (Egerton MS)
• Anonymous — Christus resurgens (Pepys MS)
• Anonymous — Christus resurgens (Ritson MS)
• John Cornysh — Christus resurgens
• Robert Johnson — Christus resurgens
• Thomas Knyght — Christus resurgens
• John Redford — Christus resurgens

Text and translations

Latin text 6:9  Christus resurgens ex mortuis, jam non moritur, mors illi ultra non dominabitur. 6:10  Quod enim mortuus est peccato, mortuus est semel, quod autem vivit, vivit Deo, Alleluia. 4:25  Mortuus est enim propter delicta nostra: et resurrexit propter justificationem nostram, Quod autem vivit, vivit Deo, Alleluia. Secunda pars Dicant nunc Iudaei quomodo milites custodientes sepulcrum perdiderunt Regem. Ad lapidis positionem quare non servabant petram iustitiae? Aut sepultum reddant, aut resurgentem adorent, nobiscum dicentes: Alleluia.

English translation 6:9  Christ, rising again from the dead, dieth now no more. Death shall no more have dominion over him. 6:10  For in that he died to sin, he died once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. Alleluia. 4:25  He died for our sins and rose again for our justification, who liveth unto God. Alleluia. Secunda pars Let the Jews now say how it was that the soldiers guarding the sepulchre lost the King. Why did they not guard the tomb, which was sealed with a stone? Let them either return his buried body, or with us worship him risen, saying: Alleluia.