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O Sons and Daughters, Let Us Sing

Author: Jean Tisserand; John Mason Neale Hymnal: Voices United #170 (1996) Meter: 8.8.8 with alleluias Topics: Easter 1 Year A; Easter 1 Year B; Easter 1 Year C First Line: O sons and daughters, let us sing! Refrain First Line: Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Lyrics: Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! 1 O sons and daughters, let us sing! The King of heaven, the glorious King, o'er death and hell rose triumphing. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! 2 That Easter morn, at break of day, the faithful women went their way to seek the tomb where Jesus lay: Hallelujah! Hallelujah! 3 An angel clad in white they see, who sat and spoke unto the three, "Your Lord doth go to Galilee." Hallelujah! Hallelujah! 4 That night the apostles met in fear; amidst them came their Lord most dear, and said, "My peace be on all here." Hallelujah! Hallelujah! 5 So, on this holy day of days, with faith in God our voices raise, in laud and jubilee and praise. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! [Additional verses for the Second Sunday of Easter:] 1 When Thomas first the tidings heard, how they had seen the risen Lord, he doubted the disciples' word. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! 2 "My piercèd side, O Thomas, see; my hands, my feet, I show to thee; not faithless, but believing be." Hallelujah! Hallelujah! 3 No longer Thomas then denied; he saw the feet, the hands, the side; "Thou art my Lord and God," he cried. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! 4 How blest are they who have not seen, and yet whose faith has constant been, for they eternal life shall win. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Languages: English Tune Title: O FILII ET FILIAE

Christ the Lord is Risen Today

Author: Charles Wesley Hymnal: Voices United #157 (1996) Meter: 7.7.7.7 with alleluias Topics: Easter 1 Year A; Easter 1 Year B; Easter 1 Year C First Line: Christ the Lord is risen today, hallelujah! Lyrics: 1 Christ the Lord is risen today, hallelujah! all creation join to say; hallelujah! raise your joys and triumphs high; hallelujah! sing, O heavens, and earth reply: hallelujah! 2 Love's redeeming work is done, hallelujah! fought the fight, the battle won. Hallelujah! Lo, our sun's eclipse is o'er! Hallelujah! Lo! he dwells in death no more! Hallelujah! 3 Lives again our glorious King: hallelujah! where, O death, is now your sting? Hallelujah! Once he died, our souls to save: hallelujah! where your victory, O grave? Hallelujah! 4 Hail, the Lord of earth and heaven, hallelujah! praise to you by both be given! Hallelujah! Every knee to you shall bow, hallelujah! risen Christ, triumphant now. Hallelujah! Tune Title: EASTER HYMN

The Strife Is O'er

Author: Francis Pott Hymnal: Voices United #159 (1996) Meter: 8.8.8 with alleluia Topics: Easter 1 Year A; Easter 1 Year B; Easter 1 Year C First Line: The strife is o'er, the battle done Lyrics: 1 The strife is o'er, the battle done, the victory of life is won; the song of triumph has begun, hallelujah! 2 The powers of death have done their worst, but Christ their legions has dispersed: let shouts of holy joy outburst, hallelujah! 3 He closed the ancient gates of hell, the bars from heaven's high portals fell; let hymns of praise his triumphs tell, hallelujah! 4 On the third morn he rose again, glorious in majesty to reign; O let us swell the joyful strain, hallelujah! Languages: English Tune Title: VICTORY

This Is the Day That God Has Made

Author: Natalie Sleeth Hymnal: Voices United #175 (1996) Meter: Irregular Topics: Easter 1 Year A; Easter 1 Year B; Easter 1 Year C First Line: Christ has conquered death at last Refrain First Line: This is the day that God has made! Languages: English Tune Title: EASTER JOY

Jesus Christ Is Risen Today

Hymnal: Voices United #155 (1996) Meter: 7.7.7.7 with alleluias Topics: Easter 1 Year A; Easter 1 Year B; Easter 1 Year C First Line: Jesus Christ is risen today, hallelujah Lyrics: 1 Jesus Christ is risen today, hallelujah! our triumphant holy day, hallelujah! who did once, upon the cross, hallelujah! suffer to redeem our loss, hallelujah! 2 Hymns of praise then let us sing, hallelujah! unto Christ, our heavenly King, hallelujah! who endured the cross and grave, hallelujah! sinners to redeem and save, hallelujah! 3 But the pains which he endured, hallelujah! our salvation have procured, hallelujah! now above the sky he’s King, hallelujah! where the angels ever sing, hallelujah! 4 Sing we to our God above, hallelujah! praise eternal as God's love, hallelujah! praise our God, ye heavenly host, hallelujah! praise the Son and Holy Ghost, hallelujah! Languages: English Tune Title: EASTER HYMN

Thine is the Glory (À toi la gloire)

Author: Edmond Louis Budry; Richard Birch Hoyle Hymnal: Voices United #173 (1996) Topics: Easter 1 Year A; Easter 1 Year C First Line: À toi la gloire (Thine is the glory) Lyrics: 1 À toi la gloire, Ô Ressuscité! À toi la victoire pour l’éternité! Brillant de lumière, l’ange est descendu, il roule la pierre du tombeau vaincu. [Refrain:] À toi la gloire, O Ressuscité! À toi la victoire pour l’éternité! 2 Vois-le paraître: c’est lui, c’est Jésus, ton Sauveur, ton maître! Oh! ne doute plus. Sois dans l’allégresse, peuple du Seigneur, et redis sans cesse que Christ est vainqueur! [Refrain] 3 Craindrais-je encore? Il vit à jamais, celui que j’adore, le prince de paix; il est ma victoire, mon puissant soutien, ma vie et ma gloire: non, je ne crains rien! [Refrain] 1 Thine is the glory, risen, conquering Son: endless is the victory thou o’er death hast won. Angels in bright raiment rolled the stone away, kept the folded grave-clothes where the body lay. [Refrain:] Thine is the glory, risen, conquering Son, endless is the victory thou o’er death hast won. 2 Lo, Jesus meets us, risen from the tomb! lovingly he greets us, scatters fear and gloom. Let the church with gladness hymns of triumph sing, for the Lord now liveth: death hath lost its sting. [Refrain] 3 No more we doubt thee, glorious Prince of life; Life is nought without thee: aid us in our strife; make us more than conquerors, through thy deathless love; bring us safe through Jordan to thy home above. [Refrain] Languages: English; French Tune Title: JUDAS MACCABAEUS

Come, You Faithful, Raise the Strain

Author: John of Damascus; John Mason Neale Hymnal: Voices United #165 (1996) Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Topics: Easter 1 Year A; Easter 1 Year B; Easter 1 Year C Lyrics: 1 Come, you faithful, raise the strain of triumphant gladness: God has brought forth Israel into joy from sadness, loosed from Pharaoh's bitter yoke Jacob's sons and daughters, led them with unmoistened foot through the Red Sea waters. 2 'Tis the spring of souls today, Christ has burst his prison, and from three days' sleep in death as a sun has risen; all the winter of our sins, long and dark, is flying from his light, to whom we give laud and praise undying. 3 Now the queen of seasons, bright with the day of splendour, with the royal feast of feasts, comes its joy to render; comes to gladden faithful hearts, who with true affection welcome in unwearied strains Jesus' resurrection! 4 Neither could the gates of death, nor the tomb's dark portal, nor the watchers, nor the seal hold him as a mortal: for today amid his own he now stands, bestowing God's true peace which evermore passes human knowing. Languages: English Tune Title: AVE VIRGO VIRGINUM

The Day of Resurrection

Author: John of Damascus; John Mason Neale Hymnal: Voices United #164 (1996) Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Topics: Easter 1 Year B; Easter 1 Year C First Line: The day of resurrection! Lyrics: 1 The day of resurrection! Earth, tell it out abroad; the passover of gladness, the passover of God! From death to life eternal, from earth unto the sky, our Christ has brought us over, with hymns of victory. 2 Our hearts be pure from evil, that we may see aright the Christ in rays eternal of resurrection light, and, listening to the accents, may hear so calm and plain his own "All hail!" and, hearing, may raise the victor strain. 3 Now let the heavens be joyful, let earth its song begin, the round world keep high triumph, and all that is therein; let all things seen and unseen their notes in gladness blend, for Christ indeed is risen, our Joy that has no end. Languages: English Tune Title: ELLACOMBE

Good Christians All, Rejoice and Sing

Author: Cyril A. Alington, 1872-1955 Hymnal: Voices United #169 (1996) Meter: 8.8.8 with alleluia Topics: Easter 1 Year A; Easter 1 Year C Lyrics: 1 Good Christians all, rejoice and sing! Now is the triumph of our King! To all the world glad news we bring: Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah! 2 The Lord of life is risen today! Bring flowers of song, bedeck the way; let every tongue rejoice and say: Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah! 3 Praise we in songs of victory that love, that life which cannot die, and sing with hearts uplifted high: Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah! 4 Your name we bless, O risen Lord, and sing today with one accord the life laid down, the life restored: Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah! Languages: English Tune Title: VULPIUS (GELOBT SEI GOTT)

The Head That Once Was Crowned

Author: Thomas Kelly Hymnal: Voices United #190 (1996) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Topics: Easter 1 Year A First Line: The head that once was crowned with thorns Lyrics: 1 The head that once was crowned with thorns is crowned with glory now; a royal diadem adorns the mighty victor’s brow. 2 The joy of all who dwell above, the joy of all below, to whom he manifests his love and grants his name to know. 3 To them the cross with all its shame, with all its grace is given, their name an everlasting name, their joy the joy of heaven. 4 They suffer here with Christ below, they reign with him above, their profit and their joy to know the mystery of his love. 5 The cross he bore is life and health, though shame and death to him, his people's hope, his people's wealth, their everlasting theme. Languages: English Tune Title: ST MAGNUS

Now the Green Blade Rises

Author: John M. C. Crum Hymnal: Voices United #186 (1996) Meter: 11.11.10.11 Topics: Easter 1 Year A; Easter 1 Year C First Line: Now the green blade rises from the buried grain Languages: English Tune Title: NOËL NOUVELET

Comes Mary to the grave

Author: Michael Perry (born 1942) Hymnal: Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.) #152b (1987) Meter: 6.7.7.11 Topics: Easter 1 The Upper Room Lyrics: 1 Comes Mary to the grave: no singing bird has spoken, nor has the world awoken, and in her grief all love lies lost and broken. 2 Says Jesus at her side, no longer Jesus dying, 'Why, Mary, are you crying?' She turns, with joy, 'My Lord! my love!' replying. 3 With Mary on this day we join our voices praising the God of Jesus' raising, and sing the triumph of his love amazing. Scripture: John 20:1-18 Languages: English Tune Title: EASTER MORNING

Crown Him with Many Crowns

Author: Godfrey Thring; Matthew Bridges Hymnal: Voices United #211 (1996) Meter: 6.6.8.6 D Topics: Easter 1 Year A Lyrics: 1 Crown him with many crowns, the Lamb upon his throne; hark! how the heavenly anthem drowns all music but its own! Awake, my soul, and sing of him who died for thee, and hail him as thy matchless King through all eternity. 2 Crown him the Lord of life, who triumphed o'er the grave, and rose victorious in the strife for those he came to save. His glories now we sing, who died and rose on high, who died eternal life to bring, and lives that death may die. 3 Crown him the Lord of peace, whose power a sceptre sways from pole to pole, that wars may cease, absorbed in prayer and praise. His reign shall know no end; and round his piercèd feet fair flowers of Paradise extend their fragrance ever sweet. 4 Crown him the Lord of love; behold his hands and side, rich wounds yet visible above, in beauty glorified. All hail, Redeemer, hail! for thou hast died for me: thy praise shall never, never fail throughout eternity. Languages: English Tune Title: DIADEMATA

Christ Is Alive

Author: Brian Wren Hymnal: Voices United #158 (1996) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Topics: Easter 1 Year A; Easter 1 Year C First Line: Christ is alive! Let Christians sing Lyrics: 1 Christ is alive! Let Christians sing. The cross stands empty to the sky. Let streets and homes with praises ring. Love, drowned in death, shall never die. 2 Christ is alive! No longer bound to distant years in Palestine, but saving, healing, here and now and touching every place and time. 3 In every insult, rift, and war where colour, scorn, or wealth divide, Christ suffers still, yet loves the more, and lives, where even hope has died. 4 Women and men, in age and youth, can feel the Spirit, hear the call, and find the way, the life, the truth, revealed in Jesus, freed for all. 5 Christ is alive, and comes to bring good news to this and every age, till earth and sky and ocean ring with joy, with justice, love and praise. Languages: English Tune Title: TRURO

Welcome, Happy Morning

Author: Venantius Fortunatus; John Ellerton Hymnal: Voices United #161 (1996) Meter: 6.5.6.5 D with refrain Topics: Easter 1 Year B; Easter 1 Year C First Line: Welcome, happy morning! age to age shall say Lyrics: 1 Welcome, happy morning! age to age shall say; hell today is vanquished, heaven is won today: come then, True and Faithful, now fulfil your word; this is your third morning: rise, O buried Lord! [Refrain:] Welcome, happy morning! age to age shall say, hell today is vanquished, heaven is won today! 2 Earth with joy welcomes, clothes itself for spring; greets with life reviving our returning king: flowers in every pasture, leaves on every bough; speak of sorrows ended, Jesus triumphs now! [Refrain] 3 Author and sustainer, source of life and breath; you for our salvation trod the path of death: Jesus Christ is living, God for evermore!, Now let all creation hail him and adore. [Refrain] 4 Loose our souls imprisoned, bound with Satan's chain; all that now is fallen, raise to life again! Show your face in brightness, shine the whole world through; hope returns with daybreak, life returns with you. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: HERMAS

Psalm 104: Send Forth Your Spirit, O Lord

Author: Christopher Walker, b. 1947 Hymnal: Journeysongs (2nd ed.) #86 (2003) Topics: Easter Vigil Reading 1; Easter Vigil Reading 1; Easter Vigil Reading 1 First Line: Bless the Lord, O my soul Refrain First Line: Send forth your Spirit, O Lord Scripture: Psalm 104:1-2 Languages: English Tune Title: [Bless the Lord, O my soul]

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Give Thanks

Author: Donald Fishel Hymnal: Voices United #179 (1996) Meter: Irregular Topics: Easter 1 Year C First Line: Jesus is Lord of all the earth Refrain First Line: Hallelujah, hallelujah. Give thanks to the risen Christ Languages: English Tune Title: ALLELUIA NO. 1

Hail, Glad Festival Day

Author: Venantius Fortunatus; Maurice Frederick Bell Hymnal: Voices United #163 (1996) Meter: Irregular Topics: Easter 1 Year B First Line: Lo, the fair beauty of earth Refrain First Line: Hail, glad festival day! Lyrics: [Refrain:] Hail, glad festival day! Blest day to be hallowed for ever, day wherein Christ arose, breaking the kingdom of death. [Easter:] 1 Lo, the fair beauty of earth, from the death of the winter arising, every good gift of the year now with its Saviour returns. [Refrain] 2 He who was nailed to the cross is God and the ruler of all things; all things created on earth worship the maker of all. [Refrain] 3 Mourning they laid you to rest, the author of life and creation; treading the pathway of death, life now bestowing on all. [Refrain] 4 God of all pity and power, let your word be assured to the doubting: light on the third day returns; rise, Son of God, from the tomb! [Refrain] [Ascension:] 1 Christ in his triumph ascends, who had vanquished the devil's dominion; bright is the woodland with leaves, brilliant the meadows with flowers. [Refrain] 2 Daily the loveliness grows, adorned with glory of blossom; heaven its gates now unbars, flinging its increase of light. [Refrain] 3 Jesus, the health of the word, enlighten our minds, great Redeemer, Son of the Father supreme, only-begotten of God! [Refrain] 4 Praise to the giver of good! O Lover and Author of concord, pour out your balm on our days; order our days in your peace. [Refrain] [Pentecost:] 1 Lo, in the likeness of fire, on those who await his appearing, he whom the Lord foretold suddenly, swiftly descends: [Refrain] 2 Forth to the faithful he comes with sevenfold mystical offering, pouring on all human souls infinite riches of God. [Refrain] 3 Hark! for in myriad tongues Christ's own, his chosen apostles, preach to the ends of the earth Christ and his wonderful works. [Refrain] 4 Praise to the Spirit of life, all praise to the fount of our being, light that now lightens all, life that in all now abides. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: SALVE, FESTA DIES

The day of resurrection!

Author: John of Damascus (c.675-749); J. M. Neale (1818-1866) Hymnal: Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.) #161 (1987) Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Topics: Easter 1 The Upper Room; Easter 1 The Bread of Life Lyrics: 1 The day of resurrection! come, spread the news abroad; the passover of gladness, the passover of God: from death to life eternal, from earth up to the sky, our Christ has brought us over with hymns of victory. 2 Now let the skies be joyful and earth sing back her praise; let all the nations worship the God of endless days: let all things seen and unseen their joyful music blend, for Christ the Lord has risen — our triumph knows no end! Languages: English Tune Title: ELLACOMBE

All creatures of our God and King

Author: Francis of Assisi (1182-1226); W. H. Draper (1855-1933) Hymnal: Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.) #13 (1987) Meter: 8.8.4.4.8.8 with alleluias Topics: Easter 1 The Upper Room Languages: English Tune Title: EASTER SONG

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