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Text: rCEL I Roman Missal

Re - j01Ce

heav - en - ly pow - ers,

Ex - ult all cre - a - tion a - round Go d' s throne!

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the trum -pet of sal - va - tion!

sing choirs of

gels!

Ra - diant ill the bright - ne s s of your King!

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J e - sus Christ, our King, 1S ns - en!

Re - joice, 0 earth, ill shin -ing splen - dor

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Christ has con -quered! Glo - ry fills you!

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ness van - ish - es for ev er!
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Re - j01Ce, 0 Moth - er Church! Ex ult ill glo ry!
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The Ris - en Sav -ior shines up - on

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ech - 0 -ing the might -y song of all God's peo - plel

For the private USE! of canters.

M.X. Mol.esk~ SJ

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Let this place re - sound with JOY,

My dear - est friends,

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join me III ask - ing God for mer - cy,

stand - ing with me III this ho - ly light,

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grace to sing his Eas -ter prais - es.

that he may glVe his W1 - worth - y min - is - ter

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The Lord be with you.

And al- so with you.

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Lift up your hearts.

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We lift them up to the Lord. Let us glVe thanks to

the Lord our God.
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It is right to give him thanks and praise.
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It is tru - ly right that with full hearts and minds
and VOl - ces
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the all - pow - er - fu1

Fa - ther,

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and his on -ly Son, our Lord J es - us Christ.

F or Christ has ran -somed us with his blood,

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and paid for us the pnce of Ad - am's sin

to our e - ter - nal Fa - ther!

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This

lS our pass - 0 - ver feast,

when Christ,

the true Lamb lS slain,

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whose blood con - se - crates the homes of all be - liev ers.

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This lS the night when first you saved our fa thers:

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freed

the

peo - ple

of Is - ra - e1 from

their

sla - ve - ry

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 and led them dry - shod through the sea.
38 This lS the night

when the pil - 1ar of fire

de - stroyed the dark - ness of sin!

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This

lS the night

when Christ - lans eve - ry - where

washed clean of sin

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and freed from all de file ment
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li - ness.

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the chains of death

when J e - sus Christ broke

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"'iNhat good would life have been to us

and rose tri -urn -phant from the grave.

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Fa-ther, how won-der-ful your care for us!

had Christ not come as our re-deem-er?

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How bound -less your mer -ci -ful love!

To ran-som a slave you gave a - way your Son.

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0 ne - ces - sa - ry Sill of A - dam, 52

Most bless - ed of all nights,

which gained for us

so great a Re -dee - mer!

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cho -sen by God to see Christ ri -sing from the dead!

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Of this night scrip - ture says:

"The night will be clear as day:

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The pow - er of this ho - ly night
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it will be - come my light,

my joy"

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dis - pells all e - vil, re - stores lost ill - no - cence,

brings mourn - ers JOY;

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it casts out hat - red brings us peace,

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and hum - bles earth - ly pride.

Night tru ly blessed when hea - ven is wed - ded to earth

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and man is re con ciled with God! 61

There - fore,

hea - ven - ly Fa - ther,

ill the JOY

of this

night

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re - ceive our eve -rung sac -ri -fice of praise,

your Chur - ch's sol - emn of - fer -ing.

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Ac - cept this Eas - ter can - dle,

a flame di - vi - ded but un - dimmed,

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a pi! - 1ar of fire that glows to the hon - or of
God.
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and con - tin - ue brave -ly bum - ing

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May the Mom -ing Star which ne - ver sets

to dis -peU the dark-ness of this nigh I

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find this flame still bum - mg: $ I ~ .P g ~ r
Christ, the Mom - ing Star, 79

and shed his peace -ful light on all man -kind,

who came back from the dead,

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your Son who lives and reigns for e - ver and e - ver.

A - men.