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The Deacon, after incensing the book and the candle, proclaims the Easter Proclamation
The Easter Proclamation may be made, in the absence of a Deacon, by the Priest himselfor
Longer form of the Paschal Proclamation
(Exsultet) at the ambo or atalectern, with all standing and holding lighted candles in their
join-‐‑ing them to his ho-‐‑ly ones. This is the night, when
dazzling is the night for me, and full of glad-‐‑ness. The sanctifyingin
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Proclamation, the words Therefore, dearest friends up to the end of the invitation are omitted,
along with the greeting The Lord be with you.
The Proclamation may also be sung in the shorter form.
-‐‑ter-‐‑nal Fa-‐‑ther, and, pouring out his own dear Blood, wiped clean
Christ broke the prison bars of death and rose vic-‐‑to-‐‑rious
are wed to those of earth, and divine to the hu-‐‑man.
from the un-‐‑der-‐‑world. Our birth would have been no gain,
There-‐‑fore, O Lord, we pray you that this candle, hallowed to the
Exult, let them ex-‐‑ult, the hosts of heav-‐‑en, exult, let Angel
that he, who has been pleased to number me, though un-‐‑wor-‐‑thy,
had we not been re-‐‑deemed. O wonder of your hum-‐‑ble care
honor of your name, may persevere un-‐‑dimmed, to overcome
of Pass-‐‑o-‐‑ver, in which is slain the Lamb, the one true Lamb,
On this, your night of grace, O ho-‐‑ly Fa-‐‑ther, accept this candle, a
among the Le-‐‑vites, may pour into me his light un-‐‑shad-‐‑owed,
whose Blood anoints the door posts of be-‐‑liev-‐‑ers. This is the
for us! O love, O char-‐‑ity beyond all tell-‐‑ing, to ransom
a slave you gave œœ away œœ your Son! O tru-‐‑ly nec-‐‑es-‐‑sar-‐‑y sin of
an evening sacrifice of praise, this gift from your most holy
V. The œ Lord œœ be with you. R. And œ with œœ your spir-‐‑it.
be found still burning by the Morn-‐‑ing Star: the one Morning
from slavery in E-‐‑gypt and made them pass dry shod through
V. Lift up your hearts. R. We lift them up to the Lord.
Church. But now we know the praises of this pil-‐‑lar, which glow-‐‑
Star who nev-‐‑er sets, Christ your Son, who, coming back from
let all cor-‐‑ners of œœ the œ earth be glad, know-‐‑ing an end to gloom œœ and
the Red Sea. This is the night that with a pil-‐‑lar of fire
V. Let us give thanks to the Lord our God. R. It is right and just.
banished the dark-‐‑ness of sin. This is the night that even now,
O truly bless-‐‑ed night, wor-‐‑thy alone to know the time and
It is truly right and just, with ardent love of mind and heart and
di-‐‑vid-‐‑ed, yet nev-‐‑er dimmed by sharing of its light, for it is
throughout the world, sets Christian believers apart from world-‐‑ly
lives and reigns for ever and ever. R. Amen.
hour when Christ rose from the un-‐‑der-‐‑world! This is the night
fed by melt-‐‑ing wax, drawn out by moth-‐‑er bees to build a torch
with devoted service of our voice, to acclaim our God in-‐‑vis-‐‑i-‐‑ble,
vic-‐‑es and from the gloom of sin, lead-‐‑ing them to grace and
of which it is writ-‐‑ten: The night shall be as bright as day,
the almight-‐‑y Fa-‐‑ther, and Jesus Christ, our Lord, his Son, his
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