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The Choir of King's College Cambridge:
Sylvia McNair exquisitely performs the much-loved aria from Messiah:
The Lessons Appointed for Use on
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Bonus: Rick Steves takes us on a fascinating tour of unusual European Easter customs:
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The Kyiv Symphony and Chorus perform the joyous Easter hymn at Northland Church in Longwood, Florida, about ten years ago, with Matthew McMurrin conducting:
From Eucharistic Prayer A in the Book of Common Prayer:
Holy and gracious Father: In your infinite love you made us
for yourself, and, when we had fallen into sin and become
subject to evil and death, you, in your mercy, sent Jesus
Christ, your only and eternal Son, to share our human
nature, to live and die as one of us, to reconcile us to you, the
God and Father of all.
He stretched out his arms upon the cross, and offered himself,
in obedience to your will, a perfect sacrifice for the whole
world.
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Therefore we proclaim the mystery of faith:
Christ has died.
Christ is risen.
Christ will come again.
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I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth.
And though worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God.
For now is Christ risen from the dead, the first-fruits of them that sleep.
