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For Cantor, Small Ensemble or Choir - A set of complete responses, with antiphon, to the readings for the Easter Vigil. The antiphon is modeled on music from Taizé: a simple, meditative refrain which may be enhanced on each repetition with harmony, vocal descants, and varied instrumental parts. Graphic inserts of the antiphon are available in the extras. The recording features all of the responses as well as the antiphon with descants.
ANTIPHON: Make our darkness light, O bright Morning Star!
For the word of the Lord is right,
and all his works are sure.
He loves righteousness and justice;
the loving-kindness of the Lord fills the whole earth.
There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,
the holy habitation of the Most High.God is in the midst of her;
she shall not be overthrown;
God shall help her at the break of day.
I will bless the LORD who gives me counsel;
my heart teaches me, night after night.
I have set the LORD always before me;
because he is at my right hand I shall not fall.
The Lord is my strength and my refuge;
The Lord has become my Savior.
This is my God and I will praise him,
The God of my people and I will ex-alt him.
I was glad when they said to me,
“Let us go to the house of the LORD.”
Now our feet are standing
within your gates, O Jerusalem.
As the deer longs for the water-brooks,
so longs my soul for you, O God.
My soul is athirst for God, athirst for the living God;
when shall I come to appear before the presence of God?
Therefore you shall draw water with re-joicing
from the springs of sal-vation.
And on that day you shall say,
Give thanks to the Lord and call upon his Name.
You brought me up, O LORD, from the dead;
you restored my life as I was going down to the grave.
Sing to the LORD, you servants of his;
give thanks for the remembrance of his holiness.
Sing to the Lord a new song,
for he has done marvelous things.
With his right hand and his holy arm
has he won for himself the victory.
ANTIPHON: Make our darkness light, O bright Morning Star!