Ad caenam agni providi

Ad coenam agni providi is the office hymn at Vespers from Low Sunday to Ascension. The 1632 Breviary replaced it with a drastically rewritten version, Ad regias Agni dapes.

Settings by composers

Anonymous SAT Guillaume Dufay ABB Johann Stadlmayr SATB Stanislav Surin Unison

Tomás Luis de Victoria SATB, an older variant of this text André Vierendeels SATB (v.1 only)

Text and translations

Latin text 1. Ad cenam Agni providi, stolis salutis candidi, post transitum maris Rubri Christo canamus principi. 2. Cuius corpus sanctissimum in ara crucis torridum, sed et cruorem roseum gustando, Deo vivimus. 3. Protecti paschae vespero a devastante angelo, de Pharaonis aspero sumus erepti imperio. 4. Iam pascha nostrum Christus est, agnus occisus innocens; sinceritatis azyma qui carnem suam obtulit. 5. O veram digna hostia, per quam franguntur tartara, captíva plebs redimitur, redduntur vitæ præmia! 6. Consurgit Christus tumulo, victor redit de barathro, tyrranum trudens vinculo et paradisum reserans. 7. Esto perenne mentibus paschale, Iesu, gaudium et nos renatos gratiae tuis triumphis aggrega 8. Iesu, tibi sit gloria, qui morte victa praenites, cum Patre et almo Spíritu, in sempiterna saecula. Amen.

English translation requested

External links

• J. M. Neale translation at Preces latinae
• Ad coenam agni providi - Victoria by Cancioneros Musicales Españoles