"Jesus Christ Is Risen Today" from the Notre Dame Basilica

[@0276boy]

I can never get through singing this at Easter Mass; I completely choke up by the third verse. "..where the angels ever sing!" Crying now.

[@timgriffin715]

me too.

[@JanetMarieRose73]

I am crying knowing that we can't sing this hymn in person together

[@dongrainer6405]

I'll be so happy when we can sing this again at Easter. Really brings tears to the eyes!!

[@Richard-vq7ud]

The traditional hymns are so powerful and brilliantly written. Im hoping the contemporary piano, guitar, drums fad dies.

[@swt32567]

@@Richard-vq7ud I'm with you on that. I love the traditional pipe organ. It makes the hymns sound sound so rich.

[@tambrosia]

BRAVO This hymn brings tears to my eyes One of the greatest hymns ever written to pay homage to Our Lord and Savior. To all men and women who enter the life dedicated to HIM as priests, sisters, lay ministers, THANK YOU Pax+

[@stevepipenger4651]

AMEN!!!!!

[@guyNbluejeans]

I was baptized on Easter back in the late '60s, so tomorrow I'm a-gonna go outside my comfort zone and attend a local church basically to just thank the Good Lord for doing what He did. Don't like singing around others ... and I worry that my breath will stink and that people won't like my face but, nevertheless, a sinner like me needs to do this anyway.

[@basicaa]

“Rejoice together, all hearts! Be gone, all pain and sorrow! The Savior lives and reigns in you!” - J.S. Bach

[@williamburke8242]

Johann Sebastian Bach

[@roberthightower9889]

I watched this video when it was posted in 2007 and still come back to it! What a beautiful faith we have

[@jimmeriden]

one of my two all-time favorite hymns.....(the other being How Great Thou Art)......Easter wasn''t Easter without singing that....tears streaming down my face as the organist nailed the volume peddle for the last verse.

[@MrOrthopedia]

Right?

[@jimmeriden]

FOR SURE MAN !!

[@jetboy33]

@JewelBlueIbanez I must have missed the "hooting" and "cat-calling", but it's not uncommon at special masses like this to, say, give the choir a round of applause at the end of mass. Nothing sacrilegious about it. And to my Protestant brothers and sisters in Christ...may you have a wonderful Easter! God Bless...from a Catholic. Cheers

[@samko59]

HE IS RISEN INDEED! GLORIOUS PERFORMANCE! ABSOLUTELY AWESOME!

[@donaldzahnke4300]

Samuel Manka amen

[@mkl62]

I am an ELCA Lutheran from South Carolina. I play the piano & organ. On this Easter (April 12), we sang this as our opening hymn. We also sang it at another Lutheran Church that I attended later as the opener. It is #365 in Evangelical Lutheran Worship. Just thought I'd share.

[@stevepipenger4651]

Why not come home to the Roman Catholic Church?

[@nemochicky4697]

This is the perfect processional hymn on Easter Sunday for all Christian services. And I bet Father Greg was excited to be ordained

[@octavegeigen4]

If only more people felt the way you do! God be with you!

[@tpc326]

@mrstjs I was a member of the LCMS and I am now a Catholic. On one hand it was a difference as wide as the Grand Canyon, but I realized it was a simple step. As beautiful as the Catholic church is, it is bigger and more beautiful on the inside than on the outside. God bless you.

[@MrDomer64]

May the Church, and specifically the Congregation of Holy Cross, be forever blessed with many good and holy men!

[@thomashogan4908]

They were my high school teachers, St Anthony Boy's School, Long Beach Ca. Oh Lord, those golden days.

[@alijeannem]

This is absolutely beautiful. Thank you for posting. I was raised Presbyterian and enter the Catholic Church last year intially through learning about the beauty of the Church's teaching about Natural Family Planning and then reading 'Rome Sweet Home' by Scott & Kimberly Hahn. Scott Hahn was a Presbyterian minister who converted to Catholicism. I had many of the same concerns about the Catholic Church that others have references below, and this book helped me immensely. Happy Easter to all!

[@michaelbaumert4501]

alijeannem 8 years after you, we’re in the same boat! Nearly the same story as well. Blessed Easter upcoming to you

[@carolineharwell793]

I wish my Evangelical Christian husband who is Southern Baptist was open to Dr. Hahn’s book. But he believes he was deceived by Satan, the Pope is the antiChrist and Catholics are not Christians

[@jw870206]

Mass of Ordination...such a sight to behold. I've been to two. Both of them were for cousins of mine.

[@jimmeriden]

mass ordination on Easter Sunday? ....I heard of baptisms and maybe confirmations on Easter Vigil....but not ordinations....I guess...maybe so. These days a "mass" ordination is two.

[@nancyayers6355]

I stumbled totally unexpectedly into the Anglican Church. Being raised Protestant, when I attended the Christmas Eve Mass, I was really impressed by the ceremony, the lights and the glorious music!! I loved my childhood church and still do, but that first Anglican service was too beautiful to describe! The following January, I met with a priest and was soon confirmed as a member!

[@SCS9870]

Beautiful song -- one of my favorites as a Catholic.

[@Incasport]

That's True ..!! I am Catholic but i like to visit your Church Methodist love the people and music too Blessing you heart..

[@debstaton1022]

Beautiful Easter Hymn

[@basicaa]

Christ the Lord is risen! Alleluia!

[@Angelalex242]

Why seek ye the living amongst the dead? He is not here, He is Risen!

[@johnhardman1463]

I just love this video, I have played it many times and i too have tears in my eyes.

[@basyoutubefavorites5722]

A Beautiful and BLESSED Easter to ALL! Christ has RISEN ! May your day be as bright as the sun He made ! B.A.

[@jimmeriden]

ALLELUJAH

[@katiewilliams5643]

I absolutely love this miss the basilica

[@LordNikku]

How could you not like this? Happy Easter, Christ is Risen!

[@Murph3579]

Magnificent University of Notre Dame!

[@nsimpson76]

I got goosebumps...so beautiful!

[@Teufelchen57]

Wunderbar ! Ein tolles Lied/Osterhymne wunderbar vorgetragen von einem Kathedralchor !

[@BloomingElephants]

This is so beautiful and powerful. One of my favourite things about Easter is attending mass and singing such inspiring hymns. Thanks for the video!

[@tabbycatperson]

beautiful. thanks for posting

[@rachilena]

@d10sturg they were clapping for a newly-ordained priest who was recessing from the church for the first time. while i usually don't like clapping during Mass, i'd say this was appropriate.

[@skategurl1102]

Happy Easter!God bless all of you!

[@snowsorceress]

This gave me chills! I can't imagine how it was being there! Thank you for sharing :)

[@churchorganfan]

I had a dream they sang this as a processional on the 4th of July!

[@thesmithersy]

On traitor's day! In honesty, Easter Hymn has been used for other tunes

[@53lyric1]

The author, Charles Wesley, was first an Anglican then became a Methodist. He wrote, "Christ The Lord Is Risen Today". It is a separate song from "Jesus Christ Is Risen Today", which is an anthem of the Catholic Church from the Middle Ages or earlier. The anthem's tune has been lost, and I would like to rediscover it or hope someone else can. The words are different too. Also the anthem has a more somber melody throughout.

[@zemotheon12987]

It very much resembles ancient Roman protocol for going to trial court with the emperor. Its cool because when you wanted to go into the Emperor's presence, you would go to a Bascilica, or Imperial courthouse. It is foreign to me, but to Roman Christians, it must have really made sense for them. For them, it was being in the court of God and that was the best way to remind them of that. Its so beautifully majestic and the choir sounded so beautiful.

[@zaneshark]

One Church, One Creed, One God.

[@srdude5491]

At the moment it's almost Christmas , but this arrangement & hymn sounds good anytime! Organist/organ is excellent.

[@DavidHarrisonmusic]

Never in my life have I heard this sung in such a low key!

[@edwardfranks5215]

the words come from a Bohemian latin hymn; the 4th stanza was added by Wesley and the tune is Anglican from 1708 Lyrica Davidica.

[@manga12]

Finaly after three videos I found one where the keying is not fast like playing camptown races, If you ever get to make it to the basilica its worth the trip I been there many times not for mass but to go inside to pray, while visiting notre dame, and of course after the sunburst road race that takes place the first week of june every year and finishes on the fifty yard line of the football field its epic, and you have hundreds of people cheering you one as you finish.

[@patwestwood]

Praise the Lord.....

[@simonjohn6857]

I play it in C sharp major. It keeps the choir on their toes!

[@phildaddy4]

CHRIST IS RISEN ALLELUIA

[@williamburke8242]

LYRICS: Jesus Christ is risen today, Alleluia! Our triumphant holy day, Alleluia! Who did once, upon the cross, Alleluia! Suffer to redeem our loss, Alleluia! Hymns of praise then let us sing, Alleluia! Unto Christ, our heavenly King, Alleluia! Who endured the cross and grave, Alleluia! Sinners to redeem and save, Alleluia! But the pain which He endured, Alleluia! Our salvation hath procured, Alleluia! Now above the sky He's king, Alleluia! Where the angels ever sing, Alleluia! Sing we to our God above, Alleluia! Praise eternal as His love, Alleluia! Praise Him, all you heavenly host, Alleluia! Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, Alleluia!

[@arro5393]

i was just there a couple of hours ago. beautiful campus, beautiful football. hopefully i will go there in a couple of years...

[@CatholicForever1]

THAT IS A TON OF PRIESTS!!!!!! I'm very impressed!

[@alwellus]

Ordinations bring them out of the woodwork! These may be priests of the Holy Cross congregation who staff ND - and if so, the newly ordained are members of that Congregation. Priests of the local Diocese would be ordained in the Diocese's cathedral in South Bend or Ft. Wayne's co-cathedral, since it's a combo diocese.

[@cherylmarie49]

I always loved this version of that hymn . Does anyone know the choir directer at the time this was filmed. ? ITs very important that I find out. !!!

[@shaunmckiernan8825]

@@cherylmarie49 It would have been Dr. Andrew McShane or Dr. Gail Walton. Gail passed around this time, so I'm not sure exactly. They worked very closely together. Andy succeeded her.

[@cherylmarie49]

I know the original source of this hymn was protestant, but I remember it being played at and Easter Sunday High Mass at the Saint Louis Cathedral back in the early sixties, before John the 23rd and the ecumenical council.

[@MrSolarsphinx]

this song has no business slapping so hard

[@trixtwin19]

@oofahman To me the most important thing that the Bible says is in the Gospel of St.John, chapter 3 and verses 16 and 17, That WHOEVER believes in Jesus will be saved, and that He did not come to condemn, but to save. It does not differentiate between the various branches of the church. All those, whether Catholic, Quaker, Methodist, Baptist, or any other of the many Christian groups, who put their faith in Jesus can find salvation

[@joanneoneill8353]

wow Tom, you are tough! I can't make it through the first sentence! I am mush at this hymn

[@Firewoman888]

Alleluah, He is risen, Alleluah

[@edwardfranks5215]

Allelulia,, Sing to Jesus, and Come down o love divine are standout hymns of many borrowed by Catholics. After all the theology is the same. glad to see Catholcis singing. German Catholics sure do because Germans, Protestants and Catholics have a choral tradition of congregatioanl singing.

[@snowsorceress]

That's gorgeous. That must have been SO beautiful being there! I like the key this is in, the regular key is WAY too high.

[@carwashslayer4235]

This is the key of B flat major and it sounds nicer In my opinion

[@eddiemag1799]

It's called Basilica of the Sacred Heart on the campus of the University of Notre Dame.

[@ataramprat]

I am a Lutheran but this video goes to show just how close our two faiths are! Well, we share the same faith...just differing politics.

[@verbisti]

Normally in my country we always clap to new married couples at the end of the marriage ceremony. We don't do it by new priests, but I think it's great - it's his "marriage". I would clap too.

[@churchorganfan]

this would sound good at our church

[@Gene4310]

They are happy!!!!

[@llarzelere]

I love this song. We used to play it at Easter with a trumpet trio, a fair amount of staccato on the organ, and at 112 bpm. Kept it from sounding like funeral music. :)

[@edwardfranks5215]

The Wesley brothers were priests in the Church of England to the day they died. They were part of an evangelical movement called Methodism which did not break from the C of E until 1805. The hymn is Anglican and the music was written by Ralph Vaughn Williams. The RC Church has incorporated many Protestant hymns because congregational singing in the vernacular was not common until after Vatican II except for benediciton hymns/

[@edwardfranks5215]

Edward Franks I correct myself. I think Williams arranged it, not wrote the music. .

[@Cv8nswr0]

+Edward Franks: Ralph Vaughn Williams, the great English Composer, helped with putting hymn books together for the church. Ironically, Williams did not believe in life after death.

[@cherylmarie49]

+Edward Franks They sang this hymn in my Catholic Parish in Miami Oklahoma in the fifties.> I really am quite fond of this version.

[@Cv8nswr0]

Your saying then that Arvo Part is not the author. He stole the hymn and gave his name as the original author. Hardly smacks of a hymn in style. Find the original hymn and post it and I will believe you. As of today I do not.

[@Cv8nswr0]

Inspiring Hymn on the Resurrection.

[@Whiteshadowz]

Thanks be to God alleluia.... alleluia...

[@churchorganfan]

I love this tune in B Flat. Those of you who said this is the WORSE key ever, screw you. This key is the BEST key to play this hymn in and sounds the happiest in this key.

[@Andrewcarey87]

for special occisation (spelling).....they do that in my Diocese too after ordaination in the Saginaw Diocese is where I'm from. Archbishop Carlson who was once Bishop Carlson has ordained like 11 men to the priesthood so now he's in St. Louis as Archbishop of St. Louis and now we have Bishop Joseph Cistone.

[@kksd2]

Wow, over 100 priests there! No wonder we don't have many in California !

[@cherylmarie49]

I was an Alter server in three differenet parishs with many different priests and pastors and none of them ever trid to molest me or any of my fellow servers.

[@kensingtonpalace]

they had just ordained priests and were clapping for them. also the end of the hymn was quite moving...clapping ensues.

[@edwardfranks5215]

The words come from a Bohemian 14th century 11-verse hymm Christus resurrexit hodie!! The music is by Vaughn Williams! Look it up in Wiki

[@mrstjs]

@tpc326 That's really interesting. I'm LCMS (attend a very confessional, liturgical church).God bless you too.

[@mrstjs]

I love the Catholic church, and I'm a Lutheran.

[@thomashogan4908]

Come on over.

[@AsksOneThing]

I think that people were cheering the newly ordained as they passed.

[@steckman99]

@Jonnie Rose Thanks for the clarification.!

[@05Forenza]

The single note runs on the organ. That part is completely omitted in Lutheran hymnals.

[@serviodeo]

@TheLordOden They do use brass (trumpets,french horn, and a Tuba) for the Easter Vigil. And of course the organ.

[@churchorganfan]

I hear this when I am driving trolley in the summer!

[@randyweiland]

1 Parish, 2 Priests, 5 years.....0 problems with myself, or any of the other boys my age to my knowledge. (and back then it was only boys)

[@williamdrybread8925]

All that shit is a direct result of some beezzelbub motherfucker . Pay No Mind To CORNDOG LIES. It's not for us to judge, but never fear, ALL SHALL BE MADE RIGHT.

[@SamCherubin]

We are lucky to even have Freedom of Religion so I would keep quiet all of you. You should be thankful we have freedoms like that.

[@rachilena]

@priest008 You should look up other photos of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart at Notre Dame. It is one of the most beautiful churches I have ever been in. This video was taken at a very strange angle. The tabernacle is stunning, and you totally miss it in this video!

[@halberdierv2]

Alleluia!

[@hoasjhdfiadsf]

ha. glad to hear it bud.

[@kksd2]

@ConejosGuy There will always be anti-Catholics, and Catholic Bashers ... there were 3 nuns at a major league baseball game with their nun's attire which seemed to block some of the spectators view, the nuns were listening to those annoyed "lets never go to a game with Catholics, I hate Catholics .. after hearing this through the game, the Mother Superior turned around and told one of the spectators "Why don't you GO TO HELL! There's NO Catholics There !"

[@samuel010850]

This is a time for listening to music inspired by the unseen power of God yet manifests itself here. The video in my view reflects the performers intention to share the good news on this wideworld forum. Criticism of such work should be independent and should be done privately, via email if possible. It is a time for celebration. As for the "person" with arms pointed upwards, can we just accept this person as the orchestra conductor?

[@53lyric1]

It isn't. It's Methodist, written by Charles Wesley. All Christians should feel welcome to sing all Christian songs, disregarding denominations.

[@williamdrybread8925]

Are you trying to tell me Methodists are something outside of CHRISTIANS⁉⁉ If you ars, I'll definitely beg to differ. If you want to fight about it, I'm open to that, too🖕

[@tomnichol7655]

[@highsire]

@ConejosGuy thank you, god bless

[@jefferee2002]

How can I keep from singing!

[@pipeup1]

@MrMaksimchuk Well I don't claim to be any type of expert on what bishops do with their croziers!! But I always understood the rule to be that because the crozier symbolises juristiction only the diocesan ordinary or the metropolitan carries a crozier. A prior/abbot carries it closed to show he only has juristiction in his priory,etc. If you see a procession with all the bishops carrying croziers I'd say that would be rare! But any liturgy experts please clarify :-)

[@churchorganfan]

I like how the guys all the ''Alleluia'' parts

[@srdude5491]

@ nate12387--agreed--I was a server for years & a Master of Cermonies at one Christmas event & I have to say that all priests I served under were on the straight & narrow...

[@steckman99]

I may be wrong about this, but I think its other form "Christ The Lord is Risen Today" is an Episcopalian hymn. Again, I could be wrong.

[@mrstjs]

@ConejosGuy I agree. I'm Lutheran and love the Catholics church.

[@bigphot]

they where clapping for the newly ordained priests.

[@manga12]

If you think this is good, you should hear the music at this dioceses cathedral in fort wayne, they are not all professional, but they have a huge organ and an orchestra for special masses, like chrism mass, christmas, easter, and ordanations, as well as other special concerts. I tell you it's soo loud you can sing at the top of your lungs and you cant hear yourself sing at times. Though I think notre dame has a larger set of pipes.

[@pipeup1]

Funny how the His Grace the Archbishop processes out with his Crozier backwards. He must have thought he was a Prior all of a sudden :-)

[@cbsteffen]

I agree. This hymn is more commonly played in C Major, but sometimes B Flat Major sounds better.

[@churchorganfan]

hymn 122 in our book!

[@926jacky]

jajajajajajajajaja that is funny, i like this kinds of jokes..

[@williamdrybread8925]

SUPP with you, a squirrel❗🖕

[@mburns8395]

You are correct if the Bishop is not in his own Diocese he carrys the crozier backwards

[@LUIS-fk2py]

Sorry !! Its Catholic But Does't matter We are All Christians right..! like Methodist church too .Blessings

[@williamdrybread8925]

YES, WE ARE MY BROTHER IN CHRIST.🕆🕆🕆🕆

[@mj6493]

You're both right. Charles Wesley wrote the 4th verse.

[@ballertim87]

agree ... no need to clap DURING the hymn. redic

[@AttorneyCJones]

@AttorneyCJones I do apologize for my rather snarky way of saying "This woman shouldn't be doing that." JesusThroughMary is absolutely right - the Sacred Liturgy does not belong to the cantor to just do whatever she darn well pleases, nor does it belong to the Priest to allow her to do whatever she darn well pleases. WHATEVER the reason is. Catholics are smart, they will figure out when to sing.