List of Easter hymns

Easter hymns are hymns dedicated to Eastertide, related to the resurrection of Jesus.

## List of Easter hymns

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Hymn  | Translation  | Text  | Tune  | Language  | Published  | Notes

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"Christ ist erstanden"  | Christ is risen  | anon.  | anon.  | German  | 1160  |
"Christ lag in Todesbanden"  | Christ lay in the bonds of death  | Martin Luther | Martin Luther and Johann Walter | German  | 1524  | melody based on Victimae paschali laudes
"Christ the Lord Is Risen Today"  |  | Charles Wesley | "Easter hymn"  | English  | 1739  |
"Christus ist erstanden! O tönt"  | Christ is risen! O sound  | Johann Weinzierl | Schniebel, Paul  | German  | 1826  | paraphrase of Victimae paschali laudes
"Gelobt sei Gott im höchsten Thron"  | Praised be God on highest throne  | Michael Weiße | Melchior Vulpius | German  | 1531 / 1609  | melody later
"Ihr Christen, singet hocherfreut"  | You Christians, sing in great joy  | Christoph Moufang | from Paris 1623  | German  | 1865  | based on O filii et filiae
"Lasst uns erfreuen"  | Let us rejoice  | anon.  |  | German  | 1623  |
"O Licht der wunderbaren Nacht"  | O light of the wonderful night  | Georg Thurmair | from Mainz, c. 1390  | German  | 1963  |
"Seht, er lebt"  | Look, he lives  | Lothar Zenetti | from Israel  | German  | 1973  |
"Thine Be the Glory, Risen Conquering Son"  |  | Edmond Louis Budry, translated by Richard Hoyle  | "Maccabaeus"  | English/French  | 1923  | Originally published in French as "À toi la gloire O Ressuscité"
"Wahrer Gott, wir glauben dir"  | True God, we believe You  | Christoph Bernhard Verspoell | Verspoell  | German  | 1810  |
"Ye Choirs of New Jerusalem"  |  | Robert Campbell | "St. Fulbert"  | English  | 1850  | Based on Chorus novae Ierusalem by Fulbert of Chartres

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (April 2019)

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Easter and its cycle

Lent|

| Pre-Lent|

* Septuagesima
* Sexagesima
* Quinquagesima

Carnival (Shrovetide)|

* Shrove Monday
* Shrove Tuesday
* Mardi Gras
* Holy Face of Jesus
* Fastelavn
* Maslenitsa

Lent proper|

* Ash Wednesday
* Great Lent
* Temptation of Christ
* First Sunday of Lent
* Ember days
* Laetare Sunday (Mothering Sunday)

Passiontide|

* Passion Sunday (Lenten veil, Lenten shrouds)
* Friday of Sorrows

Music|

* Ave Regina caelorum
* Passion (music)
* Passion hymns
* Stabat Mater

Holy Week|

| Palm Sunday|

* Triumphal entry into Jerusalem

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Ferias|

* Holy Monday
* Holy Tuesday
* Holy Wednesday

Triduum|

* Tenebrae

Maundy Thursday|

* Chrism Mass
* Last Supper
* Crotalus
* Art
* Farewell Discourse
* Mass of the Lord's Supper
* Foot washing
* Stripping of the Altar

Good Friday|

* Passion of Jesus
* Arma Christi
* Stations of the Cross
* Crucifixion of Jesus
* Descent from the Cross
* Lamentation
* Epitaphios
* Encomia
* Pietà
* Burial of Jesus
* Tomb of Jesus
* Easter Sepulchre
* Good Friday prayer
* for the Jews
* Gorzkie żale

Holy Saturday|

* Harrowing of Hell
* Święconka

Easter Vigil|

* Paschal candle
* Holy Fire
* Lumen Christi
* Exsultet
* Artos
* Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults

Traditions|

* Burning of Judas
* Processions

By location|

* Colombia
* Popayán
* Guatemala
* Italy
* Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto
* Ruvo di Puglia
* Malta
* Mexico
* Taxco
* Philippines
* Portugal
* Braga
* Spain
* Cuenca
* Málaga
* Salamanca
* San Cristóbal de La Laguna
* Santa Cruz de La Palma
* Seville
* Valladolid
* Viveiro
* Zamora

Easter|

| Day|

* Resurrection of Jesus
* Art
* Myrrhbearers
* Road to Emmaus
* Paschal Homily
* Sunrise service

Date|

* List of dates
* Calculation

Season|

| Liturgical features|

* Alleluia
* Pentecostarion
* Trikirion

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Octave|

| Bright Week|

* Easter Sunday
* Easter Monday
* Śmigus-dyngus
* Easter whip
* Easter Tuesday
* Wednesday
* Thursday
* Friday
* Saturday

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* Second Sunday of Easter
* Doubting Thomas
* Divine Mercy Sunday

* Radonitsa
* Third Sunday of Easter
* Fourth Sunday of Easter
* Mid-Pentecost
* Fifth Sunday of Easter
* Rogation days

Ascensiontide|

* Ascension of Jesus
* Art
* Feast of the Ascension
* Cenacle
* Novena
* Matthias the Apostle

Traditions|

* Basket
* Bonnet
* Bunny
* Bilby
* Easter seals
* Food
* Greeting
* Parade
* Pace Egg play
* Postcard
* Rouketopolemos
* Saitopolemos
* Scoppio del carro

Easter eggs|

* Dance
* Decorating
* in Slavic culture
* Rolling
* Hunt
* Osterbrunnen
* Tapping
* Tree
* Tossing

By country|

* Croatia
* Poland
* Ukraine

By country|

* Ethiopia and Eritrea
* Italy
* Latvia
* Poland

Pre-Christian|

* Ēostre

Music|

* Easter Oratorio
* I Will Mention the Loving-kindnesses
* Russian Easter Festival Overture
* Salzburg Easter Festival

Liturgical|

* Regina caeli
* Troparion
* Victimae paschali laudes

Cantatas|

* Bleib bei uns, denn es will Abend werden, BWV 6
* Christ lag in Todes Banden, BWV 4
* Der Friede sei mit dir, BWV 158
* Der Himmel lacht! Die Erde jubilieret, BWV 31
* Ein Herz, das seinen Jesum lebend weiß, BWV 134
* Erfreut euch, ihr Herzen, BWV 66
* Ich lebe, mein Herze, zu deinem Ergötzen, BWV 145

Hymns|

* Christ the Lord Is Risen Today
* Jesus Christ Is Risen Today
* O filii et filiae
* The Strife is O'er, the Battle Done

Choral music|

* Surrexit a mortuis

Film and TV|

* Films
* Television episodes

Pentecost|

| Season|

| Octave|

* Pentecost Sunday
* Whitsun
* Whit Monday
* Whit Tuesday
* Ember days
* Feast of Christ the Priest
* Trinity Sunday

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* Feast of Corpus Christi
* Feast of the Sacred Heart

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Hymns and songs for Easter

* List of Easter hymns

English|

* Alleluia! Sing to Jesus
* Blessed Easter
* Christ Is Risen! Christ Is Risen!
* Christ the Lord Is Risen Again!
* Christ the Lord Is Risen Today
* Easter Parade
* Good Christians All, Rejoice and Sing
* I Know That My Redeemer Lives
* Jesus Christ Is Risen Today
* Peter Cottontail
* The Strife is O'er, the Battle Done
* Thine Be the Glory
* This joyful Eastertide
* Ye Choirs of New Jerusalem
* Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones

German|

* Christ ist erstanden
* Christ lag in Todesbanden (Christ Jesus Lay in Death's Strong Bands)
* Christus ist erstanden! O tönt
* Das Grab ist leer, der Held erwacht
* Das ist der Tag, den Gott gemacht
* Erschienen ist der herrlich Tag (On Earth Has Dawned This Day of Days)
* Freu dich, du Himmelskönigin
* Gelobt sei Gott im höchsten Thron
* Heut triumphieret Gottes Sohn (Today in Triumph Christ Arose)
* Ihr Christen, singet hocherfreut
* Jesus Christus, unser Heiland, der den Tod überwand
* Lasst uns erfreuen
* Nun freue dich, du Christenheit
* Seht, der Stein ist weggerückt
* Seht, er lebt
* Wahrer Gott, wir glauben dir
* Wir wollen alle fröhlich sein (Now Glad of Heart Be Every One)

Latin|

* Aurora lucis rutilat
* Victimae paschali laudes
* O filii et filiae
* Pascha Nostrum

Other|

* Easta
* Gorzkie żale
* Jesus för världen givit sitt liv
* Le tue mani

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