# Vespers' own antiphon for the same "Suffragium Paschale" substitution
# described in lauds-suffrage-paschale.yml's own header — shares that
# file's versicle/response and collect, but its own distinct antiphon
# ("Crucem sanctam súbiit..."), live-verified against Divinum Officium
# (Monastic Tridentinum 1617), Vespers live query, 2026-04-20 (a plain
# Eastertide feria). English antiphon translation is this project's own
# (the reference engine's own English-language render leaves this
# particular antiphon untranslated, Latin-only) — status left `draft`
# for the English text specifically pending a better-sourced translation.
id: vespers-suffrage-paschale
text:
  la: |
    Ant. Crucem sanctam súbiit, qui inférnum confrégit; accínctus est poténtia, surréxit die tértia, allelúja.
    V. Dícite in natiónibus, allelúja.
    R. Quia Dóminus regnávit a ligno, allelúja.
    Orémus.
    Deus qui pro nobis Fílium tuum Crucis patíbulum subíre voluísti, ut inimíci a nobis expélleres potestátem: concéde nobis fámulis tuis; ut resurrectiónis grátiam consequámur.
    Per eúmdem Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum Fílium tuum, qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
    R. Amen.
  en: |
    Ant. He bore the holy Cross, who broke the gates of hell; he was girded with power, and rose again on the third day, alleluia.
    V. Say among the heathen, alleluia.
    R. That the Lord reigneth from the tree, alleluia.
    Let us pray.
    O God, who didst send thy Son to suffer death for us upon the Cross, that thou mightest deliver us from the power of the enemy: grant unto us thy servants to be made partakers of his Resurrection.
    Through the same Jesus Christ, thy Son, Our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
    R. Amen.
status:
  la: verified
  en: draft