This work was published by Ionian Arts in 1998 (revised in 2001) and is dated Easter 1980. However, there are three distinct versions.
- 1980 manuscript bears no dedication and is scored for 2-pt mixed voices, oboe, English horn, and organ
- 1982 manuscript bears no dedication and is scored for 2-pt mixed voices, 2 unspecified instruments (notated at pitch), and organ
- 1986 manuscript is dedicated to David Hurd and scored for 2-pt mixed voices, 2 trumpets, and organ; trumpet 2 (or English horn), trumpet 1 (or oboe).
There is an extensive note on the inside front cover speaking to the genesis of this work. The melody is taken from the Liber Usualis.
Lyrics
Ad regias Agni dapes, stolis amicti candidis
post transitum maris Rubri, Christo canamus principi.
Divina cujus caritas sacrum propinat sanguinem,
almique membra corporis amor sacerdo immolat.
Victor subactis caritas inferis,
trophaea Christus explicat et coeloque aperto.
—Latin Hymn, 1632
At the Lamb’s royal banquet, clothed in white robes, and with the journey through the Red Sea behind us, let us sing to Christ our King. His divine love gives us his sacred blood to drink, and his love, priest-like, offers us his loving body as our sacrificial food. Now triumphant over hell Christ displays his trophies and opens to us the gates of heaven.
—Translation by Jason A. Anderson
