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Christus factus est

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General information

This text is used both as a gradual and, during the triduum, as an antiphon in place of the responsory.

In the modern Graduale Romanum, this text is the Gradual for Passion (Palm) Sunday and The Exultation of the Holy Cross (September 14). In the extraordinary or ‘Tridentine’ rite, this text is the gradual for the Mass of Maundy Thursday, as well as for the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross.

It also provides the antiphon for the Benedictus at the office of Lauds and Vespers on Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday: on Holy Saturday the text is used in full, on Good Friday ending at the word crucis, and on Maundy Thursday ending at usque ad mortem.

Settings by composers

Felice Anerio (a 4, specified as gradual)
Giovanni Matteo Asola
- a 3 (full text)
- a 4 (full)
Anton Bruckner (a 4, gradual)
Pompeo Cannicciari (a 4, full)
João de Deus Castro Lobo antifona para 5 feria (Good Friday version, with orchestra)
Johann Ernst Eberlin (a 4, full)

Hernando Franco (a 4, full)
Fabio Fresi (a 4, full)
José Maurício Nunes Garcia para 4ta, 5ta & 6ta (with endings for all holyweek offices, SATB & organ)
Gregorian chant
Jacob Handl a 4
Johann Michael Haydn
Emerico Lobo de Mesquita (SATB & Organ, Good Friday text)
Martín de Villanueva

Text and translations

Latin text

Christus factus est pro nobis obediens
usque ad mortem, mortem autem crucis.

Versus vel Responsorius
Propter quod et Deus exaltavit illum et dedit illi nomen,
quod est super omne nomen.

English translation

Christ became obedient for us unto death,
even to the death, death on the cross.

Verse (or Respond, in the case of the Holy Saturday antiphon)
Therefore God exalted Him and gave Him a name
which is above all names.

Spanish translation

Cristo se hizo obediente por nosotros
hasta la muerte, muerte en la cruz.

German translation

Christus ist für uns gehorsam geworden
bis zum Tode, ja bis zum Tode am Kreuze.

Responsum
Darum hat Gott ihn erhöht und ihm einen Namen gegeben,
der über alle Namen ist.

French translation

Le Christ s'est fait pour nous obéissant juqu'à la mort,
et à la mort de la croix.

Répons
C'est pourquoi Dieu l'a exalté, et lui a donné le Nom
qui est au-dessus de tout nom.

Danish translation