When this has been sung to the end, let the three respond in unison,
Jesus of Nazareth, the crucified, O heavenly one.
Then he,
He is not here; he has risen, as was foretold.
Go ye, announcing that he has risen from the dead.
Upon the utterance of this command, let the three turn to the choir and say,
Alleluia! the Lord is risen.
This said, let him, still remaining seated, say, as if calling them back, the antiphon,
Come, and see the place where the Lord lay.
Alleluia, Alleluia!
Having said this, however, let him rise and lift the veil, and show them the place empty of the cross, but the clothes, only, laid there with which the cross was wrapped. When they see this, let them set down the thuribles that they have carried within that same sepulchre, and take up the cloth and hold it up before the clergy, and, as if in testimony that the Lord has risen and is not now wrapped therein, let them sing this antiphon:
The Lord has risen from the tomb,
Who for us was crucified,