Communion Antiphon: Pascha nostrum | St. Lawrence Easter Vigil 2024

Recorded live at the Easter Vigil on March 30, 2024 at the St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center at the University of Kansas
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Not much can be said of this Antiphon - it is among the most iconic chants in the repertory and speaks well to itself and its place in the Mass.
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One point of symbolic trivia is that it shares the same mode as the Introit for the Requiem Mass: Mode VI, and is thus musically somewhat similar.* And so, in this peculiar link between life and death, we have hope in the Resurrection. The Requiem Introit reads: "Requiem aeternam, dona eis, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis." (Eternal rest grant to them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine on them.) And this rest that is hoped for is found only in Christ, our Passover, whose sacrifice opens to us the gates of heaven that we pray the deceased will be granted entrance to. Does this mean every Mode VI piece corresponds to Pascha nostrum or Requiem aeternam? Not necessarily, but I find the link here very convincing.
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*Credit to Ecole Gregorienne for first pointing this out, I can't remember which video he speaks of it in, but do check out his work here: / @ecolegregorienne3062