Regina Caeli

Regina caeli laetáre, allelúia:

Quia quem meruisti portare, allelúia:

Resurréxit, sicut dixit, allelúia:

Ora pro nobis Deum, allelúia.

Regina caeli is one of the four great Marian antiphons of the Catholic Church, sung especially during the Easter season. It’s a hymn of joy celebrating the Resurrection of Christ and Mary’s share in that triumph. 

Translation of the Latin text

• Regina caeli, laetare, alleluia → Queen of Heaven, rejoice, alleluia

• Quia quem meruisti portare, alleluia → For He whom you merited to bear, alleluia

• Resurrexit, sicut dixit, alleluia → Has risen, as He said, alleluia

• Ora pro nobis Deum, alleluia → Pray for us to God, alleluia

Circumstances of composition

Casteels wrote this piece in 1983 for the Brussels Nausikäa choir of which he was then the pianist accompanist. Its Music Director was then Lou Van Cleynenbreugel, a childhood friend born in the same city of Tienen.

Completion of the composition 

1-I-1983

Score follower

see link #1

Recording

page 54 of the green cover logbook #3