Buona Pasqua! Happy Easter!

Resurrection by Arturo Di Modica

On behalf of everyone here at Il Regno, I want to wish you all a very Happy Easter! In celebration, I'm posting The Tomb, a traditional Sicilian prayer reprinted from Prayers and Devotional Songs of Sicily, edited and translated into English by Peppino Ruggeri, Legas, 2009, p. 94-95. The accompanying photo of The Resurrection by Sicilian-American sculptor Arturo Di Modica was taken at the Italian American Museum in Little Italy, New York in 2010. Buona Pasqua!

The Tomb
Holy tomb, which often has been visited
With blood you have been made clean
For two days you were washed
So us sinners you could redeem.

O Sipurcu
O Sipurcu visitatu
chi di sangu fustu lavatu
fustu lavatu pi quarantottu uri
pi nuiautri peccatori.