CRUX fidelis, inter omnes Arbor una nobilis :
Nulla silva talem profert,
Fronde, flore, germine.
* Dulce lignum, dulces clavos,
Dulce pondus sustinet.
 

FAITHFUL cross, O tree
all beauteous, tree all
peerless and divine : not a forest on earth can show
us such a leaf and flower as thine.
* Sweet the wood and sweet the nails, laden with so sweet a load.
 

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GOOD FRIDAY

V. I have exalted thee with great power: and thou hast
hanged Me on the gibbet of the cross.

O My people ...

III

The following Antiphon is sung :

We adore Thy cross, O Lord : and we praise and glorify Thy holy resurrection : for behold, by the
wood of the cross joy came into the whole world. Ps. 66. May God have mercy on us, and bless us :
may He cause the light of His countenance to shine upon us, and have mercy on us.
Ant. We adore...

IV

The Crux fidelis... Faithful cross... is sung , the first and se­
cond part of it alternately following each verse of the Pange
lingua.

Crux Fidelis.