Crux Fidelis - Faithful Cross - the 1962 Liber Usualis version

Latin Mass Homeschool Family

Day 85 of #100daysofchant

I love how the chorus repeats in two parts. Keeps you awake figuring out which chorus comes next. Also makes it a bit more interesting to sing along the chorus. And it is beautiful - recounting the story of Redemption from Eden to Bethlehem to the Upper Room to Calvary to Heaven.

More info at: https://newbookoldhymns.brandt.id.au/hymns/cruxfidelis.html

Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis: nulla silva talem profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulces clavos, dulce pondus sustinet. Faithful cross, above all other: one and only noble tree! None in foliage, none in blossom, none in fruit thy peer may be: sweetest wood and sweetest iron, sweetest weight is hung on thee. De parentis protoplasti Fraude Factor condolens, Quando pomi noxialis In necem morsu ruit: Ipse lignum tunc notavit, Damna ligni ut solveret. Hoc opus nostræ salutis Ordo depoposcerat; Multiformis proditoris Ars ut artem falleret, Et medelam ferret inde, Hostis unde læserat. Quando venit ergo sacri Plenitudo temporis, Missus est ab arce Patris Natus, orbis Conditor; Atque ventre virginali Carne amictus prodiit. Vagit infans inter arcta Conditus præsepia: Membra pannis envoluta Vrigo Mater alligat: Et Dei manus pedesque Stricta cingit fascia. Lustra sex qui jam peregit, Tempus implens corporis, Sponte libera Redemptor Passioni deditus, Agnus in Crucis levatur Immolandus stipite. Felle potus ecce languet: Spina, clavi, lancea Mite corpus perforarunt: Unda manat, et cruor: Terra, pontus, astra, mundus, Quo lavantur flumine! Flecte ramos arbor alta, Tensa laxa viscera, Et rigor lentescat ille, Quem dedit nativitas; Et superni membra regis Tende miti stipite. Sola digna tu fuisti Ferre mundi victimam; Atque portum præparare Arco mundo naufrago, Quam sacer cruor perunxit, Fusus Agni corpore. Sempiterna sit beatæ Trinitati gloria, Æqua Patri, Filioque; Par decus Paraclito: Unius Trinique nomen Laudet universitas.