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.

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