Good Friday
Immediately following the proclamation of the passion, the liturgy of the veneration of the cross begins with a triple chant as the cross is brought from the back of the church to the altar. The chant begins on a low tone and is sung higher with each repetition.
“Ecce lignum Crucis, in quo salus mundi pependit.”
“Behold the wood of the cross, on which hung the savior of the world.
The congregation responds:
“Venite Adoremus”
Come let us worship.
The cross is not meant to be a fashion statement around the neck of an aging rock singer or a gang sign. The cross is the instrument of our salvation on which Jesus, fully God and fully man, was put to a painful death at the hands of Roman soldiers who perfected the means of maximizing both the degree of agony and the amount of time the victim hung there before finally dying.
Jesus’ death on the cross brought us from death to eternal life. There is only one possible response when we gaze upon the cross on which hung the Savior of the world.
Come let us worship.
“Venite Adoremus”
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