HOLY CROSS EVENING SONG

 

SONGS OF THE PEOPLE OF GOD


EXALTATION OF THE HOLY CROSS 

     SEPTEMBER 14     


EVENING PRAYER 

      (VESPERS EXALTATION OF THE HOLY CROSS)     


RECORDED SERVICES

0:00 Deus in Adjutorium – "O God come to my assistance"
0:40 Hymn: "Sweet the Moments, Rich in Blessing," James Allen 1734-1804 and Walter Shirley 1725-1786, Tune Basel 1745; The English Hymnal, 1906 St. Paul's Hymnal (Cambridge, MA) no.391.
3:27 Psalm 110v1-5, 7
5:27 Psalm 116v10-19
7:39 Canticle: Revelation 4v11; 5v9, 10, 12
9:28 Reading: 1 Corinthians 1v23-24
10:04 Responsory: O glorious cross, on you the King of angels was victorious.
10:42 The Magnificat (English, Tone 8)
12:44 Intercessions: Lord, through your cross bring us to the glory of your kingdom.
14:45 The Lord's Prayer (Latin) – Pater Noster
15:31 Concluding Prayers

Antiphon
This was Love’s great deed, 
that death should die when Life itself was slain upon the tree.

O magnum pietátis opus! Mors mórtua tunc est, quando hoc in ligno mórtua vita fuit.



PSALM 110

The Lord has said to my lord:
  “Sit at my right hand

PSALM 109:1-5,7
Dixit Dóminus Dómino me



Antiphon
Lord, we venerate your cross as we recall your blessed passion.
 You suffered for our sake, have mercy on us.

Tuam crucem adorámus, Dómine, tuam gloriósam recólimus passiónem;
 miserére nostri, qui passus es pro nobis.


PSALM 116 B

Still I trusted, even when I said
  “I am greatly afflicted,”

PSALM 115:10-19

Crédidi, étiam cum locútus sum:*
  «Ego humiliátus sum nimis».


Antiphon
We worship you, Christ, and bless you. 
By your cross you have redeemed the world.

Adorámus te, Christe, et benedícimus tibi, quia per crucem tuam redemísti mundum.




CANTICLE REVELATIONS 4 5

You are worthy, our Lord and God,
  to receive glory and honor and power;

REVELATIONS 4:11; 5:9,10, 12
Dignus es, Dómine et Deus noster,*
  accípere glóriam et honórem et virtútem,


Short Responsory
The King of angels held his triumph on the cross of glory.
He washed our wounds clean with his blood.

Responsorium breve
℣. O crux gloriósa,* In te triumphávit Rex angelórum
℟. Et cruóre suo vúlnera nostra lavit.*




Antiphon
Hail holy cross, standard of victory. 
Lead us to the triumph of Christ Jesus in the kingdom of heaven.

O crucis victória et admirábile signum, in cælésti cúria fac nos captáre triúmphum.




14 Tuesday Holy Cross Day
5.30 Evensong sung by the boy choristers and Lay Clerks
John iv of Portugal, Crux fidelis
Responses, Rose
Psalms 73, 74
Dyson in F
Bruckner, Christus factus est
Hymn 707: Lift high the cross (Crucifer