Hymn recited on Good Friday morning during the Adoration of the Cross. For Breviary use it is divided into two parts: <\/p>\n
“Pange lingua gloriosi,” hymn for Matins from Passion Sunday to the Wednesday of Holy Week (inclusive), and for Matins on 3 May and 14 September, Feasts of the Finding, and of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross <\/p>\n
“Lustra sex qui jam peregit,” hymn for Lauds for the same days as above. <\/p>\n
It was written by Venantius Fortunatus (530-609) and has approximately twenty-five translations; the one given is by J. Neale. <\/p>\n
The eighth verse reads:<\/p>\n
Faithful Cross! above all other,<\/p>\n
One and only noble tree!<\/p>\n
None in foliage, none in blossom,<\/p>\n
None in fruit thy peers may be;<\/p>\n
Sweetest Wood and Sweetest Iron!<\/p>\n
Sweetest Weight is hung on thee. <\/p>\n
Pange lingua gloriosi [lauream] Hymn recited on Good Friday morning during the Adoration of the Cross. For Breviary use it is divided into two parts: “Pange lingua gloriosi,” hymn for Matins from Passion Sunday to the Wednesday of Holy Week (inclusive), and for Matins on 3 May and 14 September, Feasts of the Finding, and … Continue reading “Pange lingua gloriosi [lauream]”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}