Picture: "The Crucifixion" by the master of Dreux Budé, Flemish, 15th century. Photo by me.
Here are a few music resources for today's Feast, which honors St. Helena's finding of the Holy Cross (sometimes called the "Elevation" of the Cross in the East):
Summorum Pontificum podcast: In Exaltatione Sanctae Crucis (introit and gradual in Gregorian chant).
A YouTube video of Chant Crux Fidelis, Vexilla Regis, and William Byrd's Agnus Dei from his "Mass for Four Voices":
Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis:
nulla silva talem profert,
fronde, flore, germine.
Dulce lignum,
Dulces clavos,
dulce pondus sustinet
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona nobis pacem.
And another YouTube video of the Vexilla Regis Prodeunt chant (hat tip Dappled Things and The New Liturgical Movement
):
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