Good Friday

[damont]

Vere languores nostros ipse tulit, et dolores nostors ipse portavit; cujus livore sanati sumus.
Dulce lignum, dulce clavos, dulcia ferens pondera,
Quae sola fuisti digna sustinere Regem Coelorum et Dominum

(Truly He has borne our weakness, and carried our griefs; by His wounds we are healed.
O sweet wood, O sweet nails, sweetly bearing the weights,
That wast solely worthy to uplift the King of Heaven, the Lord.)

(This is what we sang at the end of the service tonight. The English translation is my own, though informed by a number of different sources.)

Comments

[sskipstress.livejournal.com]

whose setting did you sing?

[dr-zrfq.livejournal.com]

Tomas Luis de Victoria -- it's a favorite with our group.