Friday, April 10, 2009

Christmas and the Crucifixion

At Christmas, we sing Venite, adoremus! ("Come, let us adore him.")

On Good Friday, in response to Ecce lignum Crucis, in quo salus mundi pependit ("Behold the wood of the Cross, on which hung the salvation of the world"), we sing Venite, adoremus! (Come, let us worship.")

Coincidence? I think not.

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