{"id":3135,"date":"2008-03-08T21:09:03","date_gmt":"2008-03-08T21:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2008\/03\/fulget-crucis-mysterium-1\/"},"modified":"2008-03-08T21:09:03","modified_gmt":"2008-03-08T21:09:03","slug":"fulget-crucis-mysterium-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2008\/03\/fulget-crucis-mysterium-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Fulget Crucis Mysterium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Our Lady Saint Mary, Saint John the Beloved Disciple,<br \/>\nand the Wounded Side of Christ<\/em><br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/cruz_cristo_piedad-16112004-600.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"cruz_cristo_piedad-16112004-600.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/cruz_cristo_piedad-16112004-600-thumb.jpg\" width=\"249\" height=\"300\"style=\"float:left; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px;\"  \/><\/a><br \/>\nWith First Vespers of the Fifth Sunday of Lent we enter into the last phase of preparation for the Pasch of the Lord: Passiontide.  The Church places on our lips the great hymn of Christ&rsquo;s Cross and Passion, and so we sing: <em>fulget Crucis mysterium<\/em>, &ldquo;the mystery of the Cross shines out.&rdquo;  The second to the last verse of this age-old hymn is a confession of hope, hope in the power of the Cross:<br \/>\n<em>O Cross, all hail!  Sole hope, abide<br \/>\nWith us now in this Passiontide:<br \/>\nNew grace in loving hearts implant<br \/>\nAnd pardon to the guilty grant!<\/em><br \/>\nThe station today is at Saint Peter&rsquo;s Basilica.  The solemnity of this Fifth Sunday of Lent required that the faithful of Rome assemble at the tomb of Saint Peter.  The purple veils that, during these last two weeks before Pascha, will hide our sacred images, recall the great veil that in ancient times was stretched across the whole sanctuary, obliging the faithful to go by faith and longing into the inner sanctuary, the invisible one, where Christ is Victim, Altar and Priest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Lady Saint Mary, Saint John the Beloved Disciple, and the Wounded Side of Christ With First Vespers of the Fifth Sunday of Lent we enter into the last phase of preparation for the Pasch of the Lord: Passiontide. The Church places on our lips the great hymn of Christ&rsquo;s Cross and Passion, and so <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,23,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lent-2008","category-liturgy-of-lent","category-passion-of-christ"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVypq-Oz","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}