We exalt the precious and life-giving Cross, and we honor in song the instruments of our salvation: the nails, the spear, the reed, the sponge, the plaited thorns, the scourge, the pillar, and the crimson robe. By innocently enduring the full violence of fallen human passions, the Lord defeated that violence, and with it all the power of the world, all the authority of the devil, and all the sting of death. May the Cross always be our paradoxical weapon and ward against every unwholesome strength that stands between us and everlasting salvation.
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