{"id":1209,"date":"2015-09-14T20:34:48","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T01:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/?p=1209"},"modified":"2020-05-03T15:48:04","modified_gmt":"2020-05-03T20:48:04","slug":"exaltation-of-the-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2015\/09\/14\/exaltation-of-the-cross\/","title":{"rendered":"Exaltation of the Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">&#8220;God, who deigned to redeem the human race through the precious blood of Thy only-begotten Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, graciously grant that whoever approaches to adore the life-giving cross, may be freed from the bonds of their sins.&#8221; [My translation] <em>The Sarum Missal<\/em>, Ed. J. Wickham Legg, (Oxford: Clarendon, 1916), p. 320.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/files\/2015\/04\/Cross-12th-century.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1342\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/files\/2015\/04\/Cross-12th-century-208x300.jpg\" alt=\"Cross-12th century\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/files\/2015\/04\/Cross-12th-century-208x300.jpg 208w, https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/files\/2015\/04\/Cross-12th-century.jpg 575w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the collect recorded in one of the more famous medieval liturgies. \u00a0By the twelfth century the feast for the Exaltation of the Cross was a well-established date on the liturgical calendar. \u00a0Numerous medieval sermon collections contain homilies for this feast. Here is one example from the early twelfth century:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This Holy Cross should be venerated by angels and adored by human beings. \u00a0Certainly, through the Cross the devil was taken captive, the world was freed, and hell plundered, [while] paradise rejoiced. \u00a0All Christian people throughout the world have been invited to the heavenly kingdom. \u00a0The celestial homeland exults over the triumph of the Cross, the Church rejoices, [while] the Jewish perfidy falls apart. \u00a0Death is laid low by the victory of the Holy Cross&#8230;.the Holy Cross has become for us the key to heaven [and] the powerful destruction of hell.&#8221; [My translation] Honorius Augustodunensis, <em>De exaltatione sanctae crucis<\/em> [On the Exaltation of the Holy Cross], <em>Patrologia Latina<\/em> 172: 1001-02.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;God, who deigned to redeem the human race through the precious blood of Thy only-begotten Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, graciously grant that whoever approaches to adore the life-giving cross, may be freed from the bonds of their sins.&#8221; [My &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2015\/09\/14\/exaltation-of-the-cross\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,101,122,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christ","category-cross","category-honorius-augustodunensis","category-medieval"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1209"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2325,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions\/2325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}