The Sacred Species are brought from the altar of repose to the main altarThe schola sings the "Impropers" which make up a chant of lamentation of Our LordVeneration of the CrossThe cross is uncovered in three steps at the chant of: "ecce lignum Crucis, in quo salus mundi pependit" --"here is the wood of the Cross on which was hung the Savior of the world"Reading of the PassionAt the "flectamus genua" in the collect following the tractMass of the presanctified. The ministers are prostrate before unveiling the cross on which Our Lord died on this day.
