Faithful Cross

Composed by Leo Nestor, performed by Verena Lucia Anders and William Buthod on Good Friday, 2020
Faithful cross! Tree of solitary spendor! Never before has forest yielded such a tribute: in blossom, in fruit branches.
Sweet the nails! (dulce ferum!)
Sweet the wood! (dulce lignum!)
Hear then, where all life commences,
commences with a weight of such sweetness:
its bark bears the sweetest burden.