O Crux Ave | Palestrina | Schola Diffusa

O crux ave, spes unica
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594)
Recorded and released by Schola Diffusa during Lent - in what we hope are the waning days of the pandemic.
TRANSLATION:
O hail the cross our only hope
in this passiontide
grant increase of grace to believers
and remove the sins of the guilty.
ORIGINAL LATIN:
O Crux ave, spes unica,
hoc Passionis tempore!
piis adauge gratiam,
reisque dele crimina.