Let us venerate the Cross of the Lord, offering our tender affection as the cypress, the sweet fragrance of our faith as the cedar, and our sincere love as the pine.; and let us glorify our Deliverer who was nailed upon it. Let us venerate the Cross of the Lord, offering our tender affection as the cypress, the sweet fragrance of our faith as the cedar, and our sincere love as the pine; and let us glorify our Deliverer who was nailed upon it.*
* A reference to the three kinds of wood from which the Cross was made; cf. Isa. 60:13 (Sept.).
— Wednesday Matins of the Fourth Week of Lent, Ode 7, Lenten Triodion