Responsory "Amica crucis" for the feast of Saint Clare

Amica crucis plangere
crucifixum novitias docet quam
ipsa plangit.
Crux ei digno pondere
Maiores dat delicias.
Quo maior dolor angit
Hec Christi sui munere morbos
atque molestias fugat dum
cruce tangit.

The friend of the Cross
teaches the novices to lament the crucified one
whom she herself laments.
The Cross gives greater delights to one who is worthy of its weight.
To the one whom greater grief troubles,
This one with her gift of Christ avoids
affliction and troubles while she touches the Cross.