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Title of the work in Latin
MEDULLA S. THOMAE AQUITATIS PER OMNES ANNI LITURGICI DIES DISTRBUITA, SEU MEDITATIONES EX OPERIBUS S. THOMAE DEPROMPTAE
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FR. Z. MÉZARD O. P.
NOTE
All titles with an asterisk contain material that is no longer attributed to Saint Thomas Aquinas.
13. Monday after the II Sunday of Lent: Whether it was Convenient for Christ to Suffer at the Hands of the Gentiles
Monday of the II Week of Lent
"They will deliver Him to the Gentiles to be mocked, scourged, and crucified" (Matthew 20:19)
1. In the very manner of Christ's passion, the effect was prefigured. Thus, the first effect of Christ's death benefited the Jews, many of whom were baptized at the occasion of that death, as is read in Scripture. Then, through the preaching of the Jews, the effect of Christ's passion was felt by the Gentiles. Therefore, it was fitting that Christ began to suffer at the hands of the Jews and then, being delivered by them, His Passion was completed by the hands of the Gentiles.
2. Christ, to show the abundance of His charity, which led Him to suffer, asked from the height of the cross for forgiveness for His persecutors. Therefore, in order for the fruits of this petition to reach both the Jews and the Gentiles, Christ wished to suffer from both.
3. The sacrifices foreshadowed by the old law were not offered by the Gentiles, but by the Jews. Now, the Passion of Christ was the oblation of a sacrifice, for Christ suffered death moved by charity, of His own free will. But the suffering inflicted on Him by the persecutors was not a sacrifice but a most grievous sin.
4. As Augustine reflects, when the Jews said, "It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death," they meant to signify that it was not lawful for them to kill anyone due to the sanctity of the festive day, which they were beginning to celebrate. Or they might say this, as Chrysostom teaches, because they wanted to kill Jesus not as a transgressor of the law but as a public enemy for having made Himself king — a matter that was not theirs to judge. Or because it was not lawful for them to crucify Him, as they desired, but rather to stone Him — which they did with Stephen. Or, more aptly, because by the Romans, to whom they were subject, the power to kill was denied them.
III, q. XLVII, a. IV
(P. D. Mézard, O. P., Meditationes ex Operibus S. Thomae.)
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MEDULLA S. THOMAE AQUITATIS PER OMNES ANNI LITURGICI DIES DISTRBUITA, SEU MEDITATIONES EX OPERIBUS S. THOMAE DEPROMPTAE
Compilation and arrangement by
FR. Z. MÉZARD O. P.
NOTE
All titles with an asterisk contain material that is no longer attributed to Saint Thomas Aquinas.
13. Monday after the II Sunday of Lent: Whether it was Convenient for Christ to Suffer at the Hands of the Gentiles
Monday of the II Week of Lent
"They will deliver Him to the Gentiles to be mocked, scourged, and crucified" (Matthew 20:19)
1. In the very manner of Christ's passion, the effect was prefigured. Thus, the first effect of Christ's death benefited the Jews, many of whom were baptized at the occasion of that death, as is read in Scripture. Then, through the preaching of the Jews, the effect of Christ's passion was felt by the Gentiles. Therefore, it was fitting that Christ began to suffer at the hands of the Jews and then, being delivered by them, His Passion was completed by the hands of the Gentiles.
2. Christ, to show the abundance of His charity, which led Him to suffer, asked from the height of the cross for forgiveness for His persecutors. Therefore, in order for the fruits of this petition to reach both the Jews and the Gentiles, Christ wished to suffer from both.
3. The sacrifices foreshadowed by the old law were not offered by the Gentiles, but by the Jews. Now, the Passion of Christ was the oblation of a sacrifice, for Christ suffered death moved by charity, of His own free will. But the suffering inflicted on Him by the persecutors was not a sacrifice but a most grievous sin.
4. As Augustine reflects, when the Jews said, "It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death," they meant to signify that it was not lawful for them to kill anyone due to the sanctity of the festive day, which they were beginning to celebrate. Or they might say this, as Chrysostom teaches, because they wanted to kill Jesus not as a transgressor of the law but as a public enemy for having made Himself king — a matter that was not theirs to judge. Or because it was not lawful for them to crucify Him, as they desired, but rather to stone Him — which they did with Stephen. Or, more aptly, because by the Romans, to whom they were subject, the power to kill was denied them.
III, q. XLVII, a. IV
(P. D. Mézard, O. P., Meditationes ex Operibus S. Thomae.)
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quoting nevent1q…zzv4Title of the work in Latin
MEDULLA S. THOMAE AQUITATIS PER OMNES ANNI LITURGICI DIES DISTRBUITA, SEU MEDITATIONES EX OPERIBUS S. THOMAE DEPROMPTAE
Compilation and arrangement by
FR. Z. MÉZARD O. P.
NOTE
All titles with an asterisk contain material that is no longer attributed to Saint Thomas Aquinas.
12. Second Sunday of Lent: If God the Father Delivered Christ to the Passion
Second Sunday of Lent
"What He did not spare even His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all" (Romans 8:32)
Christ suffered voluntarily, in obedience to the Father. And in three ways did God the Father deliver Christ to the passion:
1st. According to His eternal will, He determined the passion of Christ for the liberation of humankind, in accordance with what Isaiah says: "The Lord laid on Him the iniquity of us all" (Isaiah 53:6) and "It pleased the Lord to bruise Him" (Isaiah 53:10).
2nd. Because He inspired in Him the will to suffer for us by infusing Him with love. And in the same passage it reads: "He was oppressed and He was afflicted, yet He opened not His mouth" (Isaiah 53:7).
3rd. By not delivering Him from the passion, exposing Him to His persecutors. Thus, we read in the Gospel of Matthew that the Lord, hanging on the cross, said: "My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?" (Matthew 27:46), that is to say, because He exposed Him to the power of those who pursued Him.
It is wicked and cruel to deliver an innocent man to passion and death against his will. However, it was not thus that God the Father delivered Christ, but by inspiring Him with the will to suffer for us. In this, both the severity of God, who did not wish to forgive sins without punishment, as the Apostle observes when he says: "What He did not spare even His own Son" (Romans 8:32), and His goodness, since, given that man could not provide adequate satisfaction through any punishment he might suffer, He gave him someone to fulfill that satisfaction. This is what the Apostle points out when he says: "He delivered Him up for us all," and the letter to the Romans states: "Whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood" (Romans 3:25).
The same action is judged good or bad, depending on the different sources from which it comes. Thus, it was out of love that the Father delivered Christ, and Christ Himself gave Himself; for this, both are praised. Judas, however, delivered Him out of greed. The Jews, out of envy. And Pilate, out of worldly fear because he feared Caesar. For this reason, they are all condemned.
III, q. XLVII, a. III
Christ, however, was not in debt to death out of necessity, but out of charity toward men, desiring the salvation of men, and out of charity toward God, desiring to fulfill His will, as He says in the Gospel of Matthew: "Not as I will, but as You will" (Matthew 26:39).
II, Dist. 20, q. I, a. V
(P. D. Mézard, O. P., Meditationes ex Operibus S. Thomae.)
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