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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
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.
14. Tuesday after the II Sunday of Lent: The Passion of Christ Brought About Our Salvation in a Meritorious Way
Tuesday of the II Week of Lent
I. Grace was given to Christ not only as an individual person but as the head of the Church, so that it would flow to its members. Therefore, the works of Christ are related to Him and to His works, just as the works of a man established in grace relate to himself. Now, it is clear that one who, being established in grace, suffers for justice, thereby merits salvation for himself, according to Scripture: "Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake." Thus, Christ, through His passion, merited salvation not only for Himself but also for all His members. Indeed, Christ, from the moment of His conception, merited for us eternal salvation. However, from our side, certain impediments constituted an obstacle to obtaining the effect of the preceding merits. Therefore, in order to remove those impediments, Christ had to suffer.
And although Christ's charity did not increase more in the Passion than before, the Passion of Christ had a certain effect that the preceding merits did not have; not because of a greater charity, but because of the nature of the work, which was in accordance with that effect.
III, q. XLVIII, a. I
The members and the head belong to the same person. Thus, since Christ was our head by divinity and fullness of grace, which flows to others, and since we are His members, His merit is not foreign to us, but flows to us through the unity of the mystical body.
III Dist. 18, a. VI.
II. One must know that, although Christ has sufficiently merited through His death for all humankind, each individual must seek the remedy for his own salvation. The death of Christ is like a universal cause of salvation, just as the sin of the first man was a universal cause of damnation. Now, it is necessary that the universal cause be applied to each one in particular so that one may participate in the effect of the universal cause.
Now, the effect of the sin of our first parents reaches every individual through carnal generation; however, the effect of Christ's death comes through spiritual regeneration, by virtue of which man is, in some way, united and incorporated into Christ. And for this reason, it is fitting that each one be regenerated by Christ and that he receive everything for which the virtue of Christ's death works.
(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.
14. Tuesday after the II Sunday of Lent: The Passion of Christ Brought About Our Salvation in a Meritorious Way
Tuesday of the II Week of Lent
I. Grace was given to Christ not only as an individual person but as the head of the Church, so that it would flow to its members. Therefore, the works of Christ are related to Him and to His works, just as the works of a man established in grace relate to himself. Now, it is clear that one who, being established in grace, suffers for justice, thereby merits salvation for himself, according to Scripture: "Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake." Thus, Christ, through His passion, merited salvation not only for Himself but also for all His members. Indeed, Christ, from the moment of His conception, merited for us eternal salvation. However, from our side, certain impediments constituted an obstacle to obtaining the effect of the preceding merits. Therefore, in order to remove those impediments, Christ had to suffer.
And although Christ's charity did not increase more in the Passion than before, the Passion of Christ had a certain effect that the preceding merits did not have; not because of a greater charity, but because of the nature of the work, which was in accordance with that effect.
III, q. XLVIII, a. I
The members and the head belong to the same person. Thus, since Christ was our head by divinity and fullness of grace, which flows to others, and since we are His members, His merit is not foreign to us, but flows to us through the unity of the mystical body.
III Dist. 18, a. VI.
II. One must know that, although Christ has sufficiently merited through His death for all humankind, each individual must seek the remedy for his own salvation. The death of Christ is like a universal cause of salvation, just as the sin of the first man was a universal cause of damnation. Now, it is necessary that the universal cause be applied to each one in particular so that one may participate in the effect of the universal cause.
Now, the effect of the sin of our first parents reaches every individual through carnal generation; however, the effect of Christ's death comes through spiritual regeneration, by virtue of which man is, in some way, united and incorporated into Christ. And for this reason, it is fitting that each one be regenerated by Christ and that he receive everything for which the virtue of Christ's death works.
(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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