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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.
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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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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quoting nevent1q…p8tsTitle 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.
11. Saturday after the First Sunday of Lent: The Charity of God in the Passion of Christ
Saturday after the First Sunday of Lent
"But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." (Romans 5:8)
I. — Christ died for the ungodly. This is a great thing when we consider who it is that died; it is also great when we consider for whom Christ died. Now, "it is difficult for anyone to die for a righteous man" (Romans 5:7); in other words, it is hard to find someone who would die to save a righteous man; and indeed, as Isaiah says, "the righteous perishes, and no one takes it to heart" (Isaiah 57:1). Thus, "it is difficult for anyone to die for a righteous man." If someone—namely, a rare exception—dares to die for a good man out of zeal for virtue, it would truly be a rare thing; and it is a very lofty deed, as St. John says (John 15:13): "Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends." However, to die for ungodly and wicked men is something that never occurs. For this reason, we should rightly marvel, for this is what Christ did.
II. — If we seek to know why Christ died for the ungodly, the answer is that through His death, God demonstrated His love toward us; that is to say, His death shows that He loves us infinitely because "while we were still sinners," Christ died for us.
The very death of Christ demonstrates God's charity toward us, for He gave His own Son so that, by dying, He would make satisfaction for us. "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son" (John 3:16).
In this way, just as the charity of God the Father toward us is shown by having given us His Spirit, it is also demonstrated by having given us His Son.
When St. Paul says that God "demonstrates His love toward us," he emphasizes the vastness of divine love, in that He delivered His Son to die for us; and then, regarding our condition; for God did not do this because of our merits, but "while we were still sinners," as St. Paul says in his Epistle to the Ephesians (Ephesians 2:4): "But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ."
In Romans V.
III. — In these matters, it can scarcely be believed. The Scripture says: "Look among the nations and watch—be utterly astounded! For I will work a work in your days that you would not believe, though it were told you." (Habakkuk 1:5). For Christ to have died for us is something astonishing, something that is hardly conceivable. And this is what the Apostle says, "Indeed, I will do a work in your days, a work that you will not believe, even if someone were to declare it to you." (Acts 13:41)
Such is the grace of God and His love toward us that He has done more for us than we can comprehend or conceive.
In Symb.
(P. D. Mézard, O. P., Meditationes ex Operibus S. Thomae.)
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