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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
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19. Third Sunday of Lent: By the Passion We Are Released from Sin
III Sunday of Lent
"Who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood" (Revelation 1:5)
The Passion of Christ is the proper cause of the remission of sins for three reasons:
1. First, as a cause that provokes charity. For, as the Apostle says, "God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8). Now, through charity, we obtain the forgiveness of sins, according to the Gospel: "Her many sins have been forgiven; therefore she has loved much" (Luke 7:47).
2. Second, the Passion of Christ causes the remission of sins in the manner of redemption. For, being Christ our head, by the Passion He suffered for obedience and charity, He freed us, as His members, from sin, as the price of His Passion; like in the case of someone who redeems himself from a sin he has committed with his feet through a meritorious manual work. Just as the natural body is one, in the diversity of its members, so the whole Church, which is the mystical body of Christ, is considered almost one person with its head, which is Christ.
3. Third, in the manner of efficiency, insofar as the flesh in which Christ suffered His Passion is the instrument of divinity; through which the sufferings and actions of Christ act with divine virtue, with the purpose of delivering from sin.
Christ, by His Passion, freed us from sins casually, that is, by having instituted the cause of our liberation, by virtue of which He could forgive at any given moment any sins — past, present, or future. Such is the doctor who prepares a remedy capable of curing any diseases, even future ones.
However, since the Passion of Christ is the universal antecedent cause of the remission of sins, it is necessary to apply it to each individual in order to free them from their own sins. This is done through baptism, penance, and the other sacraments, which draw their power from the Passion of Christ.
Through faith, the Passion of Christ is also applied to us, so that we may receive its fruits, according to what the Apostle says: "Whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith" (Romans 3:25). But the faith by which we are purified from sin is not a faith without form, which can coexist with sin, but faith informed by charity. Thus, the Passion of Christ is applied to us, not only with respect to the intellect, but also with respect to affection. And in this way, sins are also forgiven by virtue of the Passion of Christ.
III q. XLIX, a. I
(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.

19. Third Sunday of Lent: By the Passion We Are Released from Sin
III Sunday of Lent
"Who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood" (Revelation 1:5)
The Passion of Christ is the proper cause of the remission of sins for three reasons:
1. First, as a cause that provokes charity. For, as the Apostle says, "God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8). Now, through charity, we obtain the forgiveness of sins, according to the Gospel: "Her many sins have been forgiven; therefore she has loved much" (Luke 7:47).
2. Second, the Passion of Christ causes the remission of sins in the manner of redemption. For, being Christ our head, by the Passion He suffered for obedience and charity, He freed us, as His members, from sin, as the price of His Passion; like in the case of someone who redeems himself from a sin he has committed with his feet through a meritorious manual work. Just as the natural body is one, in the diversity of its members, so the whole Church, which is the mystical body of Christ, is considered almost one person with its head, which is Christ.
3. Third, in the manner of efficiency, insofar as the flesh in which Christ suffered His Passion is the instrument of divinity; through which the sufferings and actions of Christ act with divine virtue, with the purpose of delivering from sin.
Christ, by His Passion, freed us from sins casually, that is, by having instituted the cause of our liberation, by virtue of which He could forgive at any given moment any sins — past, present, or future. Such is the doctor who prepares a remedy capable of curing any diseases, even future ones.
However, since the Passion of Christ is the universal antecedent cause of the remission of sins, it is necessary to apply it to each individual in order to free them from their own sins. This is done through baptism, penance, and the other sacraments, which draw their power from the Passion of Christ.
Through faith, the Passion of Christ is also applied to us, so that we may receive its fruits, according to what the Apostle says: "Whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith" (Romans 3:25). But the faith by which we are purified from sin is not a faith without form, which can coexist with sin, but faith informed by charity. Thus, the Passion of Christ is applied to us, not only with respect to the intellect, but also with respect to affection. And in this way, sins are also forgiven by virtue of the Passion of Christ.
III q. XLIX, a. I
(P. D. Mézard, O. P., Meditationes ex Operibus S. Thomae.)
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quoting nevent1q…xxl6Title 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.
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18. Saturday after the II Sunday of Lent: The Passion of Christ Worked Our Salvation as Redemption
Saturday of the II Week of Lent
Scripture says: "Not with corruptible things, like silver or gold, were you redeemed from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot" (1 Peter 1:18). In another place: "Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us" (Galatians 3:13). And what is said of the Apostle "having become a curse for us" means that He suffered for us on the wood. Therefore, by His Passion, He redeemed us. By sin, man was enslaved in two ways:
1. First, by the servitude of sin; for "whoever commits sin is a slave of sin" (John 8:34) and "whoever is defeated is enslaved by the one who has defeated him" (2 Peter 2:19). Now, since the devil defeated man by inducing him to sin, man was made a slave of the devil.
2. Second, regarding the liability to punishment by which man was bound, according to the justice of God. And this is also a form of slavery; for it is typical of the slave to suffer what he does not want, contrary to the free man, who can dispose of himself as he wishes.
Thus, since the Passion of Christ is a sufficient and superabundant satisfaction for sin and for the liability of the human race, His Passion was like a price by which we were delivered from both forms of slavery. Thus, the satisfaction by which we make satisfaction for ourselves or for others is considered a price by which we are redeemed from sin and penalty, according to Scripture: "Redeem your sins by almsgiving" (Daniel 4:24).
Now, Christ made satisfaction, not by giving money or in any similar way, but by giving Himself — the greatest good — for us. Therefore, it is said that the Passion of Christ is our redemption.
Man, by sinning, incurred an obligation both to God and to the devil:
— For, by guilt, he offended God and subjected himself to the devil, by his consent. And thus, because of the guilt, he did not become a servant of God; rather, by turning away from His service, he fell into the slavery of the devil, by God's just permission, due to the offense committed against Him.
— But, regarding the penalty, man primarily incurred an obligation to God, as the supreme judge; and to the devil, as his executioner, according to the Gospel (Matthew 5:25): "Lest your adversary deliver you to the judge, and the judge hand you over to the officer," that is, to the cruel angel of punishment, as Chrysostom interprets. Therefore, although the devil unjustly held, to the extent of his power, the man deceived by his fraud under his yoke, both regarding guilt and regarding penalty, nonetheless, it was just that man should suffer this, by God's permission with respect to guilt, and by the order of the same God with respect to penalty.
Thus, with regard to God, justice demanded that man be redeemed; but not with respect to the devil.
III q. XLVIII, a. IV.
(P. D. Mézard, O. P., Meditationes ex Operibus S. Thomae.)
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