Lessons 4-6 from the Divine Office for the Feast of Corpus Christi: Sermon by St. Thomas Aquinas, Opusculum 57
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Lessons 4-6 from the Divine Office for the Feast of Corpus Christi Sermon by St. Thomas Aquinas, Opusculum 57 . Among the immeasurable benefits, which the goodness of God hath bestowed on the Christian people, is a dignity beyond all price. For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the Lord our God is unto us? The only-begotten Son of God was pleased to make us partakers of his divine nature; that is, he took our nature upon him, being himself made man that he might, as it were, make men into gods. And this body, which he took from us, he gave wholly unto our salvation. For, on the Altar of the Cross, he offered up his body to God the Father, as a sacrifice for our reconciliation, and thereon he shed his own blood for our redemption; that is, his blood is the price whereby he redeemeth us from wretchedness and bondage, and the washing whereby he cleanseth us from all sin. And for a noble and abiding Memórial of this his so great work of goodness, he hath left unto his faithful ones the same his very Body for Meat, and the same his very Blood for Drink, with which we are fed under the forms of Bread and Wine.
Lessons 4-6 from the Divine Office for the Feast of Corpus Christi: Sermon by St. Thomas Aquinas, Opusculum 57
Lessons 4-6 from the Divine Office for the…
Lessons 4-6 from the Divine Office for the Feast of Corpus Christi: Sermon by St. Thomas Aquinas, Opusculum 57
Lessons 4-6 from the Divine Office for the Feast of Corpus Christi Sermon by St. Thomas Aquinas, Opusculum 57 . Among the immeasurable benefits, which the goodness of God hath bestowed on the Christian people, is a dignity beyond all price. For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the Lord our God is unto us? The only-begotten Son of God was pleased to make us partakers of his divine nature; that is, he took our nature upon him, being himself made man that he might, as it were, make men into gods. And this body, which he took from us, he gave wholly unto our salvation. For, on the Altar of the Cross, he offered up his body to God the Father, as a sacrifice for our reconciliation, and thereon he shed his own blood for our redemption; that is, his blood is the price whereby he redeemeth us from wretchedness and bondage, and the washing whereby he cleanseth us from all sin. And for a noble and abiding Memórial of this his so great work of goodness, he hath left unto his faithful ones the same his very Body for Meat, and the same his very Blood for Drink, with which we are fed under the forms of Bread and Wine.