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SUMMARY:Lenten Weekday
DESCRIPTION:GOD’S LOVE POURED OUT\nFrom a commentary by Origen 7\n◊◊◊\nSt. Paul has told us that the love of God has been poured into our hearts\nby the Holy Spirit. Now in his desire to demonstrate the power of that love more\nfully\, he gives us the convincing proof that it was not for good people but for\nsinners that Christ died. It is indeed true that we were sinners before we turned\nto God and that our Lord Jesus Christ laid down his life for us before we believed\nin him. This he surely could not have done without an immense love for us\,\neither the love that he himself showed by dying for sinners or the love God the\nFather showed by giving his only Son for our redemption. \nFew people would give their lives even for a just person\, and all of us face\ndeath with reluctance\, even in a just cause. How great a Savior we have\, then\,\nand how deeply we ought to ponder his love for us! It is a clear proof of his\ndivine goodness that when the time appointed came\, he did not hesitate to\nsuffer and die for the wicked and unjust. In the gospel it is said that no one is\ngood but God the Father; and so unless our Savior had been his Son\, sharing in\nthe Father’s very substance\, he could not have shown such great goodness\ntoward us. By this proof\, therefore\, we can recognize in him that good man for\nwhom someone might have the courage to die. \nOnce people have understood the extent of Christ’s goodness toward\nthem and his love has been poured into their hearts\, they will long not only to\ndie for this good man Christ\, but to die voluntarily. In fact we often see this\nhappen\, when Christians whose hearts are overflowing with love for Christ\npresent themselves before their persecutors of their own free will and with the\nutmost courage\, confessing the name of Christ in the presence of angels and\nmen for the whole world to hear. Not only do they have the courage to suffer\ninjustice for the name of this good man\, but for his sake they are even ready to\ngive their lives. Few would do this even for a just person\, since our love of this\nmortal life is so great that even in a just cause hardly anyone can bear to die.\nOnly for God’s sake will people have the courage to submit to death of their own\nfree will. For any other reason they can scarcely endure it\, even in the cause of\njustice and in obedience to the law of nature. \nGod has proven his love for us; it was while we were still sinners that\nChrist died for us. Since we are justified by the shedding of his blood\, how can\nwe doubt that he will save us from the wrath to come? \nThe Apostle has told us that at the appointed time Christ died for the\nwicked. Now he is showing us how this reveals God’s immeasurable love for the\nhuman race. If the love of God for ungodly sinners was so great that he could\ngive his only Son for their salvation\, he says\, how much more abundantly will\nhis love be poured out upon those who have turned to him in repentance and\nwhom he has redeemed by his Son’s own blood. \n7 Origen\, Lib.4\,10-11; PG 14\, 997-999.
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