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SUMMARY:Lenten Weekday
DESCRIPTION:From a letter by 2\nST AUGUSTINE\n◊◊◊\nWhen the time came for the grace of the New Testament to be revealed through the man Christ Jesus\, there was no question of his attracting us to himself with the promise of earthly happiness. This explains our Lord’s willingness to undergo suffering\, to be scourged\, spat upon\, mocked\, nailed to the Cross\, and to accept death itself like one conquered and humiliated. All this he endured so that those who believed in him might learn what recompense for their dutiful service they could ask for and expect from God who had made them his children. They had to learn to serve him without any eye to earthly prosperity\, for to value their faith at so low a price would be tantamount to rejecting it and trampling it underfoot. \nBy his great human compassion and by appearing among us in the form of a servant\, Christ\, who is both God and man\, meant to teach us what we should spurn in this life and what we should hope for in the next. It was accordingly at the very height of his Passion\, when his enemies thought they had won such a mighty victory\, that he gave voice to our human weakness which was being crucified together with our former selves to set our sinful bodies free; and his cry was My God\, my God\, why have you forsaken me? \nIn taking up this expression of our frailty our Head is praying the psalm: My God\, my God\, look upon me: why have you forsaken me? Here the suppliant feels abandoned; his prayer seems to be of no avail. Jesus made these words his own; they are the words of his Body\, that is\, of the Church which must endure the travail of conversion from unregenerate human nature into the new\ncreation. His is the voice of our human weakness\, which has to be weaned from the good things of the Old Testament and taught to long after and hope for those of the New. \n2\nSt Augustine\, Letter 140.13-15 (PL 33:543-544); Word in Season II\, 1st ed.
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