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SUMMARY:Monday of Holy Week
DESCRIPTION:From a sermon by 2\nST AELRED OF RIEVAULX\n◊◊◊\nOur Lord Jesus Christ worked our salvation not in one way only\, but undoubtedly in many ways. Since it was in mercy that he had planned our redemption\, he wrought this redemption in such a way that he might serve as an example for us… In this season you are recalling this redemption of ours. Be careful\, then\, to reflect not only on the fact of this redemption but also on two other points: the manner in which this redemption was wrought\, and the place in which it was wrought. The manner of redemption is the suffering of the Cross; the place\, outside the city. \nLet us then learn from the Cross of Jesus our proper way of living. Should I say ‘living’ or\, instead\, ‘dying’? Rather\, both living and dying. Dying to the world\, living for God. Dying to vices and living by the virtues. Dying to the flesh\, but living in the spirit. Thus in the Cross of Christ there is death and in the Cross of Christ there is life. The death of death is there\, and the life of life. The death of sins is there and the life of the virtues. The death of the flesh is there\, and the life of the spirit. But why did God choose this manner of death? He chose it as both a mystery and an example. In addition\, he chose it because our sickness was such as to make such a remedy appropriate. \nIt was fitting that we who had fallen because of a tree might rise up because of a tree. Fitting that the one who had conquered by means of a tree might also be conquered by means of a tree… And because we had fallen from the security of that most blessed place on earth into this great\, expansive sea\, it was fitting that wood should be made ready to carry us across it. For no one crosses the sea except on wood\, or this world except on the Cross… \nDeath on a Cross is endured not on the earth but above the earth; and the victim’s limbs are not cut off but stretched. They are stretched horizontally and perpendicularly\, so that the crucified man is stretched out in the four directions and seems to embrace the four quarters of the world\, taking possession of both heaven and earth. For when a Cross is set upright\, the head is directed to heaven and the feet to earth\, and the outstretched arms to what is located between heaven and earth. Moreover\, if you lay a crucified man on the ground\, one part of him will occupy the east\, another the west\, another the south\, and another the north. \nDo you see\, now\, the mystery in the kind of death Christ chose? The Apostle sets forth this point with clarity\, when he says: He humbled himself\, becoming obedient unto death\, even to death on the Cross. And\, revealing the mystery\, he says: Therefore God exalted him and gave him the name that is above all names\, so that at the name of Jesus every knee might bend of those who are in heaven\, on earth\, and under the earth. Since\, then\, he was to take possession of heaven and earth through the Cross\, on the Cross he embraced heaven and earth. \n2\nSt Aelred\, In Hebd. Sancta\, sermon 36.1-2.4 (CCM 2A:294-295); Word in Season II\, 2nd ed.
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