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SUMMARY:Tuesday of Holy Week
DESCRIPTION:From “On the Virtue of Patience” by 3\nST CYPRIAN OF CARTHAGE\n◊◊◊\nJesus Christ\, our God and Lord\, said that he had come down to earth to do his Father’s will. Among the virtues that revealed his divine majesty was the endurance that mirrored his Father’s patience. Every act of his\, from the moment of his first appearing\, bore the stamp of the patience with which it was carried out. He was no sinner\, but the Son of God; yet when he descended to earth from the heights of heaven\, he did not disdain to assume human nature and bear the sins of men. \nLaying aside his immortality for a while\, he suffered himself to be made mortal\, in order that the innocent could die to save the guilty. He\, the Lord\, was baptized by a servant\, and though he had come to grant forgiveness of sins he did not think it beneath him to wash in the life-giving waters. He fasted for forty days\, yet it is through him that others are filled with good things. If he hungered and thirsted\, it was to enable those who were faint for want of the word and grace of God to be filled with bread from heaven. He engaged in combat with the devil who tempted him\, but was content to defeat his enemy by words alone. \nHe did not govern his disciples as a master rules his slaves. He was kind and gentle\, loving them as brothers\, even washing the feet of the apostles\, showing by his example how a servant should bear himself toward his equals when his master dealt in such a way with his servants. No wonder he could show such goodness to the disciples who obeyed him\, if he was able to bear so long and so patiently with Judas\, eating and drinking with his enemy\, recognizing the foe in his own household yet neither exposing him publicly nor refusing his treacherous kiss. \nAt the time of his Passion and Cross\, even before it had gone as far as the inhuman crucifixion and the shedding of his blood\, how patiently he bore reviling and reproach\, insult and mockery! A little while before\, he had cured the eyes of a blind man with his spittle\, yet now he allowed his tormentors to spit in his face. His servants today scourge the devil and his angels in the name of Christ\, but at the time of his Passion Christ himself submitted to being scourged. He crowns the martyrs with never-fading flowers\, though he himself was crowned with thorns. Others he clothes in the garment of immortality\, yet he himself was stripped of his earthly garments. He had fed them with bread from heaven\, yet he himself was fed with gall; and he who had poured out the saving cup was offered vinegar to drink. \nHe the innocent\, he the just\, he rather who is the embodiment of innocence and justice\, is counted among evil-doers. Truth is confuted by false evidence. The future judge is subjected to judgment; the Word of God is led to the Cross in silence. At the Lord’s crucifixion the stars are thrown into confusion\, the elements are disturbed\, earth trembles\, and night swallows up day. But he himself is silent\, unmoved\, hiding every sign of his godhead throughout the whole duration of his Passion. Enduring all things\, he perseveres to the end\, so that in him patience may be brought to its full measure of perfection. \n3 St Cyprian\, On the Virtue of Patience 6-7 (CSEL 3:401-402); Word in Season II\, 1st ed.
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