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SUMMARY:Good Friday
DESCRIPTION:From a sermon by 6\nST LEO THE GREAT\n◊◊◊\nWhen our Lord was handed over to the will of his cruel foes\, they ordered him\, in mockery of his royal dignity\, to carry the instrument of his own torture. This was done to fulfill the prophecy of Isaiah: A child is born for us\, a son is given to us; sovereignty is laid upon his shoulders. To the wicked\, the sight of the Lord carrying his own Cross was indeed an object of derision; but to the faithful a great mystery was revealed\, for the Cross was destined to become the scepter of his power. Here was the majestic spectacle of a glorious conqueror mightily overthrowing the hostile forces of the devil and nobly bearing the trophy of his victory. \nAs the crowd accompanied Jesus to the place of execution\, the soldiers found a man called Simon of Cyrene\, onto whose shoulders they transferred the weight of the Lord’s Cross. This action prefigured the faith of the Gentiles\, to whom the Cross of Christ would mean glory rather than shame. By this substitution the atonement of the unblemished lamb and the fulfillment of all the rites of the old Law passed from the people of the circumcision to the Gentiles\, from the children born of the flesh to those born of the spirit. \nIn the words of the Apostle: Christ our Passover is sacrificed. As the new and authentic sacrifice of reconciliation\, it was not in the Temple\, whose cult was now at an end\, that he offered himself to the Father; nor was it within the walls of the city doomed to destruction for its crimes. It was beyond the city gates\, outside the camp\, that he was crucified\, in order that when the ancient sacrificial dispensation came to an end a new victim might be laid on a new altar\, and the Cross of Christ become the altar not of the Temple\, but of the world. \nYou drew all things to yourself\, Lord\, when all the elements combined to pronounce judgment in execration of that crime. Figures gave way to reality\, prophecy to manifestation\, Law to Gospel. You drew all things to yourself in order that the worship of the whole human race could be celebrated everywhere in a sacramental form which would openly fulfill what had been enacted by means of veiled symbols in that single Jewish Temple. \n6\nSt Leo the Great\, Sermon 59.4-6 – Weds in HWK 444 (PL 54:339-341); Word in Season II\, 1st ed.
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SUMMARY:Holy Saturday
DESCRIPTION:From a homily by 7\nST AUGUSTINE\n◊◊◊\nToday\, my dearest friends\, there is every reason for heaven to rejoice and earth to be glad. It is a day on which more light shines forth from the tomb than rays from the sun. When our Lord and Savior was born as one of us he brought light into the world; so also today\, being dead in the body\, he has illumined the underworld with the powerful presence of his divinity as well as of his human soul. Today at the Lord’s visitation there is leaping and dancing in the nether regions over the fulfillment of the prophecy: The people that sat in darkness(that is to say the whole human race enveloped in the gloom of Sheol) has seen a great light. He who created Adam has this day sought him out in the underworld\, and by his own power has set him free. \nWonderful beyond words is the loving kindness of our God! Death had indeed invaded Paradise\, but life has now conquered the abyss\, and by assuming our mortality the Son of God has trodden underfoot the law that all must die. Thus he has made good the prophet’s assertion: O death\, I will be your death! Those whom you have caused to die through sin I will gather up from that place of eternal ruin\, and by dying myself I will deliver them from everlasting death. \nLook now at the author of our undoing! With what snares he is entangled and fettered! As he deceived us\, so he is himself deceived; in the very act of killing he is destroyed. \nWhen the Lord’s body was laid in the tomb\, he himself descended into the lowest and most hidden abode of the infernal regions. There\, where he was presumed to be held captive\, he bound death fast\, and so broke the chains of all who had died. And from that place whence none had ever returned before\, not even alone\, he carried off an immense plunder with which he penetrated the heavens. \nSee what tremendous things God’s surpassing love has accomplished for our healing and restoration! For our sake he was led like a sheep to the slaughter\, having taken upon himself the evils of this present life in order to bestow upon us the good things of eternity. \n7\nSermo Mai 146: PLS 2\, 1242-1243(CL I p 168-169).
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SUMMARY:Welcome: LCG Chicago 9:00 am CDT
DESCRIPTION:All are welcome to visit with the Chicago lay Community at: \nJoin Zoom Meeting \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86028356465 \nMeeting ID: 860 2835 6465 \nOne tap mobile \n+13126266799\,\,86028356465# US (Chicago) \n+13092053325\,\,86028356465# US
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