145: 5 Lessons from the passion of Christ

Pints With Aquinas

Matt Fradd

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🗓️ 12 February 2019

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Here's the text from Aquinas we read this week:

From all this then is seen the effect of the passion of Christ as a remedy for sin. But no less does it profit us as an example. St. Augustine says that the passion of Christ can bring about a complete reformation of our lives. Whoever wishes to live perfectly need do nothing other than despise what Christ despised on the cross, and desire what Christ desired. There is no virtue that did not have its example on the Cross.

So if you seek an example of charity, then, “greater love than this no one has, than to lay down his life for his friends” [Jn 15:13]. And this Christ did upon the Cross. If, therefore, He gave His life or us, we ought to endure any and all evils for Him: “What shall I render to the Lord for all the things that He has done for me?” [Ps 15:12].

If you seek an example of patience, you will find it in its highest degree upon the Cross. Great patience is exemplified in two ways: either when one suffers intensely in all patience, or when one suffers that which he could avoid if he so wished. Christ suffered greatly upon the Cross: “All you who pass by the way, look and see if there is any sorrow like My sorrow” [Lam 1:12]. And with all patience, because, “when He suffered, He did not threaten” [1 Pet 2:23]. And again: “He shall be led as a sheep to the slaughter and shall be dumb before His shearer, and shall not open His mouth” [Is 53:7]. He could have avoided this suffering, but He did not: “Do you think that I cannot ask My Father, and He will give Me presently more than twelve legions of Angels?” [Mt 26:23]. The patience of Christ upon the cross, therefore, was of the highest degree: “Let us run by patience to the fight proposed to us; looking on Jesus, the author and finisher of faith, who, having joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame” [Heb 12:1-2].

If you seek an example of humility, look upon Him who is crucified; although He was God, He chose to be judged by Pontius Pilate and to be put to death: “Your cause has been judged as that of the wicked” [Job 36:17]. Truly “that of the wicked,” because: “Let us condemn Him to a most shameful death” [Wis 2:20]. The Lord chose to die for His servant; the Life of the Angels suffered death for man: “He humbled Himself, becoming obedient unto death, even to the death of the cross” [Phil 2:8].

If you seek an example of obedience, imitate Him who was obedient to the Father unto death: “For by the disobedience of one man, many were made sinners; so also by the obedience of one, many shall be made just” [Rom 5:19].

If you seek an example of contempt for earthly things, imitate Him who is the King of kings, the Lord of rulers, in whom are all the treasures of wisdom; but on the Cross He was stripped naked, ridiculed, spat upon, bruised, crowned with thorns, given to drink of vinegar and gall, and finally put to death. How falsely, therefore, is one attached to riches and raiment, for: “They divided My garments amongst them; and upon My robe they cast lots” [Ps 21:19]. How falsely to honors, since “I was covered with lashes and insults;” how falsely to positions of power, because “taking a crown of thorns, they placed it upon My brow;” how falsely to delicacies of the table, for “in My thirst they gave Me to drink of vinegar” [Ps 68:22]. Thus, St. Augustine, in commenting on these words, “Who, having joy set before Him, endured the Cross despising the shame” [Heb 12:2]. says: “The man Christ despised all earthly things in order to teach us to despise them.

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0:00.0	G'day, g'day, welcome to Pines of the Quinus. My name is Matt Fred. If you could sit down with Thomas Aquinas over a pint of beer and ask him any one question, what would it be?
0:10.5	Today's episode we're going to ask Aquinas Aquinas, we're going to ask Aquinas to share with us five things we can learn from the Passion of Christ.
0:31.0	Hey, thanks for being back here. Pines of the Quinus to show where you and I pull up a bar stall next to the angelic doctor to discuss the LG and philosophy.
0:40.0	Today we're going to look at a section of Aquinas' commentary on the Creed. He shares five things we can learn from the Passion of Christ on the Cross. It's really powerful, awesome stuff.
0:50.0	After that, I'm going to take some of your questions. I actually... One of the questions is going to be, I know this because I've just recorded the episode and I came back now to record the intro.
1:03.0	One of the questions was, would I rather fight a hundred Cameron Fred, that's my wife, 100 Cameron Fred sized Bishop Robert Barons, or one Bishop Robert Barron sized Cameron Fred?
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1:41.0	We hear some of the guests we have coming up who are almost certain to be on the show. There's a chance a couple of them may not be able to do it, but almost certainly Matt Walsh from the Daily Wire, Father Mike Schmitz, Trent Horn, Father Gregory Pine, who we've had on the podcast before. Stephanie Gray, who speaks out against abortion. We're going to have catching foxes.
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2:33.0	So like one of the things I'm doing right now is I'm going through the sum of the L.O.G.A. and I'm taking the article titles and the main responses of Thomas Aquinas and I'm editing it all into a three volume set for Amazon.
2:49.0	So this is something that people have recommended in the past. Like if you're going to read the summa, don't read the objections and the said contrary and the reply to the objections.
2:56.0	Just read the article and then Aquinas's main response. That way you won't get bogged down in the weeds and you actually be able to read through the bulk of the summa, the L.O.G.A.
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