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as they inform St. Thomas and his major works.

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So I've been invited, I think, fortunately and somewhat providentially to speak this

evening on the meaning of the suffering, the passion, the death, and the resurrection of Jesus

Christ. I think this is fortuitous because, as you know, starting on Sunday, we begin

Holy Week as Catholics, Passion Sunday, Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Saturday, Easter Sunday. And so what I hope to do this

evening is a bit more, it is a lecture, but I also hope that it's a journey spiritually through the

very meaning of what Christ did on the cross.

And in order to do that, we do have to sort of look back on the whole history of salvation,

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