Welcome to the special edition of Pints with Aquinas.

Today I'd like to share with you a short meditation

written by Saint Thomas Aquinas for Good Friday.

The death of Christ.

That Christ should die was expedient.

To make our redemption complete.

For although any suffering of Christ had an infinite value

because of its union with His divinity,

it was not by no matter which of His sufferings

that the redemption of mankind was made complete,

but only by His death.

So the Holy Spirit declared speaking through the mouth of Caiaphas.

It is expedient for you that one man shall die for the people.

When Saint Augustine says,

let us stand in wonder, rejoice, be glad, love, praise and adore,

since it is by the death of our Redeemer

that we have been called from death to life,

from exile to our own land, from morning to joy.

To increase our faith, our hope and our charity,

with regard to faith, the Psalm says,

I am alone until I pass from this world that is to the Father.

When I shall have passed to the Father,

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