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This is RCT number 22, reasons why Christ suffered. RCT stands for the Roman Catechism

of Trent. Today we are on pages 57 to 61. This is the Creed Article 4, Part C.

God give you his peace, and nominipatri, Sifidi, et spiti tu santi, amen.

O heavenly king, comfort or spirit of truth who are everywhere present and philist all things,

treasury of good things and giver of life, come and dwell in us,

and cleanse us of all impurity and save our souls, O good one.

And omni pachi, Siphiti, it speedi to santi, amen.

The catechism again, useful considerations on the passion.

When the faithful have once attained the knowledge of these things, the pastors should next proceed to explain those particulars of

the passion and death of Christ, which may enable them, if not to comprehend, at least to contemplate

the immensity of so stupendous a mystery. The dignity of the sufferer. And first we must consider who it is that suffers all these things.

His dignity we cannot express in words or even conceive in mind. Of him, St. John says that he is the

word which was with God, John 1-1. And the apostle describes him in sublime terms, saying that this is he whom

God hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the world, who, being the brightness

of his glory, and the figure of his substance and upholding all things by the word of his power,

making purgation of sins, siteth on the right hand of the

majesty on high, Hebrews 1, verses 2 to 3. In a word Jesus Christ, the God man suffers. The Creator

suffers for his creatures, the master for his servant. He suffers by whom the angels, men, the

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