Posted by father john george
on November 3, 2009, 9:45 pm, in reply to "as for dresser comment trent did not explain original sin cf catechism of trent"
"Was Crucified"
The fact that He suffered death precisely on the wood of the cross must also be attributed to a particular counsel of God, which decreed that life should return by the way whence death had arisen The serpent who had triumphed over our first parents by the wood (of a tree) was vanquished by Christ on the wood of the cross.
Many other reasons which the Fathers have discussed in detail might be adduced to show that it was fit that our Redeemer should suffer death on the cross rather than in any other way. But, as the pastor will show" it is enough for the faithful to believe that this kind of death was chosen by the Saviour because it appeared better adapted and more appropriate to the redemption of the human race; for there certainly could be none more ignominious and humiliating. Not only among the Gentiles was the punishment of the cross held accursed and full of shame and infamy, but even in the Law of Moses the man is called accursed that hangeth on a tree.
--Previous Message--
: First Effect Of Baptism: Remission Of Sin
: They are to be taught, in the first place,
: that such is the admirable efficacy of this
: Sacrament that it remits original sin and
: actual guilt, however unthinkable its
: enormity may seem.
:
: This was foretold long before by Ezechiel,
: through whom God said: I will pour upon you
: clean water, and you shall be cleansed from
: all your filthiness. The Apostle also,
: writing to the Corinthians, after having
: enumerated a long catalogue of sins, adds:
: such you were, but you are washed, but you
: are sanctified.
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: That such was at all times the doctrine
: handed down by holy Church is clear. By the
: generation of the flesh, says St. Augustine
: in his book On the Baptism of Infants, we
: contract original sin only; by the
: regeneration of the Spirit, we obtain
: forgiveness not only of original, but also
: of actual sins. St. Jerome also, writing to
: Oceanus, says: all sins are forgiven in
: Baptism.
:
: To remove all further doubt on the subject,
: the Council of Trent, after other Councils
: had defined this, declared it anew,
: pronouncing anathema against those who
: should presume to think otherwise, or should
: dare to assert that although sin is forgiven
: in Baptism, it is not entirely removed or
: totally eradicated, but is cut away in such
: a manner as to leave its roots still fixed
: in the soul. To use the words of the same
: holy Council, God hates nothing in those who
: are regenerated; for there remains nothing
: deserving of condemnation in those who are
: truly buried with Christ by Baptism unto
: death, "who walk not according to the
: flesh" but putting off the old man, and
: putting on the new, who is created according
: to God, become innocent, spotless, pure,
: upright, and beloved of God.
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: Concupiscence Which Remains After Baptism Is
: No Sin
: We must confess, however, that
: concupiscence, or the fuel of sin, still
: remains, as the Council declares in the same
: place. But concupiscence does not constitute
: sin, for, as St. Augustine observes, in
: children who have been baptised the guilt of
: concupiscence is removed, (the concupiscence
: itself) remains for probation; and in
: another place he says: the guilt of
: concupiscence is pardoned in Baptism, but
: its infirmity remains. For concupiscence
: which is the effect of sin is nothing more
: than an appetite of the soul in itself
: repugnant to reason. But if it is not
: accompanied by the consent of the will or by
: negligence, it is very far from being sin.
:
: When St. Paul says, I did not know
: concupiscence, if the law did not say: Thou
: shalt not covet, he speaks not of
: concupiscence itself, but of the fault of
: the will.
:
: The same doctrine is taught by St. Gregory
: when he says: If there are any who assert
: that in Baptism sin is but superficially
: effaced, what could be more untrue than
: their statement? By the Sacrament of faith
: the soul, entirely freed from sin, adheres
: to God alone. In proof of this doctrine he
: has recourse to the testimony of our Saviour
: who says in St. John: He that is
: �washed, needeth not but to wash his
: feet, but is clean wholly.
:
:
: Further Proof Of The First Effect Of Baptism
: Should anyone desire a striking figure and
: image (of the efficacy of Baptism) let him
: consider the history of Naaman the Syrian
: leper, of whom the Scriptures inform us that
: when he had washed seven times in the waters
: of the Jordan he was so cleansed from his
: leprosy that his flesh became like the flesh
: of a child.
:
: The remission of all sin, original and
: actual, is therefore the peculiar effect of
: Baptism. That this was the object of its
: institution by our Lord and Saviour is
: clearly stated by the Prince of the
: Apostles, to say nothing of other
: testimonies, when he says: Do penance and be
: baptised every one of you, in the name of
: Jesus Christ, for the remission of sins.
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