“What mercy could be greater, so far as we poor
wretches are concerned, than that which drew the Creator of the heavens down
from heaven, clothed the Maker of the earth with earthly vesture, made Him, who
in eternity remains equal to His Father, equal to us in mortality, and imposed
on the Lord of the universe the form of a servant, so that He, our Bread, might
hunger; that He, our Fulfillment, might thirst; that He, our Strength, might be
weakened; that He, our Health, might be injured; that He, our Life, might die?
And all this [He did] to satisfy our hunger, to moisten our dryness, to soothe
our infirmity, to wipe out our iniquity, to enkindle our charity. What greater
mercy could there be than that the Creator be created, the Ruler be served, the
Redeemer be sold, the Exalted be humbled and the Reviver be killed?” — Theologian,
philosopher, and bishop St. Augustine of Hippo (354 AD-430 AD), The Fathers of the Church: St. Augustine: Sermons on the Liturgical Seasons,
Volume 38, Sermon 207, translated by Sister Mary Sarah Muldowney (1959)
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