A Meditation on the Resurrection of Jesus Christ by St. Thomas Aquinas

Hello, hello. Welcome to Pines with Aquinas. Today I'm going to share with you four things. I did three and then the fourth came up. Four things that we can learn from our Savior's resurrection. This comes from Thomas Aquinas from his commentary on the creed. So I'm not going to do a lot of commentary because, you know, if you comment on Thomas Aquinas then the intellectual level dips significantly. So here we go. First of all, we learn that we should strive to rise spiritually from the death of the soul which we have caused by sin and rise to a life of justice which is acquired through penance. Secondly, from our Lord's resurrection, we should learn not to defer rising spiritually until death is upon us but rise now and promptly for Christ rose for our example on the third day because you will delay not to be converted to the Lord and defer it not from day to day because you will not be able even to think of those things pertaining to your salvation when serious illness comes upon you and also because by delaying your conversion you lose part of all the good things which the church accomplishes and what is worse you incur many evils because of your perseverance in sins likewise in as much as the devil possesses you for a long time so much the more difficult will it be for you to rid yourself of satan you might be watching me today and maybe you haven't been to confession in five years 10 years 40 years 50 years get to confession now stop the video run don't walk run was that strong enough thirdly we should learn to rise to an incorruptible life so that we may not die again that is having firmly resolved to do penance we may not sin again from romans 6 9 we read christ rising from the dead dieth now no more death shall no more have dominion over him and further on in 6 roman 6 11 so you also reckon that you are dead to sin but alive to god in jesus christ our lord let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body so as to obey the lusts of the flesh neither yield ye your members as instruments of iniquity unto sin but present yourselves to god as those that are alive from the dead and your members as instruments of justice unto god here's the fourth and final thing fourthly from our savior's resurrection we should learn to rise to a new and glorious life so that we may avoid everything which was before the occasion and cause of our spiritual death and of sin that is christ is risen from the dead by the glory of the father so we also may walk in newness of life romans 6 4 and this new life is a life of justice which renews our soul and leads us unto a life of everlasting glory christ is risen from the dead trampling over death by death glory to god