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616 CITY OF GOD
not in thy mortal flesh understand what passed in my
soul in contemplating the holy Church. In addition to
what thou hast understood already, thou wilt see more,
if thou consider what moved my heart; namely, the
loving works of my divine Son in the interest of the
holy Church; they should be thy meditation day and
night; for in what He did for the Church, thou wilt be
able to estimate his love toward it. In order to be its
Head and the Chief of the predestined in this world
and forever (Col. 1, 18; Rom. 8, 29), He descended from
the bosom of the eternal Father and assumed flesh in my
womb. In order to regain his children (Luke 19, 10),
lost through the first sin of Adam, He took passible and
mortal flesh. In order to leave the example of his un
blemished life and his true and salutary doctrine
(I Pet.
2, 21), He lived and conversed with men thirty-three
years (Baruch 3, 38). In order to redeem them ef
fectually and merit for them infinite blessings of grace
and glory, which they themselves could not merit, He
suffered most cruelly, shed his blood accepting a most
painful and frightful death on the Cross (Phil. 2, 8).
In order that from his sacred body after its death might
spring mysteriously his Church, He permitted
it to be
torn by the lance (John 19, 34).
729. Since the eternal Father was so well pleased with
his Life,
Passion and Death, the Redeemer instituted in
his Church the sacrifice of his body and blood (Luke 22,
19), in which his memory should live and which the faith
ful might offer as a satisfaction and peace-offering to
the divine Justice. At the same time through
wished to remain perpetually present in his Church as
a Sacrament for the spiritual nourishment of its chil
dren and as a fountain of grace, a viaticum and certain
pledge of eternal life. In
it He
addition to this He sent upon
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