The Greatness of the Pain of Christ in the Passion

Taken from Medulla S. Thomae Aquinatis which arranges various short texts from St. Thomas Aquinas' corpus based on the liturgical year. I will be posting the day's meditation each day and will be bringing it into print once I'm through it.

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Wednesday after the First Sunday of Lent

The Greatness of the Pain of Christ in the Passion

O all ye that pass by the way attend, and see if there be any sorrow like unto My sorrow. (Lamentations 1:12)

There was true and sensible pain in the suffering Christ, which is caused by something hurtful to the body: also, there was internal pain, which is caused from the apprehension of something hurtful, and this is termed sadness. And in Christ each of these was the greatest in this present life. This arose from four causes:

1. From the sources of His pain. For the cause of the sensitive pai