Sermon XL. On the Third Sunday After Easter, opening

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SERMO XL. IN DOMINICA III POST PASCHA.

Iterum videbo vos, et gaudebit cor vestrum: et gaudium vestrum nemo tollet a vobis. Joan. xvi, 22.

Tria occurrunt hic consideranda: I. Qui sint illi, quos iterum Dominus est visurus? II. In quo tempore se eis sit ostensurus? III. Quid sit gaudium, quod nemo deinceps est ablaturus?

I. De primo nota, quod Dominus consolabiliter illos est visurus, qui modo plorant, flent, et tristantur. Unde ipse dicit in præsenti Evangelio: Amen amen dico vobis: quia plorabitis, et flebitis vos..., et contristabimini ¹. Plorare igitur debemus propter multorum bonorum operum omissionem. Flere etiam debemus propter multorum criminum commissionem. Debemus etiam contristari propter diuturnam nostræ peregrinationis ac exsilii prolongationem. Igitur cum dicat Eccle. i, 4: Quod est tempus flendi

SERMON XL. ON THE THIRD SUNDAY AFTER EASTER.

Again I will see you, and your heart will rejoice; and no one will take your joy from you. John 16:22.

Three things occur here to be considered: I. Who are those whom the Lord is going to see again? II. At what time is he going to show himself to them? III. What is the joy that no one afterward is going to take away?

I. On the first, note that the Lord is going to see consolingly those who now lament, weep, and are saddened. Hence he himself says in the present Gospel: Amen, amen, I say to you, that you will lament and weep..., and you will be saddened ¹. Therefore we ought to lament because of the omission of many good works. We also ought to weep because of the commission of many crimes. We also ought to be saddened because of the prolongation of our long pilgrimage and exile. Therefore since Ecclesiastes 1:4 says: That there is a time of weeping

Notes

John 16:20. (Joan. xvi, 20.) ↩