“He stooped down to us, that He might raise up a people who before lay prone. He was wounded, that He might heal our wounds. He became Himself a servant, that He might deliver the enslaved. He submitted to death, that He might confer immortality on mortal men.”
Source: "The Sunday Sermons of the Great Fathers," Volume II; St. Cyprian's sermon "On Good Works and Almsdeeds" for the 4th Sunday of Lent, page 113; Henry Regnery Company (copyright 1958); Imprimatur: E. Morrogh Bernard, Vic. Gen. Westmonasterii; Nihil Obstat: Hubertus Richards, S.T.L., L.S.S., Censor Deputatus
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