St Thomas Aquinas' Lenten Meditation - Friday after the 2nd Sunday of Lent
St Thomas Aquinas' Lenten Meditation: Friday After the Second Sunday
Feast of the Holy Winding Sheet
Joseph taking the body, wrapped it up in a clean linen cloth and laid it in his own new monument.-- Matt, xxvii. 59.
By this clean linen cloth three things are signified in a hidden way, namely:
(i) The pure body of Christ. For the cloth was made of linen which by much pressing is made white and in like manner it was after much pressure that the body of *Christ* came to the brightness of the resurrection. Thus it behoved *Christ* to suffer, and to rise again from the dead the third day (Luke xxiv. 46).
(ii) The Church, which without spot or wrinkle (Eph. v. 27), is signified by this linen woven out of many threads.
(iii) A clear conscience, where *Christ* reposes.
And laid him in his own new monument. It was Joseph's own grave and certainly it was some how appropriate that he who had died for the sins of others should be buried in another man's grave.
Notice that it was a new grave. Had other bodies already been laid in it, there might have been a doubt which had arisen. There is another fitness in this circumstance, namely that he who was buried in this new grave, was He who was born of a virgin mother.
As Mary's womb knew no child before Him nor after Him, so was it with this grave. Again we may understand that it is in a soul renewed that *Christ* is buried by faith, that *Christ* may dwell by faith in our hearts (Eph. iii. 17).
St. John's Gospel adds, Now there was in the place where He was crucified, a garden ; and in the garden a new sepulchre (John xix. 41). Which recalls to us that as *Christ* was taken in a garden and suffered His agony in a garden, so in a garden was He buried, and thereby we are reminded that it was from the sin committed by Adam in the garden of delightfulness that, by the power of His Passion, *Christ* set us free, and also that through the Passion the Church was consecrated, the Church which again is as a garden closed.
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