Monday, October 16 : Book of hours of Sinai

In the bowels of the sea monster, Jonas, his arms extended in the shape of a cross, clearly foreshadowed the passion that saves us and, escaping the third day, he prefigured your transcendent resurrection, Christ our God, who in your flesh was nailed In the wood and, when you come up on the third day, have illuminated the world. You the Son by nature, the Word matured by piety, you assumed in your being the form of the sons of the earth, fallen from dignity, and you carry in you both forms, that of the divine nature, consubstantial that you are to the Father, and that of human nature, in that you are also mortal : In your mortal nature, you have undergone the sufferings of the passion. (…) The dead come back to life, they arise all together from their tombs, while you are fixed at the cross, O Christ, because hell feared to confront you, in the fear of this new life which caused death to be isolated, captive and without recourse: but in the end, counted among the dead, after having made him release all those he had swallowed, you too resurrected on the third day.

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