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   #WhiteRepentanceMonth - Day #7
   Augustine and the Internal Sacrament of the Contrite Heart
   
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   We have a doozy of a post today as we will be looking at the first Church Father on repentance, perhaps the most famous one, Augustine of Hippo. This is part of a sermon he preached in Carthage, in 412 AD, when the basilica of Carthage's cathedral had finished being restored having been previously lost or destroyed during the previous century. What all should note is that, for Augustine's point, the act a repentance is a personal sacrament one render's unto God as your sacrifice to Him. This sacrifice pleases the Lord as the repentance is united to Christ, who was being signified throughout Scripture as being our ultimate sacrificial lamb. The relevant section will be split into two posts due to its length.
   
   ｢Do you wish to be reconciled with God? Understand what you must do with yourself if God is to be reconciled with you. Notice where it says in this same psalm, Because if you had wanted a sacrifice I would certainly have given one; in holocausts you will not delight (Ps. 51:16). Shall you be without any sacrifice at all, then? Nothing you can offer, no offering to appease God with? What was it you said? 7f you had wanted a sacrifice I would certainly have given one. Carry on, and listen, and say, A sacrifice for God is a contrite spirit; a contrite and humbled heart God does not spurn (Ps. 51:16).
   
   After the things you used to offer have been abandoned, you have found something to offer still. In the time of the ancestors you used to offer victims from your herds, and they were called sacrifices. “If you had wanted a sacrifice I would certainly have given one. So you don’t require that sort of thing anymore, and yet you still require a sacrifice. Your people says to you, ‘What am I to offer, seeing that I no longer offer what I used to offer?’ ”
   
   It’s the same people, you see, some passing away and others being born, it’s the same people now as then. The sacraments and symbols have changed, not the faith.’ The signs by which something was signified have changed, not the thing that was signified. It was Christ that was represented by a ram, Christ by a lamb, Christ by a calf, Christ by a goat —everything was Christ. The ram was, because it leads the flock; it was found in the thorns when our father Abraham was ordered to spare his son, but not to depart without offering any sacrifice.* Isaac was Christ, and the ram was Christ. Isaac carried the wood for sacrificing himself, Christ was burdened with his own cross. The ram was substituted for Isaac, but not of course Christ for Christ. But Christ was in both Isaac and the ram. The ram was caught by its horns in the thornbush; ask the Jews what they crowned the Lord with that time.’ He is the lamb: Behold the lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world (John 1:29). He is the bull: observe the horns of the cross. He is the goat, because of the likeness of sinful flesh (Rom. 8:3). All these things were veils, until the day should dawn and the shadows be removed (Songs 2:17).｣
   
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