Br. John Metilly, O.P., on Jesus as the Most Magnanimous Man

"Meditating on the Passion of Christ is like looking at a diamond which sparkles and shines from whichever way we examine it. On the cross, Jesus manifested the supreme possession of virtue in all its manifold brilliance. Recently, I was reading Aristotle's description of the magnanimous man in his Nicomachean Ethics, and it struck me that the virtue of magnanimity applies supremely to Christ Crucified. To be magnanimous means to be great-souled. This virtue is described as the flowering of the man who lacks no virtue. Just as the body which has complete proportion is beautiful, so the soul that is complete in virtue is magnanimous. Christ shows himself to be magnanimous in many ways."

In a recent commentary based on the writings of Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas, Brother John Metilly, O.P., reflected on how Jesus fits the description of the most magnanimous man.

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