Colossians 1:24 (WEB)
Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the assembly,
Catechism · 4
The Anointing of the Sick
“…up and save them. and indeed she exhorts them to contribute to the good of the People of God by freely uniting themselves to the Passion and death of Christ."” — Catechism footnote: LG 11; cf. Jas 5:14-16; Rom 8:17; Col 1:24; 2 Tim 2:11-12; 1 Pet 4:13.
“Thus St. Paul must learn from the Lord that "my grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness," and that the sufferings to be endured can mean that "in my flesh I complete what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his Body, that is, the Church."” — Catechism footnote: 2 Cor 12:9; Col 1:24.
The Creator
“Though often unconscious collaborators with God's will, they can also enter deliberately into the divine plan by their actions, their prayers and their sufferings.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Col 1:24.
Jesus Died Crucified
“In fact Jesus desires to associate with his redeeming sacrifice those who were to be its first beneficiaries.” — Catechism footnote: Cf Mk 10:39; Jn 21:18-19; Col 1:24.
Fathers and councils · 12
Augustine of Hippo
“It is not however one individual, but it is “One Body;” but “Christ’s Body is the Church.”” — editor's note: Col. i. 24.
Read the whole comment“For the members therefore of Christ, for His Body which is the Church, for that same One Man, that is, for that very unity, whereof the Head is above, this Psalm is sung.…Who are they, then, amid whom we travail and groan, if in…” — editor's note: Col. i. 24.
Read the whole comment“For if the sufferings of Christ are in Christ alone, to wit in the Head alone; whence saith a certain member of Him, Paul the Apostle, “In order that I may supply what are wanting of the oppressions of Christ in my flesh”?” — editor's note: Col. i. 24.
Read the whole comment“For it is not in the Head alone that they took place, since it is said to Saul too, “Why persecutest thou Me?” and Paul himself, as if placed as an elect member in the same body, saith, “That I may fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh.”” — editor's note: Col. i. 24.
Read the whole comment“Therefore the rod passed into the serpent, Christ into death; and the serpent again into the rod, whole Christ with His body into the resurrection; which body is the Church; and this shall be in the end of time, signified by the tail, which Moses held, in order that it might return into a rod.” — editor's note: Col. i. 24
Read the whole comment“Wherefore the apostle says, “That I may fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh.”” — editor's note: Col. i. 24
Read the whole comment“Neither let schismatics promise themselves anything of that reward; for similarly, where there is no love, there cannot be righteousness, for “love worketh no ill to his neighbour;” and if they had it, they would not tear in pieces Christ’s body, which is the Church.” — editor's note: Col. i. 24.
Read the whole comment“This the Apostle says in many places, “For His body’s sake, which is the Church;” and again, “But ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.”” — editor's note: Col. i. 24.
Read the whole comment“But new additions are daily being made to this body while the Church is being built up, to which it is said, “Ye are the body of Christ and His members;” and again, “For His body’s sake,” he says, “which is the Church;” and again, “We being many are one head, one body.”” — editor's note: Col. i. 24.
Read the whole comment“Of the same character is what this very apostle said in another place: “Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh.”” — editor's note: Col. i. 24.
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John Chrysostom
“But virtue, even after his labor, he affirms to be light, callingthe laboriousness of our affliction momentary and “light,” and rejoicing in his sufferings, and glorying in his tribulations, and taking a pride in the marks wherewith he had been branded for Christ’s sake.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. iv. 17, xii. 10; Rom. v. 3; Gal. vi. 17; Col. i. 24.
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Tertullian
“As, however, he says elsewhere, that the Church is the body of Christ, so here also (the apostle) declares that he “fills up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in his flesh for His body’s sake, which is the Church.”” — editor's note: Col. i. 24.
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Cross-references · 33
Cited together in Catechism §307.
Cited together in Catechism §307.
Cited together in Catechism §618.
Cited together in Catechism §1499.
Cited together in Catechism §1499.
Cited together in Catechism §1499.
Cited together in Catechism §1499.
Cited together in Catechism §1499.
Cited together in Catechism §618.
Cited together in Catechism §1499.
Cited together in Catechism §307.
Cited together in Catechism §307.
Cited together in Catechism §307.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.5.
Cited together in The City of God XXII.18.
Cited together in Catechism §618.
Cited together in Catechism §618.
Cited together in Catechism §618.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.5.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.5.
Cited together in Catechism §618.
Cited together in Catechism §618.
Cited together in Catechism §307.
Cited together in Catechism §1508.
Cited together in Catechism §1508.
Cited together in Catechism §1508.
Cited together in Catechism §1508.
Cited together in The City of God XXII.18.
Cited together in The City of God XXII.18.
Cited together in The City of God XXII.18.
Cited together in The City of God XXII.18.
Cited together in The City of God XXII.18.
Cited together in The City of God XXII.18.