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So let's talk about, so a lot of similar themes with regard to what Dr. Noia talked about this morning,

specifically making up what's lacking.

That's, of course, reference to the Colossians passage

that she cited, and we'll be talking more about that, and the suffering of the members of Christ's

fight of the church, with a particular emphasis on disability. I'll be closing with that.

But I begin by drawing your attention not to the Gospels or to the New Testament,

but something I did yesterday to classical literature, specifically Homer, I like him a lot.

A strange place to begin a reflection on Christ's suffering in our participation.

And though maybe not, I hold up for your consideration perhaps the most celebrated scene in all of Homeric literature.

If you've read the Iliad, does anyone read the Iliad?

Okay, so you might recall it.

So I'm speaking of the moment towards the close of the Iliad.

This is one of the Trojan Wars near its end and the elderly and frail King Priam of Troy,

cloaked in secrecy and abject lowliness, and exposed in his frailties and vulnerabilities,

comes at night to the tent of his arch nemesis Achilles to beg for the dead body of his son Hector,

whom Achilles had slain in avengeful rage.

Achilles would not relent in his rage, implacably refusing to hand over the body of Hector, thereby denying Hector rest in

the underworld, a great degradation for his surviving family. So Priam enters the tent, disguised, the tent of the petulant Achilles.

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