Sixth Day of Spring - Easter Sunday
It is Easter Day, that is, the day of the passage from death to eternal life. Ieshu manifests himself three times on this day, each time without a physical body but with his ethereal body. He is fully alive, fully conscious. The statue of Ieshu was removed from the Fire Room on Friday. At dawn, a clear veil is placed on which Ieshu is painted with his glorious body.
Gospel Reading On the day after the Sabbath, very early in the morning, Miriam of Magdala and Miriam, the mother of James, came trembling to the tomb they had found empty. Suddenly, Ieshu appeared to them, saying, "Greetings." They approached, bowed down, and Magdalene wanted to kiss his feet. But Ieshu said to her, "Do not touch me." Later that same day, two disciples were on the road to Emmaus, about sixty stadia from Jerusalem, discussing all that had happened. While they were talking and discussing together, Ieshu himself approached and walked with them. Although it was Ieshu, something prevented them from recognizing him. He asked them, "What are you discussing as you walk along?" And one of them, named Cleophas, replied, "Are you the only one visiting Jerusalem who doesn’t know what has happened there in these days regarding Ieshu of Nazareth?" As they approached the village where they were headed, the stranger acted as if he were going farther. But they urged him, saying, "Stay with us, because it is almost evening; the day is nearly over." So he went in to stay with them. While he was at the table with them, he took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them. Then their eyes were opened, and they recognized him. But he disappeared from their sight. They got up immediately, returned to Jerusalem, and found the Eleven gathered together. They told them what had happened on the road. While they were still talking about this, Ieshu himself stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you." |
"Jesus said to John: Thou hearest of me suffering, yet I have not suffered; pierced, yet was I not smitten; hanged, but was not hanged; blood flowing from me, yet it did not flow. And in a word, what they say of me, these things I did not have; while what they do not say, those I have suffered. Understand me then as the slaying of a Word, wound of a Word, hanging of a Word, suffering of a Word, fastening of a Word, death of a Word, resurrection of a Word, and defining this Word, I mean every man!" (From the Acts of St. John:)
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