The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-31


able to leave of lamenting.
HAnd John. seeing that night approached.
said TO Mary: Lady, see what hour ii is;
the night begins TO overcome the day.
Consent to Joseph. and suffer the body of
Jesus to be shrouded and buried" Then
Mary remembered how the Lord had given
her into the keeping of John, and to him
she consented. So Joseph and Nicodemus
began to envelop the body at the middle.
And when they had come TO the feet Mary
Magdelene said unto them: Il pray you,
leave this part TO me. / wish 20 put in the
shroud the feet before which my sins We're
forgiven" Then she looked at the feet
very attentively, ~beholding how they were
pierced by the nails. torn and bruised and
smeared with blood. And she washed with
plying and compassionate tears those feet
which formerly she had washed with tears
of contrition. A~fterward, very gently, she
dried them with her hair: then enveloped
and shrouded them the best that she could.
FAREWELL TO THE SON.
And Mary, putting her face upon that OF
her son, said to Him very sadly: M dear
ly beloved son, now art Thou dead upon my
bosom. 1t must be that 1, Thy Borrowing
mother, bury Thee. But how am 1 able to
live without Thee? Most gladly would / be
buried with Thee, but since bodily l cannot
be, 1 leave Thee my soul, and recon-
mend it to Thee. Dearest son, how full OF
anguish is this separation When, now.
she had bathed His visage with her tears.
she kissed Him on the mouth, then shroud-
ed and enveloped the head.
Now, when they had done what was GUS
tomary for the body of the Lord, and
washed Him, it remained but to put him in
the sepulchre. Joseph also had collected,
in the vessel which the Lord had used to
drink and break the bread at the last sup
per, the drops of blood that fell from the
wounds, after the body was taken down
from the cross. For as soon as he knew
that the Lord was dead, he had gone to
the house and carried away the vessel for
this purpose. And he preserved t always
with veneration, for it gave to it's possessor
the privilege of being in direct communica-
ton with God. Nicodemus, also, preserved
the linen cloth upon which the body of
the Lord lay, and upon which its image was
imprinted. Then they placed the body in
Joseph's own tomb, hewn out of the rock,
in which no one had ever lain, in what
was called the Garden of Joseph. And this
tomb was once prepared for Joshua, the
son of Nun.
And in carrying the body of Jesus to the
sepulchre Mary supported the head, Mary
Magdalene the feet. and the others the
body. weeping tenderly. The bereavd
mother, also. when it was in the tomb, so
looked at it, and to touch it bent so low
that almost she fell in, so that Joseph and
Nicodemus raised her up. And they rolled
before the sepulchre a stone so great hat
c0ornnIy oa.,lI kH~o1 ~
this stone was the same out of which water
once flowed forth in the desert for the chill
dren of Israel. And Mary. in great grief,
said, 30 friends, have pity upon me, and
help me to take away this stone, putting
me in with my son."
BITTER LAMENTATIONS.
And the mother of the Lord said, weep
ing: How am L not to lament Thee, my
son? How should L not tear my face with
my nails? This is that, my son, which
SymeOn the elder foretold to me when I
brought Thee. an infant of forty days old,
into the temple. mis- is the sword which
now goeth through my soul. Who shall
put a stop TO my tears. my sweetest son?
No one at all except myself alone if, as
Thou saidst. Thou shalt rise again I'm three
days" Mary Magdalene also said, weep
ing: Hear. o peoples, tribes and tongues.
and learn to what death the lawless Jews
have delivered Him who did them ten thou
sand good deeds. Hear and be astonished.
Who will let these things be heard by all
the world? 1 shall go alone TO Rome, to the
Caesar. l shall show him what evil PLATE
hath done in obeying the lawless Jews"
Likewise Joseph also lamented, saying:
"Ah me. sweetest Jesus, most excellent of
men, If indeed it be proper to call Thee
man, who hast wrought such miracles as no
man hath ever done. How shall 1 enshroud
Thee? How shall L entomb Thee? There
should have been here those whom Thou
fedst with a few loaves, for thus should
not have seemed to fail in what is due"
Then Joseph. along with Nicodemus. went
home. Likewise also the mother Of the
Lord, with the women. John also being
present with them, returned and abode on
Mount Zion in the house where the Master
supped.
AND the apostles, with their companions.
were grieved. and, being wounded in mind.
they hid themselves, for they were being
sought for by them as malefactors and as
wishing to set fire to the temple. And
upon all these things they tasted and sat
mourning and weeping night and day until
the Sabbath.
But the scribes and Pharisees and elders.
being gathered together one with another.
when they heard that all the people MUIR
INJURED and beat their breasts. saying. eff
by His death these most mighty signs have
come TO pass see how just He is" were
afraid. And they went away to PLATE. be-
seeching him and saying: My lord, that
deceiver said that after three days He
should rise again. Give us soldiers and or
der His tomb to be guarded for three DAYS
lest His disciples come and steal Him away
by night and the people. led astray by such
deceit, suppose that He is risen from the
dead and do us evil" And Plate gave them
Petronius, the centurion, with five hundred
soldiers to guard the tomb. Who also sat
round the sepulchre so as to guard it after
having put seals upon the stone OF the
tomb. This also they fastened with iron
clamps so that it was impossible to open it
by ordinary means. And with them came
the elders and scribes to the sepulchre.
These watchers were Issachar, Cad, Mat
thias, Barnabas and Simeon. They. too,
affixed seven seals to the tomb, and. pitch
ing a tent, together with the centurion and
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