Thursday, March 12, 2020

The Jews' Passover

Saint Matthew - Chapter 26


The Jews' Passover. J-J tissot
[20] Vespere autem facto, discumbebat cum duodecim discipulis suis.
But when it was evening, he sat down with his twelve disciples.

The room is prepared for the Passover; the draperies, decorated with festoons of foliage, hang as usual between the pillars; the lamp is lit, for it is already night.  The twelve Apostles, with Christ in the midst of them, are beginning the ceremonial of the feast in accordance with the ancient ritual : with robes tucked up, loins girt, sandals on the feet and staff in the hand, in a word, in travelling dress in remembrance of the Exodus from Egypt.  Thus must be accomplished the solemn ceremony every Jew was bound to perform and of which the principal rite was the eating of the Paschal Lamb. 

From The Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ by J-J Tissot (1897)

Totus tuus ego sum 
Et omnia mea tua sunt;
Tecum semper tutus sum:
Ad Jesum per Mariam 

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