Saturday, April 4, 2020

The dead appear in the Temple

Saint Matthew - Chapter 27


The dead appear in the Temple. J-J Tissot
[52] et monumenta aperta sunt : et multa corpora sanctorum, qui dormierant, surrexerunt.
And the graves were opened: and many bodies of the saints that had slept arose,


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

The apparition in the Temple of the departed must have produced a profound impression of dismay upon the consciences of the Jews, for, as is well known, those who came in contact with the dead were rendered impure, and such contact must, according to the Jewish belief, neutralise the efficacy of the Paschal sacrifices.  This is why the Levites are running away alike shocked and terrified.

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


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