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The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ.Anne Catherine EmmerichThe supper-room, properly so called, was nearly in the centre of the court; its length was greaterthan its width; it was surrounded by a row of low pillars, and if the spaces between the pillars hadbeen cleared, would have formed a part of the large inner room, for the whole edifice was, as itwere, transparent; only it was usual, except on special occasions, for the passages to be closed up.The room was lighted by apertures at the top of the walls. In front, there was first a vestibule, intowhich three doors gave entrance; next, the large inner room, where several lamps hung from theplatform; the walls were ornamented for the festival, half way up, with beautiful matting or tapestry,and an aperture had been made in the roof, and covered over with transparent blue gauze.71The back part of this room was separated from the rest by a curtain, also of blue transparent gauze.This division of the supper-room into three parts gave a resemblance to the Temple—thus formingthe outer Court, the Holy, and the Holy of Holies. In the last of these divisions, on both sides, thedresses and other things necessary for the celebration of the feast were placed. In the centre therewas a species of altar. A stone bench raised on three steps, and of a rectangular triangular shape,came out of the wall; it must have constituted the upper part of the oven used for roasting the PaschalLamb, for to-day the steps were quite heated during the repast. I cannot describe in detail all thatthere was in this part of the room, but all kinds of arrangements were being made there for preparingthe Paschal Supper. Above this hearth or altar, there was a species of niche in the wall, in front ofwhich I saw an image of the Paschal Lamb, with a knife in its throat, and the blood appearing toflow drop by drop upon the altar; but I do not remember distinctly how that was done. In a nichein the wall there were three cupboards of various colours, which turned like our tabernacles, foropening or closing. A number of vessels used in the celebration of the Pasch were kept in them;later, the Blessed Sacrament was placed there.In the rooms at the sides of the supper-room, there were some couches, on which thick coverlidsrolled up were placed, and which could be used as beds. There were spacious cellars beneath thewhole of this building. The Ark of the Covenant was formerly deposited under the very spot wherethe hearth was afterwards built. Five gutters, under the house, served to convey the refuse to theslope of the hill, on the -upper part of which the house was built. I had previously seen Jesus preachand perform miraculous cures there, and the disciples frequently passed the night in the side rooms.MEDITATION III.Arrangements for eating the Paschal Lamb.WHEN the disciples had spoken to Heli of Hebron, the latter went back into the house by the court,but they turned to the right, and hastened down the north side of the hill, through Sion. They passedover a bridge, and walking along a road covered with brambles, reached the other side of the ravine,which was in front of the Temple, and of the row of houses which were to the south of that building.There stood the house of the aged Simeon, who died in the Temple after the presentation of our38
The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ.Anne Catherine Emmerich72Lord; and his sons, some of whom were disciples of Jesus in secret, were actually living there. TheApostles spoke to one of them, a tall dark-complexioned man, who held some office in the Temple.They went with him to the eastern side of the Temple, through that part of Ophel by which Jesusmade his entry into Jerusalem on Palm-Sunday, and thence to the cattle-market, which stood in thetown, to the north of the Temple. In the southern part of this market I saw little enclosures in whichsome beautiful lambs were gambolling about. Here it was that lambs for the Pasch were bought. Isaw the son of Simeon enter one of these enclosures; and the lambs gambolled round him as if theyknew him. He chose out four, which were carried to the supper-room. In the afternoon I saw himin the supper-room, engaged in preparing the Paschal Lamb.I saw Peter and John go to several different parts of the town, and order various things. I saw themalso standing opposite the door of a house situated to the north of Mount Calvary, where the disciplesof Jesus lodged the greatest part of the time, and which belonged to Seraphia (afterwards calledVeronica). Peter and John sent some disciples from thence to the supper-room, giving them severalcommissions, which I have forgotten.They also went into Seraphia’s house, where they had several arrangements to make. Her husband,who was a member of the council, was usually absent and engaged in business; but even when hewas at home she saw little of him. She was a woman of about the age of the Blessed Virgin, andhad long been connected with the Holy Family; for when the Child Jesus remained the three daysin Jerusalem after the feast, she it was who supplied him with food.The two Apostles took from thence, among other things, the chalice of which our Lord made usein the institution of the Holy Eucharist.7339
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