#arimathea

[thesynaxarium]

Today we celebrate the Righteous Joseph of Arimathea. Saint Joseph was part of the Sanhedrin, but refused to take part in the council that condemned Christ to death. After the Crucifixion, Saint Joseph boldly asked Pontius Pilate for the body of Christ which he took and buried in a narrow grave, one which he had carved for himself. After the Resurrection, Saint Joseph travelled all over the known world preaching the Gospel of Christ. He reposed peacefully in Britain at an old age. May he intercede for us always + #saint #joseph #arimathea #josephofarimathea #saintjoseph #christ #jesus #jesuschrist #crucifixion #sanhedrin #counsel #counselor #christian #pilate #pontiuspilate #resurrection #preach #preacher #gospel #britain #england #repose #orthodox #saintoftheday (at Glastonbury) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cgpmrkcv5oA/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[bibleblender]

New article has been published on https://www.bibleblender.com/2023/bible-stories/new-testament/matthew/death-burial-jesus-matthew-27-45-27-66

The death and burial of Jesus (Matthew 27:45 - 27:66).

Pilate told them, “Take a guard of soldiers and make it as secure as possible.” So they went with soldiers of the guard and made the tomb secure by sealing the stone.

[okarasusama]

the resurrection account is full of fearful, trembling men and women. full of doubt, weak of faith. fear in the garden, fear at the cross, fear at the tomb, fear at the resurrection, fear even in the face of the greatest of news.

jesus loves well his fearful, doubting saints. he comforts them, he thinks of them, he cares for them, he cooks for them, he greets them by name.

[oneknightstand-if]

@somethingsome replied to your post “Well the Masoch / Lancelotism paper was quite the...”:

Anna's Archive seems to have it available, if anyone is getting blocked by the original link

​Well, there you have it for all you budding masochists out there! Adrian, move over. And hey, they've got the original Lancelot-Grail (Vulgate + Post Vulgate Cycle) too!

That's only got one English translation with a single print run back in the 1990s, so it's pretty rare and uber expensive. I had to physically borrow the volumes from an academic library way back when.

[lionofchaeronea]

Head of St. Joseph of Arimathea in Prayer (after Rogier van der Weyden), tentatively attributed to Albert Bouts, 15th century

[thepastisalreadywritten]

SAINT OF THE DAY (March 29)

St. Joseph of Arimathea is a disciple of Jesus Christ who is mentioned in each account of the Passion narrative.

After the Passion of the Lord, Joseph, a member of the Jewish council, went to Pilate and asked for possession of the body of Jesus.

After receiving this permission, Joseph had Jesus laid in a nearby tomb.

The Gospels tell us that Joseph was a just and devout man waiting for the kingdom of God.

He followed Jesus' public ministry but feared the repercussions from the other members of the Jewish council.

[maypoleman1]

5th January

Twelfth Night/ Old Christmas Eve

1986 Christmas stamp. Source: The Garden Trust website

Joseph of Arimathea, Jesus’ uncle, visited Britain according to Christian folklore and while here, planted his staff in the ground at Glastonbury and it immediately sprouted into a thorn tree. The Glastonbury Thorn was thereafter considered holy and it proved its divine provenance by blooming each Christmas Day. When the calendar changed and the former Christmas Day moved to 5th January which, confusingly, became known as Old Christmas Eve, the Thorn sadly did not accommodate its blooming habits to the new dating system. The Puritans had considered the Joseph legend stuff and nonsense and during the Commonwealth the Thorn was cut down. Cuttings survived however and were replanted, with the Thorn once again coming into flower in both midwinter and early spring to this day. To add some veracity to the legend, the Thorn is estimated by botanists to have its origins in the Middle East.

Twelfth Night, the night before the last day of the Christmas season was often celebrated by a final bout of wassailing. To wassail - the word is derived from the Anglo-Saxon toast waes hael , or good health - is to pass round a bowl of festive ale or mead punch and to drink to the season. Wassailing was also carried out by groups of beggars on a trip called the Visiting Wassail, who throughout Christmas would go door to door seeking food and wassail drink. Tonight was the last opportunity the alms seekers had to importune their neighbours in this way before being told to go away and come back next year.

[gawrkin]

(From Visions of History: Robert de Boron and the English Arthurian Chroniclers by Edward Donald Kennedy)

The way I interpret the French Tradition is that it "started" with Robert de Boron. In a way, Robert de Boron is like the "Second Father of Arthuriana". Robert de Boron didn't so much alter King Arthur's story as he instead gave it a new context.

Despite Chretien de Troyes and Robert Wace introducing the Round Table, the Holy Grail and Sir Lancelot, it was Robert de Boron who truly established the "Christian Chivalric Universe" - by writing about the history of the grail and the introduction of Joseph of Arimathea as a patriarch, Robert de Boron gave the (Literary) Chivalric genre a Mythic Past and a continuity of sorts. It fits in the Christian worldview of history as part of a giant plan - and story - of God's for Mankind's salvation.

It fully establishes the Christian origin and heritage of (Literary-)Chivalry-as-an-institute by not only having Joseph bring Christianity to Britain, where the future fantastical setting of Arthur and his warriors was to be established, but also having him serve as the ancestor to multiple Arthurian characters such Percival, Tristan, Lancelot, King Lot, his son Gawain, and Arthur himself (fulfilling the aristocratic need for genealogical fantasy).

This essentially pushes away, and negates the symbolic consequences of, the original narrative set forth by Geoffrey of Monmouth - the almost kind-of secular and worldly portrayal of Arthurian History.

For all intents and purposes, Joseph of Arimathea replaces Brutus in importance for the Era of Camelot. This is why (in Vulgate cycle, at least) Joseph is said to be a knight.

Nowhere is that felt more than in Robert's introduction of one of the most iconic pieces of Arthuriana: The Sword in the Stone.

The Sword of the Stone, an item not mentioned at all in Historia Regum Britannia, and its attendant story arc of Arthur's hidden upbringing by Antor/Ector, essentially functions as a second origin story for King Arthur without having to negate or omit Geoffrey's older story of Arthur being born through a thoroughly un-Christian manner.

Whatever or whoever Arthur was before pulling the sword doesn't particularly matter, the sword in the stone effectively grants the same Divine privilege to rule as if he was conceived and raised as a normal royal.

AND

Arthur's ignorance of his heritage affords him synergy with his knights, many of whom are often of the "Fair Unknown" archetype, including Lancelot, Gawain, and of course, Percival.

[psifitopia]

weird question

I'm not sure how a first-century Jewish person would have thought about this, but I'm curious. After the resurrection, when Joseph of Arimathea died, why wasn't he buried in the tomb?

[onlyfangz]

i'm writing a script for class that's based around the bible story of jesus's crucifixion (details unimportant), and so i'm doing a ton of research into it, including just straight up reading the bible, and i never realised how fucking anti-semitic the text is. like don't get me wrong i'm not an idiot, i knew that the church was anti-semitic, but considering i was a kid when i was a christian, i rarely got into the actual written text, and not the regurgitated kid-friendly stuff. they really kept hammering home that jews are evil, huh?

[apenitentialprayer]

I thought today was a the feast days of Saints Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus?

You're right! August 31st, as I just learned, is also their Latin Rite feast!

Most days have multiple saint celebrations; we have over 10,000 confirmed saints, after all.

I kind of wish I knew that earlier in the day, I'm rather fond of Joseph of Arimathea in particular.

[mistwander]

With a little bit of shakeup Obligatory is rolling into 6.2 with a clear of Barbariccia! It took us a few pulls to get on our roll with our new layout but we got it cleared out and everyone has their weapon! Let’s go P5S!

Also, a rare Chibi!Yjrn in a clear photo for once!

With all thanks to Emerald Carbuncle, Lord Arimathea( @arimathean-industries), Jay Bear, Hapi Sa’vel, Rosandria Arimathea, Hero Shadeseer( @herohikara-wol), Nova Shadow, Amos Toth, and Yjrn Mistwander!

[ifimakemybedinhell]

if judas didn’t realise that the trial would lead jesus to his death (basing this on the fact that the sanhedrin did not have the power to sentence people to death, a fact i can’t remember the source for, sorry*), then it’s possible he thought he was bringing him back to orthodoxy, away from terrifying premonitions of death and godhood. it’s possible he was scared by the future he saw coming of a rebel execution and ended up causing it anyway. no wonder he’d feel guilty and ashamed and terrified and heartbroken.

*they didn’t, but looking it up jesus may not have been tried by them but a group of priests from the temple

[arimathean-industries]

FFXIV Write #11 (EC): Relaxation

Lord doesn't Relax, doesn't take breaks, barely sleeps, etc. So what happens when the office is closed and there's a sign that says "Closed for Vacation?

[thepastisalreadywritten]

SAINT OF THE DAY (March 29)

St. Joseph of Arimathea is a disciple of Jesus Christ who is mentioned in each account of the Passion narrative.

He was, according to all four canonical gospels, the man who assumed responsibility for the burial of Jesus after his crucifixion.

After the Passion of the Lord, Joseph, a member of the Jewish council, went to Pilate and asked for possession of the body of Jesus.

After receiving this permission, Joseph had Jesus laid in a nearby tomb.

The Gospels tell us that Joseph was a just and devout man waiting for the kingdom of God.

He followed Jesus' public ministry but feared the repercussions from the other members of the Jewish council.

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

The Death of Jesus

33 When it was noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon. 34 At three o’clock Jesus cried out with a loud voice, ‘Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?’ which means, ‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?’ 35 When some of the bystanders heard it, they said, ‘Listen, he is calling for Elijah.’ 36 And someone ran, filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on a stick, and gave it to him to drink, saying, ‘Wait, let us see whether Elijah will come to take him down.’ 37 Then Jesus gave a loud cry and breathed his last. 38 And the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. 39 Now when the centurion, who stood facing him, saw that in this way he breathed his last, he said, ‘Truly this man was God’s Son!’

40 There were also women looking on from a distance; among them were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salome. 41 These used to follow him and provided for him when he was in Galilee; and there were many other women who had come up with him to Jerusalem.

The Burial of Jesus

42 When evening had come, and since it was the day of Preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath, 43 Joseph of Arimathea, a respected member of the council, who was also himself waiting expectantly for the kingdom of God, went boldly to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. 44 Then Pilate wondered if he were already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he had been dead for some time. 45 When he learned from the centurion that he was dead, he granted the body to Joseph. 46 Then Joseph bought a linen cloth, and taking down the body, wrapped it in the linen cloth, and laid it in a tomb that had been hewn out of the rock. He then rolled a stone against the door of the tomb. 47 Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses saw where the body was laid. — Mark 15:33-47 | New Revised Standard Version Anglicised (NRSVA) New Revised Standard Version Bible: Anglicised Edition, copyright © 1989, 1995 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. All rights reserved. Cross References: Exodus 26:31; Psalm 22:1; Psalm 69:21; Matthew 8:10; Matthew 10:3; Matthew 20:5; Matthew 27:50; Matthew 27:54-55; Matthew 27:56-57; Mark 15:25; Mark 16:1; Mark 16:3; Luke 8:2; Luke 23:44; Luke 23:45-46; Luke 23:47; Luke 23:51; John 11:38; John 11:41; John 19:29; John 19:38; Acts 13:29