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Pilate and the Sanhedrim
The last round


Shocked by an unjust sentence extorted to him;
Shaken by a death he esteemed too sudden,
Bothered by Joseph’s of Arimathea request for the body,
Troubled by the Sanhedrim’s request to remove quickly the bodies from the crosses,
Pilate asked himself what else now?



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And to those pressing him he had already abruptly addressed: “What I have written I have written.”

He had showed greater hardness about the crurifragium, the answer left no room for interpretation: the Roman was running out of patience!


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“Ye have a watch: go your way, make it as sure as ye can” (Mt 27, 65)

Those guards were not exactly theirs…they were part of the V Band, working for the Procurator and it was entrusted to follow closely the public order for the Temple and the Judaism.


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The Band was present at Jesus’ arrest, even it was carried on by the servants of the chief priests.
The expression “go your way, make it as sure as ye can” meant “Go anyway and do not bother me anymore!”
And with a pragmatic attitude they go and assure the sepulchre, sealing it with a stone and placing guards in front of it.

Operation guarantee…with iron axes the stone was fixed and several seals were placed on it, the Sanhedrims themselves placed them: everything was done with the greatest carefulness…

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The legionnaires standing and watching coldly, even surprised by so many precautions for a dead…
Maybe they too have had the strange feeling that that Dead would not be… dead for a long time…like some decade before their emperor Augustus had.


AS VIAS DO ESPIRITO

Santa Zita

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Santa Zita
Leiga, padroeira
dos domesticos
(1218 - 1278)


Santa Zita, nasceu em 1218 em Monsagrati, nos arredores da cidade de Lucca, Toscana, Italia, no seio de uma familia muito devota. A sua irmã mais velha entrou no convento de Cister e um seu tio foi eremita e morreu com fama de santidade. Filha de camponeses, aos 12 anos foi trabalhar como empregada doméstica na casa de uma rica familia e aí permaneceu durante 48 anos ou seja até morrer.
 
Codice shinistaT

THE WAYS OF THE SPIRIT

Letter to Baby Jesus

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To Baby Jesus
Stars Street
Heaven

I’m here at the church, just for curiosity, to see you in the crib in a moment when nobody is in.
I need to ask you some questions. I know that during your life you had a lot of troubles and some of yours don’t skimped  criticism, malicious questions and bad opinion about your actions. But why when you do  good you are always insulted? THE HUMAN HISTORY IS ALWAYS THE SAME!