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5 Apr 2018

Resurrection and Eucharist

Ἡ καθαρὰ σινδὼν ἡ ὑφαπλουμένη τῇ τῶν θείων δώρων διακονίᾳ, ἡ τοῦ Ἀριμαθέως ἐστὶν Ἰωσὴφ λειτουργία. Ὡς γὰρ ἐκεῖνος τὸ τοῦ Κυρίου σῶμα σινδόνι ἐνειλήσας τῷ τάφῷ παρὲπεμψε, δι' οὖ ἄπαν τὸ γένος ἡμῶν τὴν ἀνάστασιν ἐκαρπώσατο· οὕτως ἡμεῖς ἐπὶ σινδόνος τὸν ἄρτον τῆς προθέσεως ἁγιάζοντες, σῶμα Χριστοῦ ἀδιστάκτως εὑρίσκομεν, ἐκείνην ἡμῖν πηγάζον τὴν ἀφθαρσίαν, ἤν ὁ παρὰ Ἰωσὴφ μὲν κηδευθεὶς, ἐκ νεκρῶν δὲ ἀναστὰς Ἰησοῦς ὁ Σωτὴρ ἐχαρίσατο.  

Ἅγιος Ἰσίδωρος Του Πηλουσιώτου, Βιβλιον Πρῶτον, Ἐπιστολὴ ΡΚΓ', Δωροθεῳ Κομητι
The clean cloth which is spread beneath the divine gifts by the minister, is of the service of Joseph of Arimathea. For like him he sends the body of the Lord with the cloth wrapped to the tomb,1 from which our resurrection springs, and so the bread of offering having sanctified, the body of Christ without doubt we find, which to us is a fount of immortality, which from the service of Joseph, the Saviour Jesus rising, has given.

Saint Isidore of Pelusium, Book 1, Letter 123, To Count Dorotheus 


1 Mt 27.59
 

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