{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/seil/seil76.htm","path":"chr/seil/seil76.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/seil/seil76.htm","text":"The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola, [1914]\nFirst Point. First: Mary Magdalen, Mary, the mother of James, and Salome come very 32 early to the Sepulchre saying: \"`Who shall lift for us the stone from the door of the Sepulchre?'\"\nSecond Point. Second: They see the stone lifted, and the Angel, who says: \"`You seek Jesus of Nazareth. He is already risen, He is not here.'\"\nThird Point. Third: He appeared to Mary, who remained about the Sepulchre after the others had gone.\nFirst Point. First: These Maries go from the Sepulchre with fear and joy, wanting to announce to the Disciples the Resurrection of the Lord.\nSecond Point. Second: Christ our Lord appeared to them on the way, saying to them: \"Hail:\" and they approached and threw themselves at His feet and adored Him.\nThird Point. Third: Jesus says to them: \"`Fear not! Go and tell My brethren that they go into Galilee, for there they shall see Me.'\"\nFirst Point. First: Having heard from the women that Christ was risen, St. Peter went quickly to the Sepulchre.\nSecond Point. Second: Entering into the Sepulchre, he saw only the cloths with which the Body of Christ our Lord had been covered, and nothing else.\nThird Point. Third: As St. Peter was thinking of these things, Christ appeared to Him, and therefore the Apostles said: \"`Truly the Lord has risen and appeared to Simon.'\"\nFirst Point. First: He appeared to the Disciples who were going to Emmaus, talking of Christ.\nSecond Point. Second: He reproves them, showing by the Scriptures that Christ had to die and rise again: \"`O foolish and slow of heart to believe all that the Prophets have spoken! Was it not necessary that Christ should suffer and so enter into His glory?\"`\nThird Point. Third: At their prayer, He lingers there, and was with them until, in giving them Communion, He disappeared. And they, returning, told the Disciples how they had known Him in the Communion.\nFirst Point. First: The Disciples, except St. Thomas, were gathered together for fear of the Jews.\nSecond Point. Second: Jesus appeared to them, the doors being shut, and being in the midst of them, He says: \"`Peace be with you!'\"\nThird Point. Third: He gives them the Holy Ghost, saying to them: \"`Receive ye the Holy Ghost: to those whose sins you shall forgive, to them they shall be forgiven.'\"\nFirst Point. First: St. Thomas, incredulous because he was absent from the preceding apparition, says: \"If I do not see Him, I will not believe.\"\nSecond Point. Second: Jesus appears to them eight days from that, the doors being shut, and says to St. Thomas: \"`Put here thy finger and see the truth; and be not incredulous, but believing.'\"\nThird Point. Third: St. Thomas believed, saying: \"`My Lord and my God!\" Christ said to him: \"`Blessed are those who have not seen and have believed.'\"\nFirst Point. First: Jesus appears to seven of His Disciples 33 who were fishing, and had taken nothing all night; and spreading the net by His command, \"They were not able to draw it out for the multitude of the fishes.\"\nSecond Point. Second: By this miracle St. John knew Him and said to St. Peter: \"`It is the Lord!'\" He cast himself into the sea and came to Christ.\nThird Point. Third: He gave them to eat part of a fish roasted, and a comb of honey, 34 and recommended the sheep to St. Peter, having first examined him three times on charity, and says to him: \"`Feed My sheep! `\"\nFirst Point. First: The Disciples, by command of the Lord, go to Me. Thabor.\nSecond Point. Second: Christ appears to them and says: \"`All power is given to Me in heaven and on earth.'\"\nThird Point. Third: He sent them through all the world to preach, saying: \"`Go and teach ye all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.'\"\nHe appeared also in soul to the Holy Fathers of Limbo, and after taking them out and having taken His Body again, He appeared to the Disciples many times, and dealt with them.","title":"The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola: The My...","type":"page"}