Nineteenth Entry [Video]

[reckless_eagle]

[Poland, dressed in his 15th century Sunday best, is in a smallish room bedecked with candles and crosses. Today, it's also decorated with white cloth hangings and flowers everywhere. After all that Lenten fasting, it appears he was able to will his room to have a chapel attached!]

So, um. I know not everyone here is Christian, but... Today's a really important day for those of us who are, and I kinda wanted to share that with people. So like, I wanted to start the day with a reading from Matthew for everyone! And Liet and I have been making tons of sweets and pisanki for today, if anyone wants to come hang out and help us eat them...

But first things first~ [He crosses himself, then picks up a huge, leather-bound Bible with vellum pages, flipping it open to a page he'd marked and beginning to read aloud. His Latin accent is actually pretty good, because he's had a LOT of practice since his baptism over 400 years ago.]

A lesson from the Gospel of Matthew:

Vespere autem sabbati quae lucescit in primam sabbati venit Maria Magdalene et altera Maria videre sepulchrum
et ecce terraemotus factus est magnus angelus enim Domini descendit de caelo et accedens revolvit lapidem et sedebat super eum
erat autem aspectus eius sicut fulgur et vestimentum eius sicut nix
prae timore autem eius exterriti sunt custodes et facti sunt velut mortui
respondens autem angelus dixit mulieribus nolite timere vos scio enim quod Iesum qui crucifixus est quaeritis.

Non est hic surrexit enim sicut dixit venite videte locum ubi positus erat Dominus
et cito euntes dicite discipulis eius quia surrexit et ecce praecedit vos in Galilaeam ibi eum videbitis ecce praedixi vobis
et exierunt cito de monumento cum timore et magno gaudio currentes nuntiare discipulis eius
et ecce Iesus occurrit illis dicens havete illae autem accesserunt et tenuerunt pedes eius et adoraverunt eum
tunc ait illis Iesus nolite timere ite nuntiate fratribus meis ut eant in Galilaeam ibi me videbunt.

[He closes the Bible, and holds it up in front of him with a reverent little bow.]

The Gospel of the Lord. Thanks be to God!

[Setting the Bible aside, he gives the camera a happy smile.]

Alleluia, Christ is risen! Happy Easter, everyone ♥

[OOC: I'm... not Catholic, so there are more or less guaranteed to be little errors here. But I tried! And happy Easter to everyone from the mun, too, while I'm OOC note-ing~]

Comments

[holyandsexy.livejournal.com]

Perhaps, but since they are completely different words, there's no reason why they would have similarities.

[Pheliostan] My language sounds like this.

[Razenian] This is our neighbor's language.

[High Pheliostan] And this is the holy language.

[OOC: These are all made up languages, I have no idea what they sound like; except their kingdom is European looking with vaguely middle eastern additions.]

[reckless-eagle.livejournal.com]

...Huh. Yeah, I like, think you're right, 'cause I defs didn't recognize any of that.

[holyandsexy.livejournal.com]

So what did the story you read mean? It's religious, right?

[reckless-eagle.livejournal.com]

[He nods]

It's like, about the Resurrection. Jesus--the only Son of God, who took mortal form so he could live and die as a human and use his own life as a sacrifice for their sins--was betrayed by one of his disciples, humiliated, and hung on the cross to die. When he did, it was at sunset on the last day before the Sabbath, when his people weren't allowed to do any work, not even preparing a body for the grave. So one of his friends put him in a cave-tomb in the hillside and sealed it up with a stone, and everyone went into hiding so the authorities wouldn't find them, too, and waited.

Then, at dawn on the third day--this is the part I just told--a group of women who were his disciples brought the things they needed to prepare his body and went to the place where he'd been left. But the stone had been moved, and he wasn't there. Instead, there was an angel in robes as bright as lightning, and he tells them that Jesus has risen from the dead, like it was prophesied long before. So they go back to town and tell all their friends, and Jesus appears to them, and tells them to go to the city of Galilee, and he'll see them again there.

It's like, pretty much one of the most important parts of my religion, because it marks when Jesus, as God made incarnate in a mortal, broke the chains of sin and death binding all other mortals.

[holyandsexy.livejournal.com]

[Yujinn listens intentionally, since this is all foreign to him.]

So he came to life so that he could die and come to life again?

[In some ways, it reminded him of St.Phelios.]

[reckless-eagle.livejournal.com]

[Another nod]

Mhmm! So he could like, know what mortal life was like, and help them better.

[holyandsexy.livejournal.com]

I see. Are all copies of your holy book in that language?

[reckless-eagle.livejournal.com]

I think so?

...Oh, but America seemed pretty surprised to hear me reading it in Latin, and said in his time they have copies in his language... so I don't know, maybe that changes after my time!

[holyandsexy.livejournal.com]

I'll check the library, that has everything.

[reckless-eagle.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a plan!

[holyandsexy.livejournal.com]

Thank you for answering my questions.

Have we met before? I don't remember your name.

[reckless-eagle.livejournal.com]

No prob! I like talking about the Bible, so it's all good~

I don't think we have! I'm the Kingdom of Poland.

[holyandsexy.livejournal.com]

Pleased to meet you, my name is Yujinn.

[reckless-eagle.livejournal.com]

Totally nice to meet you, too, Yujinn!

So are you like, from a different world than mine?

[SO WEIRD. He can't imagine someone from his world not having heard of Rome or his language =o]

[holyandsexy.livejournal.com]

I believe so. My kingdom is Pheliosta, and our neighbor is Razenia. But, I don't think we have talking countries, although we do have magic.

[reckless-eagle.livejournal.com]

Yeah, defs never heard of it.

...Like, sell-your-soul-to-the-Devil-for-power kind of magic, or the kind Aerith told me about where it's just a natural part of the world?

[holyandsexy.livejournal.com]

There are several different kinds. I teach holy magic, which was given to us by St.Phelios. There's also natural magic, and the magic that monster's have. And then vampires use blood magic, but humans can't.

I think blood magic may be what you're talking about. They can give humans powers in exchange for a pact with them.

[reckless-eagle.livejournal.com]

...I guess your kind is probably okay, then. As long as it's not that kind.

[holyandsexy.livejournal.com]

My kind involves a lot of healing, and also fighting demons and undead.

[reckless-eagle.livejournal.com]

Ohhh, so that's what you meant by "holy"? That's cool! I'm totally down with that.

[holyandsexy.livejournal.com]

Were there many of them in your world?

[reckless-eagle.livejournal.com]

Like, many of what?

[holyandsexy.livejournal.com]

Demons.

[reckless-eagle.livejournal.com]

They only show up in the mortal world sometimes, but they totally exist.

[holyandsexy.livejournal.com]

[Of course they do, they show up and attack the capital occasionally. Who would doubt demons?]

If you don't have magic, they must be harder to get rid of.