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

[kyokugen-sun.livejournal.com]

But there are lots of gods.

[reckless-eagle.livejournal.com]

No, there's like, only one. The others are false gods.

[kyokugen-sun.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure THAT'S not true.

[reckless-eagle.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it totally is. There's one God, who created everything and redeems everything, and that's it.

[kyokugen-sun.livejournal.com]

If that were true, shouldn't he have made sure EVERYONE knew about him right off instead of just some people, and then expecting them to tell everyone else? Because if he really wanted everyone to go to heaven, that's an extremely inefficient way to do it.

[reckless-eagle.livejournal.com]

Well, duh, that's why righteous unbelievers go to Purgatory instead of Hell, and then they can come to Heaven, too! And he like, sent the Savior in a time when it took a super-long time to contact other Nations, so it's had to spread gradually.

[kyokugen-sun.livejournal.com]

That can't be true, since the emperor is descended from the gods.

[Not that Ryohei BELIEVES that, but, y'know. He doesn't believe in the whole Christ thing either.]

[reckless-eagle.livejournal.com]

No, he's not.

[He says this as though responding to someone saying "the sky is green with orange and black polka dots".]

[kyokugen-sun.livejournal.com]

And that Jesuit guy isn't any more capable of saving my soul than chanting Amida Buddha's name.

[Yes, he means Jesus when he say Jesuit there. Blame that on his bad memory for names.

And tch. Come on. All Reborn characters know that the color of the Sky is ORANGE.]

[reckless-eagle.livejournal.com]

Yes, he is! I don't know what an Amidabuda is, but like, Jesus already lifted the weight of everyone's sins from them, and no one else could ever have done that.

[He's going to pout.]

[kyokugen-sun.livejournal.com]

It doesn't make any SENSE.

[reckless-eagle.livejournal.com]

Of course it does! And how can you go saying it doesn't make sense when you don't even know enough about it to know that Jesus "gets two holidays"? That's totally ridiculous, Ryohei!

[kyokugen-sun.livejournal.com]

It's totally ridiculous to tell me the things my people believe are wrong because you heard a different story!

[reckless-eagle.livejournal.com]

Except they are wrong.

[kyokugen-sun.livejournal.com]

[dslkfjsdf why can't they just settle this in a fist fight the way EVERYTHING ELSE THAT MATTERS is settled? :<]

If they're wrong, so are you. It's all just stories.

[reckless-eagle.livejournal.com]

That doesn't make any sense. Just because people don't agree on something, you like, say they're all wrong?

[kyokugen-sun.livejournal.com]

It makes as much sense as you being right and them being wrong, or the other way around.

Besides, there's no way to REALLY know who's right until you die.

[reckless-eagle.livejournal.com]

No, it doesn't. It like, makes as much sense as saying "my two friends are telling me two different stories to explain something, so I'm gonna assume they're both liars"!

[kyokugen-sun.livejournal.com]

Well what makes you think your story's the real one? What proof do you have?

[reckless-eagle.livejournal.com]

Faith isn't about proof. My proof is in my heart.

[kyokugen-sun.livejournal.com]

Why is your faith worth more than mine?

[reckless-eagle.livejournal.com]

Because I'm right.

[kyokugen-sun.livejournal.com]

...So you're saying that you're better than me, because what you believe is right.

[reckless-eagle.livejournal.com]

I like, never said I'm better, I just said I'm right and you're wrong!

[kyokugen-sun.livejournal.com]

But you said your faith is better than mine because yours is right, and if your faith comes from your heart, then that means you're saying your heart is better than mine.