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Emmaus disciples Cliophas & Simeon.
Dear William,
Thank you for reviewing the 'research' of the Emmaus Sunday Blogspot. We are learning more of the Disciples walking to Emmaus.
I felt belonging at the Emmaus next door to Latroun Abbey when on Sabbatical months there. I recall the Chapel of Sts Cliophas & Simeon but did not have a photo for it. A friend, Peter, will again be at Latroun and hope he will bring pictures. In the Refectory also, an Israeli artist made a special painting or etching, and again hoping for photo.
The friend's suggestion to do Blogging makes, as always, the incisive COMMENT and very humorous. "That is my joy. I am a sea snail, living in my shell on the shores of time, emerging excitedly when a wave of thought sweeps over me!" - beautiful!
Eastertide blessing.
fr. Donald
Email from: William ...
Emmaus Sunday (2)
Dear Father Donald,
I love the sanctuary at Emmaus El Qubeibeh that you depict! A beautiful
Eucharistic sculpture presiding over the Tabernacle and the Altar; and also the
windows of the side Chapel in Latroun monastery, edit: El Qubeibeh. What wonderful memories you
will treasure from your sabbatical!
Happy discovery in a little second hand bookshop, 'In search of the Holy
Land', extracts from H V Morton's text 1937 with photographs 1963 by Rene Burri
- the old classic that I love so much replete with glorious
illustrations! (Hard back £4 - perhaps cheaper hard backed copies on
Amazon, but when Providence places a treasure before you...)
Your research has been wide reaching on the two companions on the Emmaus
road, intriguing! I am delighting in the family connections to St Joseph and
of the family's apostles, which makes one feel that one can identify more
directly with them. How enriching, I shall note these down in the margin
of my annotated study bible to 'picture' the relationships as I read the
Scriptures.
I found a 'modern'-ish painting of the Emmaus encounter which, although
I didn't use it, keeps returning to my mind's eye (attached).
... The photo collection that I
have saved from your blog is such a joy for me to browse, 162 of the Brethren,
340 of the New Abbey - my screen-saver is the second photo attached - it
greets me whenever I return to my desk = return to Nunraw on retreat,
the door / my heart opening to this view!
... Andy's suggestion of
a blog for me... no, no! my delight is of receiving your blog posts and of
responding, sharing and commenting to you in my delight! That is my joy. I am a
sea snail, living in my shell on the shores of time, emerging excitedly
when a wave of thought sweeps over me!
Thank you for the happiness you share with me.
With my love in the Risen Lord,
William
Emmaus El Qubeibeh windows, disciples Cliophas & Simeon
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| Mane nobiscum |
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| Latroun Abbey, St Cleophas & companion (Simeon?), side Chapel |
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Incidentally,
St. Cleophas’s companion is not left anonymous in
the Liturgy of the Holy Land, - The name of St. Simeon appears
on the stage at this point in the prayers. When it is said to be apocryphal I
begin to see that the word is not entirely negative. Taken in the technical
sense of an Apocryphal source it can be understood among other respected
traditions.
Simeon,
the son of Cleopas, as the 'unnamed' disciple of Emmaus. Origen tells that Simeon was the youngest of the four sons of
Cleopas, who was the uncle of Jesus. This Simeon succeeded his brother James
the Less, after his death about 62. This 'unnamed' disciple of Emmaus (the
companion of Cleopas) is represented as a bishop with stola in the right nave
of the Franciscan shrine at Emmaus. His father, Cleopas, has his statue in the
left nave. The Melkite liturgy mentions Simeon, relative of the Lord, on April
27. The Roman Martyrology has his feast on Feb 18.
St Cleophas: Christ’s Uncle and also the Father and Grandfather of 4
Apostles
Christ, St Cleophas, and an
Unnamed Disciple, Lk 24. Saint Luke records that there were two men on the road
to Emmaus on that first Easter Sunday when Christ
appeared to them and made Himself known in the “breaking of the bread.” One of
them is identified as “Cleophas.” Here’s the Scripture from Luke 24:
13. And
behold, two of them went, the same day, to a town which was sixty furlongs from
Jerusalem, named Emmaus.
14. And they
talked together of all these things which had happened.
15. And it
came to pass that while they talked and reasoned with themselves, Jesus himself
also, drawing near, went with them.
16. But their
eyes were held, that they should not know him.
17. And he
said to them: What are these discourses that you hold one with another as you
walk and are sad?
18. And the
one of them, whose name was Cleophas, answering, said to him: Art
thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things that have been
done there in these days?
Who was this
Cleophas? Cornelius a Lapide, drawing on
St Jerome, reports that Cleophas was “the brother of S. Joseph the husband of
the Blessed Virgin, the father of S. James the less, and S. Jude, and the
grandfather of S. James the greater and S. John, who were the sons of Salome
the daughter of Cleophas.”
Let’s break
that down:
Cleophas was
the brother of St Joseph and the brother-in-law of the Holy Mother of God (so
says St Jerome).
Cleophas was
the father of St James the Less, St Jude, and Mary Salome (one of the three Marys at the empty tomb).
Cleophas was
the grandfather of St James the Greater and St John since Cleophas’
daughter Mary Salome was the mother of St James the Greater and St
John.
This would make
Cleophas the father of two Apostles and the grandfather of two Apostles. This would also entail that James the Less
and Jude were the uncles of James the Greater and John.
The
martyrology of the Catholic Church identifies the date of the martyrdom of Cleophas
as September 25th. He was martyred at the hands of Jewish authorities in Judea.
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The other Emmaus..........
The name of one of the disciples going to
Emmaus was Cleopas, (Luke xxiv. 18.) Many identify him with Cleophas, Clopas,
or Alphaeus, the husband of Mary. It is most probable that he was a different
person. The name of the other disciple is not given. Lightfoot supposes him to
have been Peter himself; and it was early a very common opinion that he was
Luke, and that the Evangelist through modesty did not mention his own name.
Wieseler, (431,) who makes Cleopas to have been Alphaeus, makes the other the
apostle James, his son.
www.custodia.org/default.asp?id=1889
The tradition accepted and
followed by the Franciscans of
the Holy Land ... It should be noted that the name of the site corresponds,
but not the type and the ...
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The tradition accepted and followed by the
Franciscans of the Holy Land identifies this sanctuary with the memory of the
appearance of the Resurrected Lord to the two disciples of Emmaus, Cleopas and
Simeon.
"Were not our hearts burning (within us) while he spoke to us on the way and opened the scriptures to us?"
Luke 24:13-35
"Were not our hearts burning (within us) while he spoke to us on the way and opened the scriptures to us?"
Luke 24:13-35
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