Semana Santa

We celebrated Easter yesterday with the Lambert Family and had a lovely time. I'll post those pictures tomorrow. For now, I thought I'd share some pictures about the real meaning of Easter - here in very Catholic Santiago, as they were leading up to the Semana Santa, there was a display at the mall on the Shroud of Turin - a life sized picture of it and other pictures to explain possible reasons for the markings on it. Corey and I stumbled across this two weeks ago as we were walking back from a date night dinner, and then took the kids to see it the next week. Corey and I are both interested in the shroud - Without a ton of study on the subject, I'm of the current opinion that it is the burial cloth of Jesus, and that the image on it was imprinted on there by the resurrection process, not that I know anything about how resurrection is done. (Although Corey did meet a guy on the plane on his flight to Costa Rica, that is working on a resurrection machine in his basement. You'll have to ask Corey about that story)


We enjoyed reading the display's information for as long as we could with the toddlers not cooperating or helping our cause:


Corey putting Lily on his shoulders above, below him with a frustrated face, Lily mad that she's not free to run away.


The part I found most interesting was seeing all these markings:


These markings are on the front and back side of the image, and are markings from when the Savior was scourged. All over his chest and front legs, and all down his back, buttocks, legs, and calves. They had a picture of what they think the crucified Lord would have looked like with all those wounds - they believe from the shroud that there were two people scourging him at the same time, from the two angles of the whip marks, and that the kind of whip they used had little metal balls tied to the three whip ends - (looked like small dumbbells with the whip tied around the middle of the dumbbell - thought I got a picture of it, sorry), with would leave 6 circular marks

And from the cloth it shows that the crown wasn't just a hollow crown, but was a whole cap of thorns that pierced all over his scalp.


It's incredible to think of all Christ endured for us, and this was just on the cross, not to mention the Garden of Gethsemane when he took upon himself our sins and bled from every pour. Impossible for us to comprehend, but I am so grateful that he didn't give up. He finished the work the Father gave him to do, and because of that, he won the victory over death and hell. The biggest miracle, is that he rose from the dead on that first Easter Sunday, resurrected, ppening the door for all of us to live again. I love Jesus Christ and thank Him for what He did for me and my children, my parents, all my family and all of us on this earth. He died for us and because of that we can all be forgiven of our sins and we will all live again.

Here is a lovely Mormon Messages on Easter.

Happy Easter!