96. Magdalen and the Holy Women Go to Anoint Jesus ' Body Cassius is in constant contemplation and prayer and has not left his post at the door of the sepulcher since he arrived late in the evening of Good Friday.
Magdalen and the holy women finish preparing and packing the spices and are bidden by the Blessed Virgin to take some rest. The next morning, as they travel to the sepulcher, they anxiously inquire of one another: " Who will roll away for us the stone from the door?"
96. 玛达肋纳和圣妇们去膏抹耶稣的圣身
卡休斯一直在默想和祈祷,自从他在耶稣受难日(星期五)晚上到达墓地后,他就没有离开过墓地门口的岗位。玛达肋纳和圣妇们完成了香料的准备和包装,圣母吩咐她们休息一下。第二天早上,她们走到墓前,焦急地互相询问:“谁能为我们把石头从墓穴入口滚开?”
When the morning sky began to clear with a streak of white light, I saw Magdalen, Mary Cleophas, Johanna Chusa, and Salom, enveloped in mantles, leaving their abode near the Cenacle. They carried the spices packed in linen cloths, and one of them had a lighted lantern. They kept all hidden under their mantles. The spices consisted of fresh flowers for strewing over the Sacred Body, and also of expressed sap, essences, and oils for pouring over it. The holy women walked anxiously to the little gate belonging to Nicodemus..
Salome had shared with Magdalen in defraying most of the cost. She was not the mother of John,but another Salome, a rich lady of Jerusalem, a relative of St. Joseph. At last the holy women concluded to set the spices on the stone before the tomb and to wait till some disciple would come who would open it for them. And so they went on toward the garden. (Vol 4, pp. 363, 365)