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10-05-2008
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Forty to Fifty days |
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For those forty days after His Resurrection, Our Divine Savior was preparing His Apostles to bear the loss of His presence through the gain of the Comforter who was to come. He showed himself to them after his death, and gave ample proof that he was alive: over a period of forty days he appeared to them and taught them about the kingdom of God.(Acts 1:3)
It was not a period when He dispensed gifts, but rather one in which He gave out laws and prepared the structure for His Mystical Body, the Church. Moses had fasted days before the giving of the Law; Elijah fasted forty days before the restoration of the Law; and now for forty days the Risen Savior laid the pillars of His Church, and the new Law of the Gospel. But the forties were about to end, and the Apostles were bidden to wait upon the fiftieth day - the day of jubi1ee!
Fulton J Sheen
Life of Christ
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