This page gives you quick and easy links to each of the daily readings from Sister Emmerich for Lent and Eastertide.
Introduction: Sister Emmerich at Lent and Eastertide
The Creation
Introductory Remarks
1. Fall of the angels
2. Creation of the earth
3. Adam and Eve
4. The Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge
Sin and its consequences
1. The Fall
2. The promise of the Redeemer
3. Adam and Eve driven from Paradise
4. The family of Adam
9. Jesus on the Mount of Olives
10. Judas and his band. The wood of the cross
11. The arrest of the Lord
12. Means taken by Jesus’ enemies for carrying out their designs. Glance at Jerusalem at this hour
13. Jesus before Annas
14. Jesus led from Annas to Caiaphas
15. Jesus before Caiaphas
16. Jesus mocked and insulted
17. Peter’s denial
18. Mary in the judgment hall of Caiaphas
19. Jesus imprisoned
20. Judas at the judgment hall
21. The morning trial
22. The despair of Judas
23. Jesus is taken to Pilate
25. Jesus before Pilate
26. Origin of the devotion of the “Holy Way of the Cross”
27. Pilate and his wife
28. Jesus before Herod
29. Jesus taken from Herod to Pilate
30. The scourging of Jesus
31. Mary during the scourging of Jesus
33. Personal appearance of Mary and of Magdalen
34. Jesus crowned with thorns and mocked
35. “Ecce homo!”
36. Jesus condemned to the death of the cross
37. Jesus carries his cross to Golgotha
38. Jesus’ first fall under the cross
39. Jesus, carrying his cross, meets his most holy and afflicted mother. His second fall under the cross
40. Simon of Cyrene. Jesus’ third fall under the cross
41. Veronica and her veil
42. The weeping daughters of Jerusalem. Jesus’ fourth and fifth falls beneath the cross
43. Jesus on Golgotha. The sixth and the seventh falls of Jesus. His imprisonment
44. Mary and the holy women go to Golgotha
The weather
45. Jesus stripped for crucifixion
46. Jesus nailed to the cross
47. The raising of the cross
48. The crucifixion of the thieves
49. The executioners cast lots for Jesus’ garments
50. Jesus crucified. The two thieves
51. Jesus mocked. His first word on the cross
52. The sun obscured. The second and the third words of Jesus on the cross
53. Jesus abandoned. His fourth word on the cross
54. The death of Jesus. Fifth, sixth, and seventh words on the cross
55. The earthquake. Apparitions of the dead in Jerusalem
56. Joseph of Arimathea requests the body of Jesus from Pilate
57. The side of Jesus opened. The legs of the thieves broken
60. The descent from the cross
61. The body of Jesus prepared for burial
62. The sepulture
63. The return from the burial. The sabbath
64. The imprisonment of Joseph of Arimathea. The holy sepulchre guarded
66. Some words on Christ’s descent into hell
65. The friends of Jesus on Holy Saturday
The Resurrection. The Ascension. The descent of the Holy Ghost
1. The eve of the Holy Resurrection
2. The Resurrection of the Lord
3. The guards’ statements
4. The first love feast (agape) after the Resurrection
5. Communion of the holy apostles
6. The disciples going to Emmaus. Jesus appears to the apostles in the hall of the Last Supper
7. The apostles preaching the Resurrection
8. The second love feast (agape). Thomas puts his hand into the marks of Jesus’ wounds