Muhammad didn’t want people at that time to think that the eclipse was something to be worshipped, nor was it a sign of divine recognition of his son’s death. In the Islamic tradition, there is a story about an eclipse taking place on the same day that Ibrahim, the son of the Prophet Muhammad, passed away.
We plan on enjoying the whole awesome show from on high, from our Lord.” “At the noon hour, when the eclipse begins, we’re going to get our lawn chairs,” she says. Sister Mary Elizabeth adds that her mother superior is giving the nuns a free day on Monday to watch the eclipse from outside of the monastery, which is very close to the path of totality. “People like to call cloistered nuns because I think that people understand that we have a little bit of a better connection, if you want to say it that way, to what’s going,” she says. But Sister Mary Elizabeth says she tells them that she and the other nuns are quite confident this event is not a bad omen, nor is it a sign that the second coming of Christ is upon us. She says the monastery has been getting some calls from Catholics worried about the eclipse. “I like to tell people who call and are anxious about these things, ‘Just pray and be joyful in God,’” says Sister Mary Elizabeth, one of the five cloistered nuns at the Passionist Nuns’ Monastery of the Immaculate Conception in Ellisville, Missouri. 21 could be a sign that the end of days is coming soon. But even now, some Christians fear that the upcoming solar eclipse on Aug. For a cinematic version of the story, check out the 1961 film, “Barabbas.” It was shot in Italy during an actual solar eclipse.Īstronomers dismiss the possibility that the crucifixion in early first-century Jerusalem was accompanied by an eclipse. The Gospels describe a darkening sky on the day Jesus was crucified. But for those who didn’t know it was coming, they saw it as a truly religious experience.”Īnd biblically speaking, they were right to be afraid. “That was 1878, at a time when total eclipses were predictable and viewed for the most part through a scientific lens. And then he took a razor, sliced his own throat and killed himself.” “As you can imagine, they fell to their knee, they ran to church and in one tragic instance, a father decided he wanted to get to the other side as fast as possible to avoid Armageddon and he ran home with an ax.
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