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| | Common Era -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article |
 | | The names for the months and days of the week derive respectively from Roman and Nordic religious traditions, so naming years based on the Christian tradition should not be seen as objectionable. | | | The Common Era (CE), also known as Current Era or occasionally, the Christian Era, is the period beginning with the year (The smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number) 1 onwards. | | | Dating years according to Christian theology has the potential to be culturally divisive in worldwide use. |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/c/co/common_era.htm
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| | History & info - the Islamic calendar |
| | As the year in the Islamic calendar is about 11 days shorter than the year in the Christian calendar, the Islamic years are slowly gaining in on the Christian years. | | | Note that although only 2003-622=1381 years have passed in the Christian calendar, 1423 years have passed in the Islamic calendar, because its year is consistently shorter (by about 11 days) than the tropical year used by the Christian calendar. | | | In the year AD 2003 we have witnessed the start of Islamic year AH 1424. |
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http://webexhibits.org/calendars/calendar-islamic.html
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| | Liturgical year - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The liturgical year, also known as the Christian year, consists of the cycle of liturgical seasons in some Christian churches which determines when Feasts, Memorials, Commemorations, and Solemnities are to be observed and which portions of Scripture are to be read. | | | Many Protestant churches recognize a liturgical year, including Anglicans/Episcopalians, Lutherans, Methodists, Presbyterians, the Reformed churches, and the United/Uniting churches (the United Church of Christ [USA], the United Church of Canada, and the Uniting Church in Australia). | | | The cycle of the year defines a series of seasons, which are associated with different ways of decorating churches, different vestments for clergy, and different topics for reading from the Bible and preaching. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liturgical_year
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| | Celebrating The Christian Liturgical Year in Evangelical Churches |
| | For those who have their first taste of the Christian year in worship, a sense of stability and continuity in their Christian faith and worship is also found. | | | After using the Christian year as a primary basis of our worship for five years, our congregation would have it no other way. | | | Drawing from very meaningful but limited exposures to liturgical environments and considerable reading about church history and Christian symbols has begun to teach the value in periodically focusing on all the major themes of our Christian faith. |
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http://www.worshipandchurchmusic.com/xtyr.html
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| | December 25th Part 3 |
| | It is done thus: Multiply the next preceding Olympiad by 4, and add the odd years; subtract the sum from 777 if before Christ, or subtract 776 from the sum if after Christ; and the remainder will be the commencement of the given year—generally about the middle of July in the Christian year. | | | The Christian Era adopts a particular year as a commencement or starting-point, from which any subsequent year may be reckoned. | | | Christian Era (A. Roman Year (A. Anno Mundi (Jewish account), 5623 |
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http://www.thebookofdays.com/months/dec/25b.htm
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| | Era: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Era |
| | The beginning of the Christian era was 753 A.U.C., so that the year 2003 C.E. is the same as the year 2756 A.U.C. - for the Latin Anno Mundi, meaning year of the world. | | | Year 1 is the beginning of the Christian era. | | | Years are counted from the beginning of the Christian Era. |
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http://www.encyclopedian.com/er/Era.html
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| | The Easter Page -- Traditions, History, and Dates of Easter |
| | The Cross is not only a symbol of Easter, but it is more widely used, especially by the Catholic Church, as a year-round symbol of their faith. | | | To save lives, the missionaries cleverly decided to spread their religious message slowly throughout the populations by allowing them to continue to celebrate pagan feasts, but to do so in a Christian manner. | | | As with almost all "Christian" holidays, Easter has been secularized and commercialized. |
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http://wilstar.net/holidays/easter.htm
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| | The Julian and Gregorian Calendars |
| | According to Dionysius the Incarnation occurred on March 25th of the year preceding 1 A.D. (with the birth of Jesus occurring nine months later on December 25th), so it is reasonable to regard that year, rather than 1 A.D. as the first year of the Christian Era. | | | In that case 1 A.D. is the second year, and 999 A.D. is the 1000th year, of the first Christian millennium, implying that 1999 A.D. is the final year of the second Christian millennium and 2000 A.D. the first year of the third. | | | The system of numbering years A.D. (for "Anno Domini") was instituted in about the year 527 A.D. by the Roman abbot Dionysius Exiguus, who reckoned that the Incarnation had occurred on March 25 in the year 754 a.u.c., with the birth of Jesus occurring nine months later. |
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http://www.hermetic.ch/cal_stud/cal_art.html
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| | Jubilee (Christian) - definition of Jubilee (Christian) in Encyclopedia |
| | In the twentieth century, Jubilees were held in 1925, 1933 (in commemoration of Jesus' death), 1950, 1975, 1983 (Holy Year of the Redemption) and 2000. | | | The Jubilee was closed by the pope on January 6, 2001, by the closing of the holy door of St. Peter's and the promulgation of the Apostolic Letter Novo Millennio Ineunte (Upon Entering the New Millennium), which outlines the pope's vision for the future of the Church. | | | Protestant Churches and the Orthodox were invited to celebrate the Jubilee together with the Catholics as a sign of ecumenical dialogue. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Jubilee_(Christian)
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| | CalendarHome.com - New Year's Day - Calendar Encyclopedia |
| | In all countries that use the Gregorian calendar, with the exception of Israel, New Year's Day is a public holiday. | | | In South Korea, the most popular way of celebrating New Year's Day (1 January) is to travel to Jung dong jin, the place on the peninsula where the sun can first be seen each day. | | | It is also an occasion to make New Year resolutions, which they hope to fulfill in the coming Year; the most popular ones in the western world include to stop tobacco smoking or drinking, or to lose weight or get physically fit. |
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http://encyclopedia.calendarhome.com/New_Year%27s_Day.htm
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| | About the Liturgical Calendar |
| | Thus the cycle of the liturgical year and the great feasts constitute the basic rhythm of the Christian's life of prayer, with its focal point at Easter" (§1168). | | | In the liturgical year, "the celebration of the Paschal Mystery [...] is the most privileged moment in the daily, weekly and annual celebration of Christian worship" (110). | | | The liturgical year is the temporal structure within which the Church celebrates the holy mysteries of Christ: "From the Incarnation and the Nativity to the Ascension, to Pentecost and to the wait in joyful hope for the Lord's coming" (109). |
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http://www.wf-f.org/LiturgicalCalendar-info.html
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| | Anno Domini : B.C |
| | The name comes from Jesus Christ being referred to as "Lord" in Christianity. | | | Most historians agree that Jesus of Nazareth was born year 4 or 5 before the start of the year chosen as the start of the Gregorian calendar. | | | It uses an epoch based on the traditionally reckoned year of the birth of Jesus Christ. |
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http://www.fastload.org/b./B.C.html
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| | MSN Encarta - Easter |
| | Easter, annual festival commemorating the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, and the principal feast of the Christian year. | | | An important historical result of the difference in reckoning the date of Easter was that the Christian Churches in the East, which were closer to the birthplace of the new religion and in which old traditions were strong, observed Easter according to the date of the Passover festival. | | | The principal astronomical problem involved was the discrepancy, called the epact, between the solar year and the lunar year. |
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http://uk.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761568507/Easter.html
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: New Year's Day |
| | In Christian liturgy the Church does not refer to the first of the year, any more than she does to the fact that the first Sunday of Advent is the first day of the ecclesiastical year. | | | Christian writers and councils condemned the heathen orgies and excesses connected with the festival of the Saturnalia, which were celebrated at the beginning of the year: Tertullian blames Christians who regarded the customary presents -- called strenae (Fr. | | | In the Bible the day is not mentioned as New Year's Day, but the Jews so regarded it, so named it, and so consider it now (Mishnah, Rosh Hash., I, 1). |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11019a.htm
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| | Christian Healing Ministries-Y2K: The Year of Jubilee |
| | The year 2000, according to traditional Judeo-Christian belief, is the year of Jubilee. | | | So, as Christians, we should enter this extraordinary year seeking reconciliation and peace. | | | In the Jubilee year, a time of rejoicing, all slaves were to be set free, all property was to be returned to its original owners, and all debts were to be canceled. |
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http://www.christianhealingmin.org/y2k.htm
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| | Anno Domini - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Era of Martyrs, which numbered years from the accession of Diocletian in 284, who launched the last yet most severe persecution of Christians, prevailed in the east and is still used officially by the Coptic and Ethiopian churches. | | | This numbering system lacks a year zero, which is a problem with some calculations, so in astronomical year numbering (which for the current era is based on the Christian numbering) a zero is added and the 'AD' and 'BC' are dropped. | | | Documents and events began to be dated by the year of the cycle (e.g., "fifth indiction", "tenth indiction") in the 4th century, and was used long after the tax was no longer collected. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anno_Domini
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| | Articles - Christianization |
| | Like other feasts in the Christian year, the earlier observations were Christianized as the feast of All Saints. | | | Several Christian feasts occupy moments in the year that were formerly devoted to pagan celebrations. | | | Few Christian churches built in the first half millennium of the established Christian Church were not built upon sites already consecrated as pagan temples or mithraea, the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome being simply the most obvious example. |
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http://www.sonicplayer.net/articles/Christianize
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| | Blogger: Email Post to a Friend |
| | For my part, I have no problem with "C.E." and "B.C.E." As far as I'm concerned, Jesus was born in the 32nd year Before the Christian Era; I was born in the 1982nd year of the Christian Era. | | | One is to admit that the event that marked the end of the previous era and the beginning of the "Common Era" was the death (and resurrection) of Christ and the birth of Christianity. | | | And not surprisingly so, since the Christian dating system that we use today implicity declares the death and resurrection of Christ to be the most important event in dated history. |
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http://www.blogger.com/email-post.g?blogID=8729943&postID=109791711854527785
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| | Resources for Christian Worship |
| | The Season of the Christian Church Year known as Pentecost, its history from the Old Testament, and its significance as an aspect of Christian theology and worship. | | | The Christian Season of Epiphany, the climax of the season of Advent and Christmas, and its place in the church year, including a reflective prayer. | | | The Christian Season of Advent from a Protestant perspective, including the meaning of the symbols used to celebrate it and its theological significance as part of Christian worship. |
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http://www.cresourcei.org/worship.html
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| | Resources for Christian Worship |
| | The Season of the Christian Church Year known as Pentecost, its history from the Old Testament, and its significance as an aspect of Christian theology and worship. | | | The Christian Season of Epiphany, the climax of the season of Advent and Christmas, and its place in the church year, including a reflective prayer. | | | The Christian Season of Advent from a Protestant perspective, including the meaning of the symbols used to celebrate it and its theological significance as part of Christian worship. |
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http://www.cresourcei.org/worship.html
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| | When Does the Millennium Begin? |
| | He just wanted to replace the year numbering systems of the defunct Roman Empire with a new system that would cover the history of the Christian church. | | | The traditional numbering system was devised by the Catholic scholar Dionysius Exiguus ("Dennis the Small"), who lived about 500 years after Jesus. | | | In other words, the year numbering system is arbitrary, not scriptural. |
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http://www.unc.edu/depts/cmse/math/millenium.html
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| | Sunday School- House of Hope |
| | Children and youth are divided into six primary areas for Christian Education: nursery, toddler, 3 Year Olds, pre-kindergarten and kindergarten, elementary, middle school and senior. | | | It is the goal of The House of Hope Presbyterian Church to reach, teach and nurture children and young people in the Christian faith and Presbyterian traditions. | | | Sunday Adult Education Programs at House of Hope Presbyterian Church The programs focus on several areas: Theology and the Reformed Tradition, Christian Personal and Family Life, Bible Study, and Faith and Works. |
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http://www.hohchurch.org/sunday.asp
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| | A Jubilee Year, Papal Indulgences, and Christian Unity? |
| | In contrast to scripture, next year the holy doors of Rome will all be closed, and the special papal indulgence ended, until the next Catholic Jubilee year of 2025. | | | On that day Pope John Paul II opened the fourth and final holy door in Rome at St. Paul's outside the walls, a symbolic proclamation of the Jubilee year, along with its plenary papal indulgence. | | | What set this particular Catholic ceremony apart from previous Jubilees was that it also was designated as the event beginning a week of prayer for Christian Unity! |
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http://www.aloha.net/~mikesch/holy-door.htm
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| | Great Jubilee: Information From Answers.com |
| | The first year, 1997 would be marked by an exploration of the person of Jesus, the second, 1998, by meditation on the person of the Holy Spirit, and the third, 1999, by meditation on the person of God the Father. | | | December 10, 2000: Jubilee of Catechists and Teachers of religion | | | The indulgence could also be obtained in the Holy Land by a visit to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, or the Church of the Annunciation in Nazareth. |
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http://www.answers.com/topic/great-jubilee
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| | AMFi Glossary of Terms |
| | The Jewish holiday observed each year on the 14th of Adar, celebrating the deliverance of the Jewish people from the wicked Haman in the days of Queen Esther of Persia, as described in the book of Esther. | | | A council of the early church which convened at Nicea in the year 365, in which (among many other decisions) Christians were prohibited from celebrating the Passover with the Jewish people. | | | When early Christians believed they had found their Messiah, they naturally referred to him as "the Christ." When Christians say "Jesus Christ" they are actually saying "Jesus the Messiah." |
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http://www.amfi.org/glossary.htm
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| | How to Find A Good Christian Wife |
| | If one person has become a Christian and the other has not, then total separation is the best thing to do according to the scriptures. | | | Deu 24:5 When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken. | | | After all of the problems you and your new wife have been through in the past, the first year is the time to generate many new positive memories together. |
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http://members.aol.com/countdown6000/ct6/wife12.html
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: General Chronology |
| | This was introduced about the year 527 by Dionysius Exiguus, a Scythian monk resident at Rome, who fixed its starting point in the year 753 from the foundation of Rome, in which year, according to his calculation, the birth of Christ occurred. | | | Not till the first year of Queen Elizabeth was it enacted that the former should be the rule. | | | King John dated his reign from his coronation, 27 May, 1199, but this being the Feast of the Ascension, his years were counted from one occurrence of this festival to the next, and were accordingly of varying length. |
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| | Scottish Christian: the Church, churches, Christianity and religion in Scotland |
| | Scottish Christian: the Church, churches, Christianity and religion in Scotland | | | A minister who has been one of the fiercest critics of the Church of Scotland's general assembly is a candidate to become moderator next year. | | | The Moderator of the Church of Scotland's General Assembly has spoken of his "shock and sorrow" on hearing of the devastation caused by the South Asian earthquake. |
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http://www.scottishchristian.com
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| | FAQ |
| | It merely relabels the Christian Era without changing the substance (the year numbering). | | | Originally, this year numbering system purported to be a count of the years since Christ came to earth. | | | The only active opposition we've seen has come from a very small percentage of Christians that can be described as Christian Triumphalists -- these are Christians that glorify any evidence that might support their belief that Christianity is the greatest religion on earth and the only one that has validity. |
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http://www.go2zero.com/faq.htm
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| | Borrowed Ideas; Persian Roots of Christian Traditions |
| | While Christians around the world are preparing to celebrate Christmas on Dec. 25th, the Persians are getting ready to tribute one of their most festive celebrations on Dec. 21st, the eve of winter solstice, the longest night and shortest day of the year. | | | Early Christians took this very ancient Persian celebration to Mithra, the sun- god, and linked it to Christ's birthday. | | | Nowadays all Christians who celebrate the birth of Jesus, light fireplaces and candles, decorate trees with lights, stay up all night, sing and dance, eat special foods, pay visits, and celebrate this festive occasion with family and friends. |
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