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| | Easter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | This is succinctly summarized by the Orthodox Easter hymn "Christ is Risen": | | | Entirely lit by candle, the priest and congregation process around the church building and return for the completion of the liturgy—again entirely lit by candles held by the congregation. | | | Placing the Paschal Divine Liturgy at midnight guarantees that no Divine Liturgy will come earlier in the morning, ensuring its place as the pre-eminent "Feast of Feasts" in the liturgical year. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascha
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| | The Origins of Pascha and Great Week |
| | Pascha, which commemorates the resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, is the oldest, most venerable and preeminent feast of the Church. | | | By the second century the churches of Asia Minor had come to observe Pascha on the 14 of Nisan, the day on which the Lord was crucified, while all the other churches observed Pascha on the Sunday after the 14 of Nisan, emphasizing the resurrection. | | | The hymns of Great Week and Pascha were written by some of the most excellent hymnographers of the Church. |
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http://www.faithandvalues.com/tx/GREEK-103/1
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| | The Antiochian Orthodox Church in the United Kingdom and Ireland |
| | Let us remember that because the word "Pascha" is in its origin a Hebrew word, by using it we are a witness to the Jewish community, for whom the Passover is still one of the most important words in their religious faith. | | | Pascha is derived from the Jewish word Pesah which means "Passover". | | | An example of the desire to replace the word "Pascha" with "Easter" is the King James version translation of Acts 12:4 which describes the arrest of Peter by Herod and his intention "after Easter to bring him forth to the people". |
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http://www.antiochian-orthodox.co.uk/pascha.htm
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| | Dating Pascha in the Orthodox Church |
| | Consequently, it is the combination of these variables which accounts for the different dates of Pascha observed by the Orthodox Church and other Christian Churches. | | | The Orthodox Church continues to base its calculations for the date of Pascha on the Julian Calendar, which was in use at the time of the First Ecumenical Council. | | | Christians, therefore, celebrated Pascha according to the same calculation-that is, on the first Sunday after the first full moon following the vernal equinox. |
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http://www.goarch.org/en/ourfaith/articles/article7050.asp
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| | Pascha - The Resurrection of Our Lord (Easter) |
| | Pascha is the Feast of feasts, the Triumph of triumphs and, therefore, the services of this feast are exceptionally magnificent and especially triumphant. | | | The spiritual joy of Pascha is expressed in the victorious hymn: "Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death, and upon those in the tomb bestowing life," and is felt in the heart of each believer. | | | Pascha is the essence of our faith, for Christ rose from the dead, as we will rise from the dead. |
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http://www.orthodoxphotos.com/readings/feasts/pascha.shtml
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| | Pascha: Festivities and Symbols |
| | Pascha 2000 has finally arrived- the celebration of the Feast of Feasts. | | | Think of those whose families are divided by members who have left the Body of Christ, adhere to a schismatic or heretical denomination, and thereby choose not to celebrate Christ’s Resurrection with the same joyous festivities as the rest of the Orthodox world, or even at the same time as their Orthodox family members. | | | Little do they realise that these pagan symbols and feasts, to the Christian, are actually a blessing in disguise, and are ways and means of celebrating the truths of the One true God. |
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http://www.orthodoxresearchinstitute.org/resources/sermons/brown_pascha_sermon.htm
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| | The Date of Pascha |
| | The early Church in the East continued to observe Pascha on the eve of the 14 th of Nisan, according the Jewish Calendar, with the Resurrection on the third day, that is on the 15 th. | | | Further more, I believe that the Orthodox Church is imprecisely dating Pascha using an inaccurate calendar that she has abandoned for all other feast days. | | | Strictly speaking, then, we must distinguish between the Feast of Pascha (on Holy Friday) and the Feast of the Resurrection (on Sunday); the two are inseparable though distinct. |
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http://www.antiochian.org/date-of-pascha.html
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| | Pascha: The Christian Passover |
| | Pascha, which is translated from the Hebrew, means Passover. | | | For this is the day on which God created the world from nothingness. | | | On the Great and Holy Sunday of Pascha, we celebrate the Life-giving Resurrection of our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ. |
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http://www.theologic.com/oflweb/feasts/pascha_the_christian_passover.htm
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| | EASTER PASTORAL: The Pascha of the Lord challenges us to be faithful (04/11/99) |
| | We greet you, the clergy, monastic and people of God of the eparchies of the Holy Ukrainian Orthodox Church, with the joyful and encouraging words of the Paschal hymn ascribed to a father of the Church, St. John of Damascus: "Shine in splendor... | | | The Pascha of the Lord, in its spiritual beauty, reminds us of Him Who voluntarily ascended the cross and underwent unspeakable torments out of love for all humanity. | | | In celebrating the Lord's Pascha, which sanctifies all, we embrace in the love of the risen Lord, the archpastors, pastors and sons and daughters of Christ's Church in Ukraine, and assure them of our love and prayers. |
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http://www.ukrweekly.com/Archive/1999/159918.shtml
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| | HTC: Holy Week and Pascha |
| | Pre-eminent among all the festivals is Pascha, the Feast of Feasts, which determines all the movable feasts for the liturgical calendar. | | | The week before Pascha in the Orthodox Church, called Great and Holy Week, is set apart in the ecclesiastical year, so that we might stop and change our pace, meditate upon and relive the last week in our Lord's life which opened the doors of paradise. | | | Holy Saturday evening gives witness of the faithful gathering in church to participate in the feast of feasts, Pascha, the Resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. |
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http://www.holy-trinity.org/feasts/holyweek.html
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| | Pascha |
| | The date for Pascha in the early Church was determined using the Old Testament formula for Passover and fell on the 14th of Nisan (Exodus 12:6) no matter what day of the week it was. | | | Easter Sunday is referred to in the Orthodox Church as Pascha, which is Greek for "Passover". | | | For example, at the tomb on Pascha morning, Jesus told Mary Magdalene, "Do not cling to me for I have not yet ascended to My Father..." (John 20:17). |
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http://www.stathanasius.org/bible/pascha.html
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| | Pascha All |
| | We call the present Feast ‘Pascha’, which in Hebrew means ‘Passing Over’; for this is the day on which God from the beginning brought the world out of non-existence. | | | We insert 8 verses, and sing 4 of the Resurrection from the Octoichos in Tone 1, and 4 of Pascha. | | | On the holy and great Sunday of Pascha we celebrate the life-bearing Resurrection of our Lord and God and Saviour Jesus Christ itself. |
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http://www.anastasis.org.uk/pascha.htm
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| | Our Lady of Fatima Byzantine Catholic Church, Pascha |
| | The theological name for the Feast of the Resurrection is Pascha. | | | The majority of the Apostolic Sees (Constantinople, Antioch, Alexandria, Jerusalem, their daughter churches, and also those outside the Roman Empire) remember that the Council said that not only could Pascha not fall on Passover, it could not fall before Passover. | | | In Orthodox Christian worship, the period of time immediately preceding the celebration of the resurrection is called Great and Holy Week. |
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http://www.byzantinecatholic.org/Feasts/Pascha2.html
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| | Subdeacon Paul Feeney |
| | This listing, while not exhaustive, certainly points to a fact of our Orthodox Liturgical and Sacramental Life: Pascha is the Center of our Christian Life and the way we meet, partake of, participate in, and worship the all holy and life creating Trinity: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. | | | Pascha is how the Risen Christ now lives His Trinitarian Life. | | | Pascha is how the Risen Christ now lives in us. |
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http://www.dartmouth.edu/~ocf/pascha_now.html
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| | Melkite Greek Catholic Church Information Center Holy and Glorious Pascha Celebration Second Day - Bright Monday or New ... |
| | For the Forty Days from the Feast of Feasts Holy and Glorious Pascha (Feasts of Feasts) to the Great Feast of the Ascension, we celebrate the Holy and Glorious Resurrection of our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ from the dead. | | | Standing from the Feast of Feasts Holy and Glorious Pascha until the Great Feast of Pentecost | | | Pascal Greeting, Pascal Troparion, Feasting, the Doors and Curtains of the Ikonostasis are Open, Paschal Candle from the Feast of Feasts Holy and Glorious Pascha until the beginning of the Vespers of the Great Feast of the Ascension into Heaven of Our Lord, God and Savior Jesus Christ. |
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http://www.mliles.com/melkite/brightmonday.shtml
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| | Why does the date of Pascha differ from Western Easter so much? |
| | In Asia Minor, the churches celebrated Pascha on the 14th of Nisan whether it fell on Sunday or a weekday. | | | Eventually, somewhere towards the end of the Second Century, the churches of Asia Minor agreed to celebrate Pascha with the other churches on the Sunday after the 14th of Nisan. | | | Many other churches celebrated Pascha on the Sunday that followed the 14th of Nisan. |
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http://www.antiochian.org/1290
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| | Pascha & Customs of the Carpatho-Rusyn People |
| | Pascha (or Paskha) is the highest celebration of the Orthodox Church. | | | Our people always thought that at Pascha Christ comes out of heaven with His Apostles, dressed in beggar's rags, to wander the whole world over, and that He comes to people's homes in the form of a wanderer [*strannik*] or a beggar, in order to test people's kind-heartedness. | | | At Pascha, we remember with especial compassion that there are those in the world who are sick and unfortunate. |
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http://www.wirnowski.com/Carp/Pas_Customs.html
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| | Canon of Pascha |
| | O Pascha, the great and most sacred Passover, O Christ, * You the wisdom and Logos and the power of God: * Grant that we may more distinctly partake of You * on that day that has no evening in Your kingly rule. |
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http://www.bright.net/~palamas/CyberPsaltiri/Pentecostarion/PaschaCanon.htm
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| | Spritual Nourishment For the Soul, February 1999 - Holy Pascha & The Light Of Christ |
| | The date of Holy Pascha is on April 11th this year for all faithful and loving Orthodox Christians around the world. | | | So then, joyfully and triumphantly let all creation celebrate the Resurrection of Christ, according to the hymn of the Church: Let the heavens be glad as is meet and let the earth rejoice and the let the whole world, both visible and invisible, keep festival: for Christ Is Risen, O gladness eternal. | | | All of us within the Eastern Orthodox Church are preparing to behold the Light of Christ our Lord, on Holy Pascha, the pious celebration of our Lord's Holy Glorious Resurrection. |
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http://www.serfes.org/spiritual/april1999.htm
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| | Easter and Pascha: All About Easter |
| | Easter (also called "Pascha" or some variant by most non-English speaking Christians) is the feast celebrating Jesus' resurrection from the dead, and is the greatest and oldest feast of the Church. | | | Easter, also called Pascha, is the feast of Christ's resurrection from the dead. | | | This is probably because the festival of Easter overlapped some pagan holiday in ancient England. |
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| | Pascha Sunday |
| | The celebration of Easter/Pascha in the Orthodox Church is once again not merely an historical reenactment of the event of Christ's Resurrection as narrated in the gospels. | | | The best way to prepare for Pascha is to participate in the services of Holy Week: Bridegroom; Presanctified; Holy Unction; Holy Thurs-day's Liturgy and 12 Gospels; Holy Friday's Royal Hours, Taking Down from the Cross and Lamentations; Holy Saturday's Vesperal Liturgy. | | | One way is to awake them about 5:00 am on Holy Saturday morning, then put them to bed about 5:00 PM Reawake them at 10:00 or 10:30 pm to get ready for Church. |
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http://www.saintbarbara.org/faith/holyweek/eastersunday.cfm
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| | Pascha, St. Elias, Easter |
| | Thus "Pascha" would have been the word used by the Lord Jesus, the holy Theotokos, the illustrious Apostles, etc. | | | "Pascha" is simply the Aramaic form of "ha Pesakh", Hebrew for " |
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http://www.saintelias.com/Pascha/Pascha2002.html
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| | Apostolic Founder of the Church of India |
| | In fact, the term "Pascha" is the most liturgically correct form to denote the feast of feasts that is the Resurrection of our Lord, God and Saviour, Jesus Christ. | | | However, when we say "Pascha," we are actually referring not to the day of His Resurrection, but to OLGS Jesus Christ Himself IN His Resurrection. | | | Therefore, we cannot refer to Easter Sunday as "Pascha," but to the "day of the Holy Pascha" or "Den Svyatoji Paskhy" since this is the day OF the Risen Christ. |
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http://www.unicorne.org/orthodoxy/hiver2004/pascha.htm
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| | THE PASCHAL SEASON |
| | The celebration of Pascha was instituted by the first generation of Christians, by the Church of the Holy Apostles. | | | In the Christian churches of Asia Minor, where there were many Jews who had come to believe in Christ, the feast of Pascha was celebrated on the Jewish Passover, i.e. | | | However, during the earliest centuries of the Christian era, there was not yet absolute unity of practice as to the day upon which Pascha, the Resurrection of Christ,should be celebrated. |
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http://www.stjohndc.org/russian/What/e_9804a.HTM
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| | The Pastoral Letter at Holy Pascha, 2001 |
| | The Feast of Holy Pascha is not just a commemoration of an event that took place almost two millennia in the past when Christ rose from the dead. | | | The hymns of Pascha tell us that now, not only in the past, "all things are filled with light; heaven and earth, and the nethermost regions of the earth" (Ode III, 2 of the Kanon of Pascha). | | | At the beginning of the service in which you are now participating, the priest lit a candle from the candela that rests on the Holy Table in the Altar of the Church. |
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http://www.romarch.org/eng/pastorals/pascha_2001.php
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| | The Proposal for a Common Date to Celebrate Pascha and Easter |
| | This proposed WCC notion concerning a common date for Easter and Pascha is a simple attempt to achieve a superficial "cosmetic" unity among Orthodox and Heterodox Christians, when in fact there are severe differences in dogma, doctrine, and matters of Faith that place us miles and miles apart from one another. | | | At the same time, however, the Orthodox should note that the WCC is attempting to foist its agenda and beliefs upon the Orthodox in a less than gentlemanly manner. | | | Such an assumption would lead the Orthodox Church away from determining the date of Pascha according to the Julian calendar, and would eventually result in its celebration prior to, or coincident with, the Jewish Passover. |
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http://www.orthodoxinfo.com/ecumenism/common_luhl.aspx
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| | JS Online: Blossoming faith: Pascha finds joy in resurrection |
| | Instead of Easter, Orthodox Christians use the Greek term Pascha, which is derived from the Hebrew word for Passover. | | | For the faithful at St. Nicholas Orthodox Church in Cedarburg, and at other Orthodox churches in the area, the budding and blossoming greenery outdoors has been a fitting symbol for the Holy Week observances that lead up to the most sacred observance in Christendom. | | | On Pascha Sunday, the resurrection of Jesus is celebrated. |
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http://www.jsonline.com/lifestyle/religion/may02/40664.asp
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| | Meaning of the word "Pascha" |
| | But the Bible clearly indicates the New Testament belief that Christ is the New Pascha for believers in Him, and that this is to be celebrated by Christians: | | | Thus the celebration of Christ's Resurrection became the first Christian Feast - the Christian Pascha. | | | We do not have a command from Jesus to celebrate the Paschal Feast. |
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http://home.it.net.au/~jgrapsas/pages/Pascha_word.html
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| | Pascha vs. Easter (Onest) |
| | According to the Venerable Bede (673-735 AD), a monk who wrote about Anglo-Saxon mythology, Pascha Sunday was called "Easter" in connection with the Anglo-Saxon goddess Eostre/Ostara. | | | So while Christians are celebrating the birth or resurrection of Jesus, modern-day pagans are celebrating the return of light or the goddess of spring and fertility. | | | In many Orthodox churches the red eggs are blessed by the priest and distributed at the Resurrection service. |
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http://www.theologic.com/oflweb/lentpask/estrmyth.htm
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| | Sarisburium: My first Pascha! |
| | I shall be going to the church on Saturday morning to help prepare for Pascha, while speaking with the parish priest, and he has graciously offered to exend his hospitality to me as a host, to save me making the 40 mile train journey (three trains) home at night, only to return in the morning. | | | My first time in an Orthodox church was Pascha in about 1981. | | | Given the Orthodox love for repetition, you'll soon be able to participate. |
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http://sarisburium.blogspot.com/2005/04/my-first-pascha.html
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| | Holy Week and Pascha |
| | This book, as well as the book written by my beloved professor and friend, Rev. Alkiviadis Calivas entitled, "Great Week and Pascha in the Greek Orthodox Church," (Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 50 Goddard Avenue, Brookline, MA) are indispensable resources for all Orthodox Christians. | | | It has been prepared in the hope of enhancing the Holy Week experience for all of God's faithful. | | | The English translation of the Hymns have been taken from the book entitled: "The Service for Holy Week and Easter" which is available through Narthex Press (P.O. Box 280758, Northridge, CA 91328-0758). |
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http://www.saintbarbara.org/faith/holyweek/index.cfm
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| | Eastern Orthodox dogma, prayers, traditions and more about Pascha |
| | The Serbian Orthodox Church to her spiritual children at Pascha, 2003 | | | This Hymn is sung first softly, then progressively louder just before the beginning on Pascha matins, in the darkened church. | | | Eastern Orthodox dogma, prayers, traditions and more about Pascha |
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http://www.orthodox.net/pascha
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| | Russian Royal Family The Last Easter -Pascha- For Tsar Martryr Nicholas II & Family, April 1917 |
| | The Imperial Family apparently read these religious books throughout the whole year, and this is evident from their diaries and the many religious books found after their Holy Martyrdom on July 17th, 1918, at the Ipative house. | | | While under house arrest, the family held their last holy week services and Holy Pascha (Easter), in the same way that every Orthodox Christian participated in these Holy Week services and looked forward spiritually for the services for the Bright Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ. | | | The parish priest from the Russian Orthodox Church were able to come to the Tsarskoe Selo to perform the necessary services for Holy Week and Holy Pascha. |
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http://www.serfes.org/royal/pasha.htm
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| | E.W.RIGGS:PASCHA IN THE ORTHODOX CHURCH |
| | The Holy Pascha is revealed to us today. | | | The Pascha all honorable has dawned for us. | | | Throughout Great Lent, there are many special services during the week in addition to the usual Vigil and Divine Liturgy on Saturday evening and Sunday morning, respectively. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/ga/riggs/pascha.htm
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| | Easter |
| | By celebrating this feast of feasts on different days, the churches give a divided witness to this fundamental aspect of the apostolic faith, compromising their credibility and effectiveness in bringing the Gospel to the world. | | | One very sensitive issue, with enormous pastoral consequences for all the Christian faithful, has taken on growing urgency: the need to find a common date for the celebration of Easter, the Holy Pascha, the feast of Christ's resurrection. | | | Besides the work already done on baptism, eucharist and ministry, the churches need to address the renewal of preaching, the recovery of the meaning of Sunday and the search for a common celebration of Pascha as ecumenical theological concerns. |
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http://wcc-coe.org/wcc/what/faith/easter.html
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| | The Great Lent & Holy Week - Coptic Orthodox Feasts < Saint Takla Haymanot COC - Alexandria - Egypt |
| | The word Pascha is the Hebrew word which means Passover. | | | Also, when the church denounces Judas' betrayal with a kiss on the eve of Wednesday's Pascha, ask yourself in prayer, "How often, O Lord, have I betrayed You?" "How many times have I told You words of love in prayers, while my actions show the opposite and my heart is far away from You?" | | | The reason Sundays are excluded when counting these 40 days is that each Sunday is a celebration of the day of the week on which Christ rose. |
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http://www.st-takla.org/Feastes-&-Special-Events/Feasts-Holy-Lent_Al-Soum-Al-Kebeer-&-Pascha.html
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| | HOLY WEEK AND PASCHA IN JERUSALEM |
| | O what joy there was then, and who would not weep for joy, beholding the Grave of their Saviour Jesus Christ before their own eyes, standing empty, for He has risen from the dead! | | | We rejoiced because of this, that we would receive the new grace of the heavenly Fire, and celebrate the most radiant festival of Holy Pascha in the Holy City of Jerusalem. | | | Who could not thank their Creator Who had deemed them worthy to celebrate Holy Pascha, His glorious Resurrection from the dead, in the Holy City of Jerusalem, around His very Grave and on that very spot where the mystery of our salvation was accomplished? |
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http://www.ocf.org/OrthodoxPage/reading/holyfire.html
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| | On Pascha, by Melito of Sardis |
| | Hippolytus reports that he was among the earliest proponants of the two natures in Christ, and Jerome echoes Tertullian in noting that Melito was considered a prophet by many in his own day. | | | The present text, On Pascha, was written c. | | | It is He who in many endured many things: |
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| | Pascha (Passover) and the Exodus from Egypt |
| | This is why the Church always celebrates the Resurrection of Christ after the Jewish Passover and calls the feast Pascha. | | | The word Pascha means "passing by," "passover," or "deliverance from misfortune" — the angel of death passed over the Hebrew dwellings. | | | In the Old Testament Pascha, death passed over the dwellings of the Hebrews. |
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| | HTC: Palm Sunday to Pascha: Orthodox Customs |
| | There are many examples of pious traditions in the week from Palm Sunday through Pascha, the feast of the Resurrection. | | | An Arabic tradition is to hold candles decorated with flowers for Palm Sunday along with palm branches. | | | Orthodox traditions (written with a small "T") are defined as pious customs - they are things that we do, not things that we believe. |
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http://www.holy-trinity.org/general/customs.html
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| | -- Beliefnet.com |
| | Choir: Today, a sacred Pascha is revealed to us, | | | A Pascha worthy of all honor has dawned for us, | | | For today as from a bridal chamber Christ has shown forth from the tomb and filled the women with joy saying: |
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| | USCCB - Common Response to the Aleppo Statement on the Date of Easter/Pascha |
| | Yet by celebrating the feast of Christ's resurrection, the Holy Pascha, or Easter, on different Sundays in the same year, "the churches give a divided witness" to this mystery, "compromising their credibility and effectiveness in bringing the Gospel to the world" (paragraph 1). | | | As "the ultimate expression of the Father's gift of reconciliation and unity in Christ through the Spirit," the resurrection "is a sign of the unity and reconciliation which God wills for the entire creation" (paragraph 5). | | | As they witness to God's love for the world, our churches need to use the findings of contemporary science as did the Fathers of Nicaea. |
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http://www.nccbuscc.org/seia/orthodox.htm
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| | Pascha Photos 2002 |
| | Candles are passed out and remain unlit until this part of the service, when the procession starts and the priest comes out from behind the iconostasis with a triple-candle and lights candles at the front of the church. | | | Email the Priest / Email the Webmaster / Wisdom List Subscribe/Unsubscribe / Sts. | | | Thomas blesses the Pascha baskets with his wife, Mat. |
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http://www.holyapostles.org/pascha_photos_2002.htm
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| | Great Week & Holy Pascha |
| | Father Mark will be visiting shut-ins on Holy Monday through Holy Wednesday to administer Holy Unction and Holy Communion. | | | We must cling to Him, be crucified with Him, and experience the unspeakable joy brought about by the New Life bestowed upon us by His Resurrection! | | | May He, Who for all of us endured His Holy Life-saving Passion, bless our entire Annunciation Parish Family through this Holy Week and Pascha! |
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http://daytonannunciation.org/Pages/WordFromFather/HolyLent/GAHPascha.htm
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| | Byzantine Matins for the Feast of Pascha |
| | In most parishes the celebration of Pascha continues with the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom. | | | Stichera and selected psalm verses are taken from Resurrection Matins, by the Byzantine Seminary Press, Pittsburgh, 1976. |
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http://www.byzcath.org/faith/worship/matins-pascha.html
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| | Pascha Covers |
| | The covers are use to protect the contents of the baskets brought to church for blessing. | | | For many people in America, this phrase, meaning "Christ is Risen" is the only words they can recognize in Cyrillic. | | | The messages can be found in English, Slovak, Rusyn, Church Slavonic, Ukrainian and other languages of Eastern Europe. |
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