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| | Passover - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Passover is significant in Christian theology because according to the Synoptic Gospels, the Last Supper was the Passover meal eaten on the 15th of Nisan and Jesus was arrested that night and crucified the following afternoon (the Gospel of John puts the events a day earlier). | | | Together with Sukkot and Shavuot, Passover is one of the three pilgrim festivals (Shalosh Regalim) during which the entire Jewish populace made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in the days of the Holy Temple. | | | During the liturgy, Christians recite the Agnus Dei and certain fraction sentences (for example, "Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us; therefore let us keep the feast") at the breaking of the bread (the symbolic body of Christ). |
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| | Hexapedia - Passover |
| | The Roman Christian Church developed its tradition of celebrating the resurrection, deviating from the celebration of God's appointed Holy Day of the Passover representing the death of Jesus, early in its history. | | | Christian Passover The New Testament of the Bible depicts Jesus as the culmination of the Passover Lamb of God, therefore, some Christians continue to celebrate the Passover, but with different meaning. | | | Origins of the feast The term Passover comes from the Bible, first mentioned in the book of Exodus. |
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http://www.hexafind.com/encyclopedia/Passover
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| | Good Friday |
| | In the days of the early Christian church, only Easter Sunday was celebrated as a holy day. | | | To most Christians, Good Friday is really a misnomer in that it was a "bad" Fridaythe crucifixion day of Jesus. | | | Ceremonial worship of the holiday follows closely to the events described in the scriptures. |
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http://www.holidayorigins.com/html/good_friday.html
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| | Sabbath - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Christians continued to observe the seventh day as holy for centuries after the crucifixion of Jesus, along with the first day observances which became traditional in the Catholic and Orthodox church. | | | Their rationalization for observing the Lord's Day as a fulfillment of the Sabbath, freeing the Christian from the Sabbath ordinances given to the Jews, is because of the general sense of Scripture in light of the identity, teaching, death, resurrection, and present reign of Jesus, the "Lord of the Sabbath", revealed in Scripture. | | | Ten days later, at the onset of the feast of Pentecost (See: Shavuot) the Christians say that the Spirit of God was given to the disciples of Christ, establishing the Christian Church, on the first day of the week. |
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| | Holy Week |
| | In the earliest days of the Christian church, the event we commemorate in the Triduum were celebrated in one day and night's continuous worship service called the Pascha (from the Greek transliteration of the Hebrew word for "Passover"). | | | Holy Week, together with Easter, is the most sacred part of the Christian calendar -- the celebration of the death and resurrection Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. | | | Holy Week begins with Palm Sunday, the Sunday before Easter. |
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http://www.stpaulskingsville.org/holyweek.htm
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| | Holy Week - Passion Week - Semana Santa |
| | Maundy Thursday or Holy Thursday was the day on which Christ gathered with his followers for the Passover Seder, the "Last Supper," where he taught for the last time and instituted the Christian concept of sharing communion. | | | Holy Tuesday - The theme is the vigilance of the wise virgins (Matthew 25: 1-13) who, unlike their foolish sisters, were ready when the Lord came to them. | | | Holy or Maundy Thursday is the beginning of the three days known as the sacrum triduum - the Sacred or Holy Three Days. |
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| | Pentecost - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Pentecost is the Christian festival that commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles, fifty days after the Resurrection of Jesus at Easter, and ten days after the Ascension. | | | The name "Pentecost" comes from the Greek word Pentékosté, meaning "fiftieth", and originally referred to Shavuot, celebrated after seven full weeks on the fiftieth day after Passover (the second day of Passover, on the 16th of Nisan, is the first day of counting the Omer). | | | The Hebrew festival was originally connected with celebrating the first-fruits of the spring grain harvest, but the Christian festival lost those associations to the new association with the descent of the Holy Spirit. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentecost
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| | THE PASCHAL SEASON |
| | According to the decision of the Council, Christian Pascha must be celebrated on the first Sunday after the first full moon of the Spring, but always after the Passover of the Jews. | | | 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. |
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| | Passover |
| | The Roman Christian Church developed its tradition of celebrating the resurrection, deviating from the celebration of God's appointed Holy Day of the Passover representing the death of Jesus, early in its history. | | | The Eastern Churches believed that Christians should continue in the tradition of the Apostles of celebrating the Passover on the 14th of Nisan (also known as Abib), whereas the Roman Church had already abandoned the Passover in favor of a celebration on the following Sunday. | | | In letters exchanged between the Eastern (Greek) churches and the Roman Church as early as the second century, a dispute is laid out that is referred to as the "Quartodeciman Controversy". |
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| | Pentecost - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The name "Pentecost" comes from the Greek word Pentékosté, meaning "fiftieth", and originally referred to Shavuot, celebrated after seven full weeks on the fiftieth day after Passover (the second day of Passover, on the 16th of Nisan, is the first day of counting the Omer). | | | The Hebrew festival was originally connected with celebrating the first-fruits of the spring grain harvest, but the Christian festival lost those associations to the new association with the descent of the Holy Spirit. | | | This tradition of wearing white started after Pentecost was called Whit Sunday. |
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| | Jerusalem: In Depth : History : The Roman Occupation Frommers.com |
| | According to most Christian traditions, the Church of the Holy Sepulcher marks the site of the crucifixion and burial of Jesus, and the Via Dolorosa is the way Jesus trod, carrying the cross, from prison to Golgotha. | | | It was to the city that was a magnet for the ancient Jewish world that Jesus came to celebrate Passover, and it was in Jerusalem that under Pontius Pilate, the Roman procurator, Jesus was imprisoned and crucified. | | | Talmudic lore records that a group of rabbis walking on the Temple Mount noticed that a fox had made its lair in the wreckage of the Holy of Holies. |
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| | Annie's Easter History Page |
| | 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 Easter season concludes 10 days later with the feast of Pentecost, when the apostles reported that the Holy Spirit had entered into them. | | | Coincidence of the feasts of Easter and Passover was thus avoided. |
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| | Our Lady of Fatima Byzantine Catholic Church, Pascha |
| | In Orthodox Christian worship, the period of time immediately preceding the celebration of the resurrection is called Great and Holy Week. | | | 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. | | | Pascha is the new creation, the eighth day on which all things are made new. |
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| | Jesus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem at the end of his ministry is usually associated with the Passover Feast, as stated in the Bible, which additionally says that the waving of palm fronds and other greetings from the crowd were intended to hail Christ, not to celebrate the holy day. | | | According to the Gospels, Jesus was born in Bethlehem to Mary, a virgin, by the Holy Spirit. | | | Followers of Judaism reject both the Christian belief that Jesus was the Messiah and the Muslim belief that he was a prophet. |
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| | Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of March 24 |
| | The story was told that the Jews met in the synagogue on Tuesday of Holy Week to decide how to celebrate Passover that year, which fell on Holy Thursday. | | | There are probably some churches which had been dedicated to his patronage and celebrate their patronal feast day. | | | According to reports of the time, Simon was a 2-1/2-year-old Christian boy living in Trent, Italy. |
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| | What is Maundy Thursday? |
| | Maundy Thursday is the name given to the day on which Jesus celebrated the Passover with his disciples, known as the Last Supper. | | | Some Christian churches observe a foot-washing ceremony on Maundy Thursday to commemorate Jesus washing the feet of the disciples. | | | Maundy Thursday, also known as “Holy Thursday” is the Thursday of Passion Week, one day before Good Friday (the Thursday before Easter). |
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| | The Muslims Internet Directory: GLOSSARY FOR THE STUDY OF JUDAISM, CHRISTIANITY, AND ISLAM |
| | The most ancient Christian annual special day, commemorating the (death and) resurrection of Jesus/Joshua in the spring, at the time of Jewish Passover/Pesach (thus not a fixed day on the solar calendar). | | | A series of military operations by Christians from western Europe in the late 11th through the late 13th centuries (1096-1270) aimed at "freeing" the "holy land" of Jerusalem and Palestine from its Muslim rulers (considered "infidels" by the crusaders). | | | Muslim calendric observances include fasting during the month of Ramadan, followed by the feast of fast breaking (id al-fitr), and the time for pilgrimage to Mecca (hajj) and associated practices such as the Feast of Sacrifice. |
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| | Fasting and Great Lent |
| | Great Lent is the 40-day season of spiritual preparation that comes before the most important Feast of the Christian year, Holy Pascha (which means “Passover” and is commonly called “Easter”,). | | | The Prayer of Saint Ephraim the Syrian is traditionally said many times throughout each day during Great Lent, in addition to our daily prayers. | | | During Great Lent, the Church teaches us how to receive Him by using the two great means of repentance— prayer and fasting. |
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| | The Passover (No. 98) |
| | The Passover is the first Holy Day period of the sacred calendar, which is a lunar calendar of twelve lunar months with a thirteenth month seven times in the cycle of the calendar, which repeats itself every 19 years. | | | Rabi Kohn in The Sabbatarians in Transylvania states quite clearly that Rosh Hashanah, or the new year of Tishri, was a post Temple period tradition, which did not enter Judaism until the third century CE and was never observed in the Temple period or early Christian church; | | | The Jewish practice of observing new year in Tishri is thus an unauthorised pagan custom derived from the Babylonian system. |
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| | ~St. Simon of Trent~ |
| | The Hebrews killed the little boy Simon, in order to obey a rabbinical religious law; their motive being to serve a most wicked piety and devotion by obtaining Christian blood for the celebration of Passover. | | | The Holy Infant Martyr, St. Simon of Trent's feast day is always celebrated on March 24th. | | | This attack on St. Simon of Trent's sacred cult, by the Modernist infiltrators holed up in Rome, was/is in perfect harmony with their overall attempt [PLAN] to abandon TRADITION [THE FAITH] "in favor" of [i.e. |
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| | Whitby |
| | Clearly, the contentious disagreement between the Celtic and Roman churches as to the proper observance of the most holy day in the Christian calendar had become a source of divine displeasure. | | | The Council of Nicaea, convened by Constantine the Great in AD 325, declared that Easter was to be celebrated on the Sunday after Passover, that is, between Nisan fifteen and twenty-first. | | | Whitby also was the home of Caedmon, whose hymn, which he is said to have composed in a dream, is regarded as the first poem in English. |
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| | Articles - Jesus |
| | Christians generally believe Jesus was born of a virgin, crucified and buried, resurrected on the third day of death, and ascended into Heaven where he resides with God the Father until the Second Coming. | | | According to the Gospels, Jesus was born in Bethlehem to Mary, a virgin, by a miracle of the Holy Spirit. | | | Most Christians affirm the Nicene Creed and believe Jesus is both the Son of God and God made incarnate, sent to provide reconciliation with God by atoning for humanity's sins, and acceptance of Jesus as Saviour saves one from the penalties of sin (John 3:16). |
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| | Lenten season - Easter |
| | The first Holy Day celebrated by the Christian church was Easter. | | | The letter encouraged a uniform celebration of Easter that ignored the Jewish calendar (and its relation to Passover), on the basis that Jews had largely rejected Christ. | | | At first, these plants were not associated with Easter, but since they bloom near Easter time and the Bible mentions lilies as symbols of beauty (Luke 12:27), a connection grew. |
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| | The Movable Feasts |
| | The connection between the Jewish Passover and the Christian feast of Easter is both historical and logical. | | | The liturgy call it that chosen and holy day, the one standing our from among all the Sabbaths, king and lord among all the days, the feast of feasts and the solemnity of solemnities” (Eight ode of the Resurrection Service). | | | Easter, as the chief feast of the Liturgical year, besides being commemorated each Sunday has a special and solemn paschal cycle of its own during which the Church properly prepares for it, solemnly celebrates it, and reverently recalls it. |
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