Category: pascha
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Loaves, Fishes, Pascha
A Calendar Nerd ramble on the meaning of Barley Loaves and the dating of Pascha. The context for setting the date of Pascha as “not with the Jews” has nothing to do with the current Hebrew Calendar or the date of Passover on it. Rather it’s a good bit more complex. And therefor, for a…
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Not Victoria’s Sandwich
How to make a new kind of sponge sandwich. Only at Pascha time, though.
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Paschal Hours
Christ is Risen! In the Eastern tradition, regular hourly prayers are suspended through bright week (from Pascha until the following Saturday). During that time the following Paschal Hours are read for all the “minor” hours – The midnight office, Prime, Terce, Sext and None and Compline – during the day (Matins, Vespers are also in special…
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Updates
MEDITATING on the material in previous posts has moved some updates into my brain. I have tended to add “update: some stuff” to the posts, but I think that doesn’t get the updated material out to readers by email. Going forward I will do update posts like this one and add an update link to…
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Holy Week Again
YOUR HOST HAS Been volunteering in a Byzantine Catholic Parish that uses the Julian Paschalion and the Julian Calendar as well. Thus this week is Holy Week, with Pascha today, 16 April. In the US, for most Byzantine Catholics, last week was Holy Week so we’re really a Unicorn here. This has raised questions among…
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Atone-over
IN THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH’s Book of Common Prayer (1979), as the priest breaks the consecrated bread, is sung the Fraction Anthem. “Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us. Therefore let us keep the feast.” John the Baptist, of course, refers to Christ as the “Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world”…
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Pascal Hours
FROM THE EASTERN RITE Tradition, these prayers are said during Bright Week. I like them for “waking up” and “Going to Bed” prayers all during the Easter Season. Even the forty-fold “Lord Have Mercy” seems celebratory. +Through the prayers of our holy fathers, Lord Jesus Christ, our God, have mercy on us. Amen. +Christ is…
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The Thomas Option
Today’s Readings: Acts 2:42-47 1 Peter 1:3-9 John 20:19-31 On the evening of that first day of the week, when the doors were locked, where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews… Thomas, called Didymus, one of the Twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. John 20:19a, 24 Where was Thomas that first night…
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Christ is Risen!
The Paschal Homily of St. John Chrysostom If any man be devout and love God, let him enjoy this fair and radiant triumphal feast.If any man be a wise servant, let him rejoicing enter into the joy of his Lord.If any have labored long in fasting, let him now receive his recompense.If any have wrought…
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