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Tag Archives: Easter

Parshat Shemini: The Kosher Animal Song

Parshat Shemini: The Kosher Animal Song

Parshat Shemini: The Kosher Animal Song

This video comes with a “warning” – don’t stop before getting to the second part at 1:50! This is an animated version of the weekly Torah reading in the synagogue (in this case today’s) I’m particularly interested, with Passover (Pesach) being “in sync” with Western Easter this year, whether it is easier to see any… Continue Reading

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Easter is Coming

Easter is Coming

Easter is Coming

OK – some might say, this might have been put up before Easter… … but still pretty cool during the Easter Season. Easter is 50 days

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Resurrection: Rob Bell

Resurrection: Rob Bell

Resurrection: Rob Bell

Today is Day 10 of the Easter Season, the tenth day of Easter. On Sunday was Easter Day for many Christians who calculate Easter slightly differently. Please consider “attending” Easter is 50 days – by inviting friends to that “event” you are spreading the word that this is still Easter. Christ is risen!

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he descended to the dead

he descended to the dead

he descended to the dead

…crucifixus, mortuus, et sepultus, descendit ad inferos, tertia die resurrexit a mortuis… he descended to the dead… the Harrowing of Hell… Acts 2:27; Acts 2:31; 1 Peter 3:19-20; 1 Peter 4:6; 2 Corinthians 2:14; Ephesians 4:8-10; Zechariah 9:11; Psalm 68:17-18; Isaiah 24:21-22 …to save all of those who died in sin … starting with Adam… Continue Reading

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Easter is fifty days

chart for Lent and Easter Seasons

OK – so there’s a few obsessions that Bosco has: collects, unfussy worship, allowing symbols to speak for themselves,… and… that Easter is fifty days. Great Christian festivals begin in the evening after sunset, are celebrated through the day and on into the next evening. But Bosco thinks Easter begins in the evening with the… Continue Reading

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Alleluia! Christ is risen.

resurrection-icon

Alleluia! Christ is risen. Kua ara a Te Karaiti! Χριστóς α̉νέστη Christus resurrexit! Le Christ est ressuscité. Christus is opgestaan! Хрїстóсъ воскрéсе! more Easter greetings and more image source

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Sacred Triduum

Wordle of Sacred Triduum rites

The Triduum – the most sacred time in the church’s year… The time encompassing the death and resurrection of Christ… Holy Thursday to Easter Day… These days are one liturgy of three interlocking rites… The Liturgy of Maundy Thursday The Liturgy of Good Friday The Great Vigil of Easter The Eucharist on Thursday evening, in… Continue Reading

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