Easter Day moves around all over the calendar. And with it everything from Ash Wednesday to the Day of Pentecost. The dating of Easter arises from the complicated joining of two different calendar systems. These calendars might be illustrated by the early story of Cain and Abel. If you are an Abel type – hunting,
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I think most people, at least of the church-going variety, can get to Easter Monday being the day after Easter Day – April 13. And Easter Tuesday is April 14. But regularly I find, especially in the advertising world, that today, Saturday April 11 is called “Easter Saturday”. Ofcourse it is not. Easter Saturday is
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Read – reflect – respond (in prayer, silence, possibly a comment) Lectio Divina – sacred reading John 19:38-42 The Burial of Jesus 38 After these things, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, though a secret one because of his fear of the Jews, asked Pilate to let him take away the body
There is often quite a bit of confusion about how we count Lent and Easter so I have created this chart to help clarify how these seasons fit into the church year. This period forms a quarter of the year. The forty days of Lent is an approximate tenth or tithe of the year. The
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Read – reflect – respond (in prayer, silence, possibly a comment) Lectio Divina – sacred reading John 17:1-26 Jesus Prays for His Disciples 17After Jesus had spoken these words, he looked up to heaven and said, ‘Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son so that the Son may glorify you, 2since you have given
For those of you who follow facebook and Holy Week (HT Eugene Cho), here is If Jesus was on facebook PDF In this vein is Carl Elkin’s Haggadah on facebook.
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Read – reflect – respond (in prayer, silence, possibly a comment) Lectio Divina – sacred reading John 12:27-36 Jesus Speaks about His Death 27 ‘Now my soul is troubled. And what should I say-“Father, save me from this hour”? No, it is for this reason that I have come to this hour. 28Father, glorify your
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