Palm Sunday & Passover
Mar. 23rd, 2005 09:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I've been having some troubling, vivid dreams the last couple of nights.
Went to Mass this morning. It's that Holy Week thing again--since I missed Palm Sunday (Bad Clara!), I'm making up for it. Went Monday as well; am checking out the schedule for tomorrow and Friday, because I simply cannot sit through another 3+ hour Easter Vigil.
I thought that Passover and Holy Week were always the same week, but someone at work said that Passover is in two weeks. Hmm. That is odd--I wonder how our church decided when Easter is? I know it has something to do with the moons, but after all, the Last Supper was a seder.
Went to Mass this morning. It's that Holy Week thing again--since I missed Palm Sunday (Bad Clara!), I'm making up for it. Went Monday as well; am checking out the schedule for tomorrow and Friday, because I simply cannot sit through another 3+ hour Easter Vigil.
I thought that Passover and Holy Week were always the same week, but someone at work said that Passover is in two weeks. Hmm. That is odd--I wonder how our church decided when Easter is? I know it has something to do with the moons, but after all, the Last Supper was a seder.
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Date: 2005-03-23 02:32 pm (UTC)The Jewish calendar is a lunar calendar. Unlike the lunar calendar used in Islam, we have a leap month and leap days in order to keep the year in some sort of congruence with the seasons. The same system is not used in Islam so Ramadan (sp?) can fall during any season. I would venture a guess that the Christian religion also accomodates the lunar calendar in some way to hit holidays in accordance with seasons.
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Date: 2005-03-23 02:55 pm (UTC)I knew Islam used a lunar calendar but I thought they corrected after awhile--doesn't Ramadan have like a two-month window? I thought it was always around the end of the year.
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Date: 2005-03-23 07:08 pm (UTC)Easter is defined as the first Sunday after the first full moon after March 22. I think. I didn't Google this, so I'm not 100% sure, but it's something like that.
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Date: 2005-03-23 07:10 pm (UTC)And this is the 13th month right now, right?
I kind of almost pay attention during bar mitzvae.
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Date: 2005-03-23 02:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-03-23 03:03 pm (UTC)How long does Passover last?
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Date: 2005-03-23 03:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-03-23 03:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-03-23 06:29 pm (UTC)Pretty much any holiday that involves trees, elves, or woodland creatures comes from an ancient religion mostly forgotten now.