ceebeegee: (yellow rose)
ceebeegee ([personal profile] ceebeegee) wrote2005-03-23 09:11 am

Palm Sunday & Passover

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.

[identity profile] tenner.livejournal.com 2005-03-23 07:08 pm (UTC)(link)
The Christian calendar is solar, primarily due to the fact that Julius Caesar decided that it should be so back in 46 BC. Since all modern Christian denominations are derived from the "original" Roman Catholic church, it stuck.

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.