[Artemisia] Happy Passover!

Mon Apr 21 17:35:47 CDT 2008

The Eastern Orthodox, Catholic Church, and Jews all use a different 
calendar.  The two churches use solar calendars, the Jews use a lunar 
calendar that cycles over 19 years.  7 of those 19 years are leap years, 
with an extra month of Av.  (There are 235 ((12 X 19) + 7)  new moons in the 
19 years, not 228 (12 X 19).)  This makes it seem like the Jewish Holy and 
Festival days are moving around in relation to the solar calendars.  From 
our perspective, our Holy and Festival days are ALWAYS on the same day of 
the year!!

By special edict, Easter for the Catholic Church may never coincide with 
Passover.  If it does, the Catholic Church will adjust Easter to be on 
another Sunday.  This is because The Last Supper was on Erev Pesach (the 
first night of Passover), and the Church wanted to separate themselves from 
Judaism.  The Eastern Church has no such edict, so it is possible for their 
Easter to be during Passover.  As for any relationship between all of this 
and the Pope's visit, that is dubious...

Ryryd

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dawn Tavares" <dtavares1 at hotmail.com>
To: "Kingdom of Artemisia mailing list" <artemisia at lists.gallowglass.org>
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 2:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Artemisia] Happy Passover!

> The Lady Esther wished:
>> A happy Passover to all the Jewish persons and personas!
> Hmmm. A news program mentioned that this weekend began the Holy Week 
> rituals for the Eastern Orthodox church, while the Roman Catholics 
> celebrated that nearly three weeks ago. And the pope concluded his visit 
> week-long to New York just yesterday....interesting.
>
>
> Aurora de Portugal
> comparative religion dabbler
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