Posted on 04/11/2009 5:08:13 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
I’m on the road this weekend to attend a family Seder, which our family makes something of a movable feast . . .
By coincidence, Gail Collins’ NYT column, noting the coincidence of Easter and Passover this week, adds this:
“Americans with less religious inclinations can look forward to the upcoming Earth Day celebrations, when the president is planning to do something as yet unannounced, but undoubtedly special, and Arbor Day, when rumor has it that he will not just plant a tree, but personally reforest a large swath of the nation of Mali.”
Collins writes with tongue somewhat-in-cheek, but I also see an acknowledgement of a reality in what she says: for many, environmentalism has essentially become a religion, and Earth Day effectively a religious holiday. Yesterday’s pan-deists, who worshiped trees and brooks, have become members of various environmental groups doing much the same thing. People like Al Gore others, and perhaps the reforesting Obama, have become their latter day shamans.
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Easter and Passover on the same week is not a coincidence.
Coincidence? If I recall correctly, the coincidence of Passover and Easter is intentional. The Last Supper was a Passover seder.
Of course they are related, the Last Supper having been a Seder as I understand it, but because they work off different calendars they don’t always fall in the same week, if I’m not mistaken.
They always and intentionally fall in the same week. Easter is the first Sunday after the first full moon in spring, passover is always the week of the first full moon in spring as well.
You are correct. Once in a while, when Easter falls *very* early in the Western Christian calendar, Passover will be a month later. Eastern Christians always observe Easter at the same time as Passover.
(Indeed, you are *precisely* correct, since “coincidental” denotes “happening at the same time,” even if it can imply “happening at the same time for no particular reason.”)
I just learned this, that at a Seder they eat bread and drink the third cup of wine in memory of the lamb that was sacrificed for the blood they painted on the door jambs.
There is a very particular reason. The events of the Passover foreshadowed, and are symbolic of the main event that happened years later in Jerusalem when another lamb was slaughtered for us.
Yes, of course.
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