Tag: Passover
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Shabbat shalom
Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the HOLY ONE your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm; therefore the HOLY ONE your God commanded you to keep the sabbath day. Deuteronomy 5:15
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First Night of Passover
The first night of Passover will never again coincide with the Thursday evening before the Sabbath before Christian Easter, or to put it another way, with Christians’ Maundy Thursday as narrated in the synoptic gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke. This is for historical and calendrical reasons, explained here. This year, however, the second night…
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Seventh Sunday in Easter
We talked about Passover, and its connections to the communion and covenant language in Mark, in class this morning. It comes as news to people, even when we’ve been around the Bible for a long time, which makes sense, because we don’t always get these connections discussed for us. In Exodus (chapter 12), at the…
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Good Friday
Today, the second day of the Triduum, Christians all over the world are remembering and ritually observing the event of Jesus’ passion. It’s “passion” in the sense of suffering, unto death, related to the Greek notion of pathos, rather than “passion” in the more contemporary sense of strong emotion or enthusiasm, as in “shopping is…
Matters of Interpretation 