To the saints, waiting for the soon Return of
our Lord Jesus!
Greetings fr/germany
1) ‘Christian’ Feast Days
Sometimes we do look to some ‘Christian’
Feast Days… hoping the Lord will do a Great Work…
For instance: ‘Easter’… Pentcost
…’Christmas’ – But: do we ‘realize’ that those days are
celebrated often at different ‘Christian dates’???
….Remember: there is still a ‘Eastern
(Orthodox)’ and ‘Western Church’ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East%E2%80%93West_Schism
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2) Easter in the Western and Eastern
(Orthodox) Churches
Since the 16th century, there have been
differences in the calculation of Easter between the
Western and Eastern Churches. The Roman Catholic Church
since 1583 has been using 21 March under the Gregorian
calendar to calculate the date of Easter, while the
Eastern Orthodox continued and continue to use 21 March
under the Julian Calendar. The Catholic and Protestant
denominations thus use an ecclesiastical full moon that
occurs four to five days earlier than the eastern one. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computus
‘Easter’ 2013: Western Churches: March 31 |
Eastern (Orthodox) Churches: May 5!
Would you please ponder this: Why should our
Lord do a ‘Great Work’ just on March 31, when ‘Easter’ is
celebrated …for example in USA, parts of Europe, etc. ???
What about our ‘brothers, sisters’ in Christ in the
Orthodox Church? This year on May 5 they do celebrate
Easter – the Resurrection
of Christ!
3) The Resurrection
of Christ is the central event in the liturgical year of
the Orthodox Church
This is amazing!!! :
The Resurrection
of Christ is the central event in the
liturgical year of the Orthodox Church and is understood
in literal terms as a real historical event. Jesus
Christ, the Son of God, was crucified and died,
descended into Hades, rescued all the souls held there
through sin; and then, because Hades could not restrain
the infinite God, rose from
the dead, thus saving the human race.
Through these events, Christ released us from the bonds
of Hades and then came back to the living as both man
and God. According to Orthodox tradition, each human
being may partake of this immortality, which would have
been impossible without the Resurrection;
it is the main promise held out by God in the New
Testament.
Every holy day of the Orthodox liturgical
year relates to the Resurrection
directly or indirectly. Every Sunday is dedicated to
celebrating the Resurrection
and the triune God. In the liturgical commemorations of
the Passion of Christ during Holy Week there are
frequent allusions to the ultimate victory at its
completion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church#Resurrection_of_Christ
"Christ
is Risen!" The response is "Truly,
He is risen!" (or "Indeed, He is risen!")
http://orthodoxwiki.org/Paschal_greeting
4) The Year 2013
…I still believe that 2013 is a ‘special’
year…
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/march2013/friedrichw314-2.htm
Thanks to Marilyn http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/apr2013/marilyna45-1.htm
| http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/apr2013/marilyna42.htm
| http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/jan2013/marilyna117.htm
Nando http://twelvebooks.wordpress.com/2013/04/02/discussion-of-the-year-of-perfect-order-the-apocalypse-etc-april-2-2013/
And thanks to others writing also about May 5
= Orthodox Easter!
Well, I do not know if May 5, is also
‘Ascension Day’… … there seem to be some different ways to
count ‘Omer’
5) Counting ‘Omer’
… there seem to be some different ways to
count ‘Omer’… (Moses prayed in Psalms 90: Teach us to
number our days…)
Is May 5, the 40th day of Omer?
By the way, here are some links in reference
to ‘Omer’
http://www.hebrew4christians.com/Holidays/Spring_Holidays/Sefirat_HaOmer/Ascension/ascension.html
http://www.triumphpro.com/sefirat-ha-omer.htm
http://triumphpro.info/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/omer-and-pentecost-awesome-secret.pdf
The 42nd Day of the Omer is Rainbow Day http://opensiddur.org/2012/05/%D7%99%D7%95%D7%9D-%D7%A7%D7%A9%D7%AA-%D7%9E%D7%B4%D7%91-%D7%91%D7%A2%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%A8-the-42nd-day-of-the-omer-is-rainbow-day/
6) May 5, 2013 …5/5
Orthodox Easter - The Resurrection of Christ is
the central event in the liturgical year of the
Orthodox Church – this year is on May 5 !
May 5 …5/5 … 5 means Grace …doesn’t
…5/5 reminds me also to John 5,5 …
Joh 5:5 And a certain man
was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.
According to some websites May 5 is the Omer
Day 38… depending on starting the first biblical month …when
the new moon was sighted in Jerusalem March 13.
On Wednesday March 13, 2013 the new moon
was
sighted from Israel. The moon was …first
sighted: *from Jerusalem…
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/karaite_korner_news/message/614
7) Is …John 5, 5 …?
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Joh 5:5
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And a certain man was there, which
had an infirmity thirty and eight years.
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Joh 5:6
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When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that
he had been now a long time in that case,
he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?
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Joh 5:7
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The impotent man answered him, Sir, I
have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me
into the pool: but while I am coming, another
steppeth down before me.
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Joh 5:8
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Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up
thy bed, and walk.
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Joh 5:9
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And immediately the man was made
whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the
same day was the sabbath.
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Is …John 5, 5 … a pattern of a “Resurrection” …a pattern
of the Healing of His Church… ???
Remember: Jesus prayed in John 17:
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Joh 17:21
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That they all may be one; as thou,
Father, art in me, and I in thee, that
they also may be one in us: that the world may
believe that thou hast sent me.
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Joh 17:22
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And the glory which thou gavest me I
have given them; that they may be one, even as we
are one:
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Joh 17:23
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I in them, and thou in me, that they
may be made perfect in one; and that the world may
know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them,
as thou hast loved me.
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8) May 5, 2013 in Jerusalem !!!
The pattern: As the New Moon
‘has to be sighted …from
Jerusalem …Israel… the Holy Land’… this will mark
the beginning of the Month…
Easter – The Resurrection
of Jesus Christ this year …in Jerusalem! Is celebrated on
May 5! Starting on Saturday (Sabbath) May 4… http://theorthodoxchurch.info/blog/news/2013/03/the-holy-light-of-easter-in-jerusalem/
But ! This year is unique
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not only The Orthodox Church...
Also – The Latin!!! Patriarchate of
Jerusalem…(Catholics) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ad
experimentum … simultaneously… together…
Easter 2013 in the Churches of the Holy
Land
On Monday, October 15, 2012, the directive
of the Assembly of Catholic Ordinaries of the Holy Land
(AOCTS) was published, in
regard to the celebration of Easter, according to the
Julian calendar. The documents states that in
two years, all Latin and Eastern Rite Catholics of the
diocese of the Holy Land will adopt the Julian calendar
(followed by the Orthodox), after the preparation of the
final decree and its approval by the Holy See. The
directive leaves to the Bishops of the various Catholic
Churches the freedom to choose whether to start the
experience in 2013 or begin in 2015.
….The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, in
the person of the Patriarch His Beatitude Fouad Twal,
has invited all priests of the Diocese of the Holy Land
(i.e., Palestine, Jordan, Israel and Cyprus) to adopt
the Orthodox calendar.
Therefore, Easter will be celebrated May 5, 2013,
…As we read in the Catechism of the
Catholic Church, “Because of different methods of
calculating the 14th day of the month of Nisan, the date
of Easter in the Western and Eastern Churches is not
always the same. For this reason, the
Churches are currently seeking an agreement in order
once again to celebrate the day of the Lord’s Resurrection on a
common date(Cf. CCC 1170). http://www.custodia.org/default.asp?id=779&id_n=21978
http://en.lpj.org/2012/10/23/latin-patriarchate-will-celebrate-easter-2013-according-to-the-julian-calendar/
2013 Catholics
and Orthodox Will in Holy Land Will Celebrate Easter
Simultaneously -- Soon in the Whole World?
(Jerusalem) In 2013 Catholics of the
Holy Land will celebrate Easter together with
the Orthodox on May 5th and not on March 31st. as in the
rest of the whole world. In Jerusalem and the
other Holy places Easter will be celebrated according to
the Julian calendar as the Latin Patriarchate of
Jerusalem reveals.
The Holy See has allowed the various rites
the freedom to celebrate with the Gregorian or the
Julian calendar. The Catholics Bishops of the Holy
Land have thus concluded, in order to strengthen the
Christian unity in places, where the son of God
was born on earth, lived and died on the cross, to
follow the Julian Calendar which the Orthodox Christians
also use.
….The Ruling is Valid for 2013 ad
experimentum
The decree will be issued ad experimentum only for
the year of 2013. In 2014 in any case, the dates
for Easter fall on the 20th of April and without any
help, together on the same day. Til the year 2015
the Latin Patriarchate and the Holy See will meet for a
final ruling. The Catholic Bishops of the Holy Land are
prepared to give their agreement to a lasting adoption
of the Julian Calendar and have expressed the wish that
Rome may grant canonical approval.
http://eponymousflower.blogspot.de/2012/10/2013-catholics-and-orthodox-will-in.html
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1Th 4:16
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For the Lord himself shall descend
from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the
archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ
shall rise first:
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1Th 4:17
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Then we which are alive and
remain shall be caught up together with them in
the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so
shall we ever be with the Lord.
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1Th 4:18
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Wherefore comfort one another with
these words.
Maranatha, Come Lord Jesus!
P.S. RE 5/5
… 5 = Grace: Joh 1:16 And of his
fulness have all we received, and grace for
grace.
… 2013
…the year of that grace … :
1Pe 1:13 Wherefore
gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope
to the end for the grace that is to
be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus
Christ;
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