Passover Celebration

[Poimen]

As of sundown Saturday Passover officially began.

In concert with believers under both covenants, following the apostolic example and witness of the early fathers, we at Christway will be gathering tomorrow (on Passover) to eat the Lord's bread and drink His cup.

We do this in remembrance of His atoning sacrificial death that freed us from slavery to sin and reconciled us to God the Father.

We do this in remembrance of the once sinful lives we lived that now are dead in Christ, buried with Him by faith.

We do this looking forward to the day of His resurrection come Sunday week.

We do this in the hope of His bodily return at the end of the age.

We do this in celebration of His triumph, and in thankfulness for the gift of eternal life he has bestowed upon us.

Remember, dear ones. Remember.


And, next year -- in the New Jerusalem!

[Full Quiver]

Speaking of and not to hijack but why was Easter so far ahead of Passover this year. I know that easter is actually a Pagan holiday that has been adopted by Christianity but why was it before Passover this year or is that normal?

[Brenda]

To me it did seem out of sorts.

Taking into the fact that Jesus ate the Last Passover before his death and ressurection.

[Poimen]

Speaking of and not to hijack but why was Easter so far ahead of Passover this year. I know that easter is actually a Pagan holiday that has been adopted by Christianity but why was it before Passover this year or is that normal?

Because when Easter was substituted for the Passover as the celebration of Christ's death, burial, and resurrection by the council of Nicea it was influenced by the solar pagan calendar, not the Jewish lunar calender and holy feasts.

And yes, that is common. About every other year or so Easter and Passover fall in the same month, and on the other years they do not.