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By: Living-Deliberately.com » What Felt Like My First Real Pascha

Living-Deliberately.com » What Felt Like My First Real Pascha — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:57:41 +0000

[…] wasn’t, technically, of course. A year ago we were chrismated on Lazarus Saturday and had our first Pascha here in Florida, as it was also the same week as Easter, while we visited family. It was freezing […]

By: queenofthehill

queenofthehill — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 22:38:51 +0000

Kyra’s comments are interesting to me — in my faith, we don’t celebrate Easter because it pre-dated Christ and was in honor of a fertility goddess (thus the obscure bunny connection: http://altreligion.about.com/cs/alchemy/a/mpreviss.htm). Instead, we observe Passover and take the bread and wine and participate in footwashing, as Christ did on the eve of his death. I guess that is similar to your “Pascha”.

Neat!

By: Kyra

Kyra — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 03:13:58 +0000

Hi Tia! Welcome back…another thing about Pascha…We typically do not refer to Easter because it was a ritual that celebrated a Pagan goddess…it is even referred to in the Bible by one of the Pagan emperors.

However, Pascha means Passover and refers to our eternally passing from death to life and from earth to heaven….

As to communion on the go…back in my non-denominational days we travelled to a festival that was rather like a Christian Woodstock…their communion for 100,000? A grape and an oyster cracker….I shudder to think back to those days.

Christ is Risen!

By: C&C

C&C — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 00:17:27 +0000

Very interesting blog posting as well as comments. All gave cause for examination and study. I would highly recommend the reading of a book titled “The Two Babylons” by Alexander Hislop — a book which examines church traditions, their origins, and where they stand biblically. As for communion — which should be available for all who are a part of the Body of Christ — it definitely should be a time to reflect on Christ’s death and why He came to die in our place and not something taken lightly.

He is Risen Indeed !!!

By: Mimi

Mimi — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:45:43 +0000

Wonderful reflections - thinking about the dichotomy between Pascha and Western Easter.

Christ is Risen!

By: bannergranny

bannergranny — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 14:16:33 +0000

I too have done some research on how communion is done in different denominations and also how different denominations treat this doctrinally. While I found it disturbing how this was done at FBC, I know beyond a doubt that the one who initiated this as part of the program, did not do it flipently but rather most likely did not think it through carefully enough….. I understand very well how these huge programs are put together in way too short of time, always trying to make it the most realistic and full of the whole story in less than 2 hours….and perhaps the pastor was caught off balance by it as well..( he had only just returned from a 10 day trip before the program)..many denominations practice “open communion” which would be offensive to other denominations where communion is such an intregal part of their worshipand doctrine. I am deeply soory for those in the family of God who have been so deeply offended by this. I would rather we practice “closed communion”, but this is old school I guess to many evangelical churches and may even become a thing of the past. There is such a huge contrast between the modern day church that is always trying new things and the churches that follow the same pattern of worship for centuries without changing anything. Both have their benefits, both have their drawbacks and it depends on where you are in your life journey to follow Jesus. Please do not mark FBC as having gone off the deep end….we make mistakes just like every one else. We must hold up each other in love, mercy and prayer and remember that we do serve the same Jesus and He extends His mercy and forgiveness to us in countless ways each day.

By: Tia

Tia — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 13:54:13 +0000

Beth~ by “familiar” I meant I longed for our parrish and the people I’d gone through lent with. We were at a church in Jax for the paschal service and while it had that “church universal” feel to it, we still felt very much on the outside just because we didn’t know anyone there. I love our priest and parrish and missed them very much. We are no longer catechumens now but still so new that we feel like we are constantly learning. It is not even fair to assess the church we visited in light of pascha; just like everywhere else it was full of attendees that only come at major feasts like christmas and easter as I’m sure our own parrish was as well. Only at home we’d have had marvelous godparents guiding us through uncertain times and we’d been more included in the celebration.

pascha and easter are the same thing but due to a difference in which calendar is used, they do not typically fall on the same weekend.

On the communion thing~ I looked up “pre-packaged communion elements” yesterday and there is a company that produces a product called “Remberances”. I knew this wasn’t an original idea to FBC Jax and that they had to have bought them from somewhere. I found lots of other stuff online about them too; one sight called them “rip and sips”. The whole idea is offensive to me on both an Orthodox and a protestant level…the Lord’s supper is NOT a theatrical prop and that only scratches the surface of what I think…

By: gina

gina — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 12:44:57 +0000

Another note on the communion to go- I can imagine it was quite the experience to relive the Lord’s supper though! A neat idea that just wasn’t thought through;-)

By: gina

gina — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 12:43:00 +0000

Man, I don’t like the way that communion sounds at FBC. Sometimes, I long for a bigger Baptist church, but this certainly makes me rethink that! No communion to go! Definately not the norm even there, I would assume.

By: dalimama

dalimama — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 04:21:06 +0000

Well, I’m still kind of stuck on the whole communion to go thing and would be surprised to find that even in a regular evangelical church… there are really now words.

I hope those kitties have their babies soon… maybe they ate so much because they are storing up?

I hope your cat sitter is the one who has the mail or maybe your post office? I hope you find it and find out whay your chicken coop was nailed shut… weird.

I’d love to hear exactly what a Pascha is as well but can look it up on wikipedia if you don’t get around to explaining it.

Thoughts about your business and book have been on my mind a lot recently and I’ll probably email you soon to tell you them at some point.

Glad your home safe!