johnny
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A Good..Good Friday and a Nice Passover at Sundown for all..
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Good Friday and a Nice Passover everyone....
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mikeyank
Long time forumite
Thanks Johnny and the same to you and all who read the forum.A Good..Good Friday and a Nice Passover at Sundown for all..
I'm having Passover dinner tonight with the family and I wish all who celebrate a Happy Easter as well!!!
johnny
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Ha Ha mike.. Well Easter is a whole New thread....Thanks Johnny and the same to you and all who read the forum.
I'm having Passover dinner tonight with the family and I wish all who celebrate a Happy Easter as well!!!
peterh6308
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Happy good friday!!!
Beth
BSB Addict
Sending good thoughts out unto the universe.
Sending good thoughts out unto the universe.
I'm right there with you. Positive uplifting energy.
rafe59
Well-known Member
Hoping all are having a GREAT Good Friday !!!!
stowe1
Ye Olde Curmudgeon
A Happy and Blessed Pesach to mikeyank and all of our Jewish forumites and members of Broke Straight Boys
stowe1
Ye Olde Curmudgeon
I don't know that I would say happy Good Friday, but rather have a Blessed Good Friday.
I can remember when my kids were in grade school, one of them asked, "Daddy, why is it called Good Friday if Jesus was crucified on that day?" Try to boil the theological answers to that down to something understandable to a grade schooler. I said something to the effect that even though Jesus did die on that Friday, without it there would be no Easter Sunday and that is why it is called Good. Not my best work admittedly, but all the theological education by the Jesuits, and my seminary training did not prepare me to translate that level of theological thought into grade school-ese ! - lol!
I always find it quite meaningful when Passover starts at sundown on Good Friday - as it does today, just like it did on that first Good Friday. Jesus and his Apostles were Jews and the overwhelming number of his disciples were as well. They observed all the Jewish holidays and many of the rituals. So when I read the gospel accounts of especially the Triduum I just get something additional out of knowing this is how it was timed in 33 AD.
Any old Catholics out there - I mean from 65 yrs. on up? Remember that time up to the late 50's (that's when Pius 12th revised the Holy Week liturgy) when the Church held that Lent was over at Noon on Holy Saturday and the church bells would ring and fasting was over? I remember a classmate of mine asking one of our nuns why that was and she said, "That's when Jesus defeated Satan and rose from the dead" (as if they could know - lol) and he had the guts to then ask her, "Well what did He do from then until Easter Sunday morning when Mary and Peter and John found the tomb empty?" Well, Sr. Mary St. Regina thought that impertinent and he got a ruler across his knuckles! - oh for the good old days - lol !!!
I can remember when my kids were in grade school, one of them asked, "Daddy, why is it called Good Friday if Jesus was crucified on that day?" Try to boil the theological answers to that down to something understandable to a grade schooler. I said something to the effect that even though Jesus did die on that Friday, without it there would be no Easter Sunday and that is why it is called Good. Not my best work admittedly, but all the theological education by the Jesuits, and my seminary training did not prepare me to translate that level of theological thought into grade school-ese ! - lol!
I always find it quite meaningful when Passover starts at sundown on Good Friday - as it does today, just like it did on that first Good Friday. Jesus and his Apostles were Jews and the overwhelming number of his disciples were as well. They observed all the Jewish holidays and many of the rituals. So when I read the gospel accounts of especially the Triduum I just get something additional out of knowing this is how it was timed in 33 AD.
Any old Catholics out there - I mean from 65 yrs. on up? Remember that time up to the late 50's (that's when Pius 12th revised the Holy Week liturgy) when the Church held that Lent was over at Noon on Holy Saturday and the church bells would ring and fasting was over? I remember a classmate of mine asking one of our nuns why that was and she said, "That's when Jesus defeated Satan and rose from the dead" (as if they could know - lol) and he had the guts to then ask her, "Well what did He do from then until Easter Sunday morning when Mary and Peter and John found the tomb empty?" Well, Sr. Mary St. Regina thought that impertinent and he got a ruler across his knuckles! - oh for the good old days - lol !!!
mikeyank
Long time forumite
Thanks very much my good friend for your warm "Pesach" wishes, in fact I returned home a short while ago from a non traditional, but warm family seder.
And thanks for the info on the relationship on the calender between Easter and Passover. It's something I want to discuss further with you the next time we talk. Thank's so much for your warm wishes and thoughts, Mr. Stowe!!! For a "curmudgeon", you can be a pretty warm guy!!!
stowe1
Ye Olde Curmudgeon
Thanks very much my good friend for your warm "Pesach" wishes, in fact I returned home a short while ago from a non traditional, but warm family seder.
And thanks for the info on the relationship on the calender between Easter and Passover. It's something I want to discuss further with you the next time we talk. Thank's so much for your warm wishes and thoughts, Mr. Stowe!!! For a "curmudgeon", you can be a pretty warm guy!!!
You're more than welcome mikey. I'm sure your Seder, while perhaps different than in past years, was a meaningful one for you and yours.
Nobody else is supposed to know that - lol !!!
For a "curmudgeon", you can be a pretty warm guy!!!
Right?? LOL
Don't sabotage his street cred Mikey. Some of us have reputations to uphold.
joeychuck2
BSB Addict
Happy Passover and Happy Easter to everyone. We had an abbreviated but traditional Seder here last night. Even so it lasted 3 hrs. As a kid our family Seders went till 1 in the morning. They say the answer to "when do you begin preparation for Passover? " is the day after Passover. We always have a lot of preparation for the house. Even the supermarkets know that. They start an isle or 2 for Passover foods the beginning of February. Makes it easier buying a little each time you shop. You don't realize how expensive it is. As a kid my parents would buy everything all at once.
As a kid especially but even as an adult, I think I would dread all the very detailed housecleaning that go into the preparations for Passover. At 10-16 yrs old I'd be thinking, "Oh crap. Is it getting close the end of March already? Mom's gonna start asking me to do this, that and the other around the house." haha
I've always thought that "Good" Friday was quite the misnomer myself Stowe. haha
Good Friday services at church are more like a dark and gloomy service rather than any kind celebration that I would consider "Good". lol All the more to pile extra guilt on us as we're reminded what flawed human beings are capable of doing to someone who preached only Love. And then all the more also we're encouraged to put more money in the coffers...in the hopes that our own stains of human frailty and imperfection will be overlooked and forgiven in the grand scheme of eternity. lol
I much prefer to remember Christ in terms of the resurrection rather than the crucifixion. His and our lifetimes on earth are but a blip in the course of eternity. In my mind I took him off the cross a long time ago.
joeychuck2
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Jewish schools (yeshevias) they let the kids off the week before Passover to help their Moms
joninliverton
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Good Friday isn't so good anymore in the uk. Shops are open, gambling is accepted..
