Pascha

[Grand_Duchess-Elizaveta]

How is the date for Pascha determined/calculated? And what does "Pascha" mean?

[tqpix]

Pascha

n 1: the Jewish feast of the Passover [syn: Pasch (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=pasch), Pascha (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=pascha)] 2: the Christian festival of Easter [syn: Pasch (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=pasch), Pascha (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=pascha)]

Source (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=00-database-info&db=wn): WordNet ® 2.0, © 2003 Princeton University

[SaintGeorge]

Pascha means "passover."

The date of Pascha is calculated according to Lunar phases, and must be after the Jewish passover.

[Michael the Iconographer]

Matrona says that when Pascha and Easter fall on the same day the feast should be called "Paskeaster"!

[Rilian]

Here's an article (http://www.uocc.ca/may1-editorial.html) that has some information about the Paschalion.

Also remember, if you're in a Slavic church to have Paska at Pascha.

[Oblio]

Also remember, if you're in a Slavic church to have Paska at Pascha.


:yum:

Paska instantly restores the Blood Cholestrol Count depleted by Great Lent :yum:

[Greg the byzantine]

Pascha comes from the the hebrew word pasach, which as mentioned before means passover. Easter is calculated as the first sunday after the vernal equinox, after the full moon, after passover. (The full moon is actually how passover is calculated so it's, really the first sunday after the vernal equinox, after passover)

[Wiffey]

1. "Greek Easter"
2. The Paschal lamb given as a sin offering for the Jewish people at Pesach (Passover)
3. The word that sustains us during Lent when we gag down our soy-milk and Boca-burgers
4. A reason to spend an entire week in church standing up in somber clothes and pantyhose that pinch
5. The act of falling upon a leg of lamb in a manner that would make a South Seas cannibal look like Emily Post...

[Rilian]

My Greek friend told me that when she was a kid her aunt used to put cheeseburgers in her pockets to take in to church to eat as soon as the fast was broken.

[Wiffey]

My Greek friend told me that when she was a kid her aunt used to put cheeseburgers in her pockets to take in to church to eat as soon as the fast was broken.

LOL!

[katherine2001]

I always celebrate Pascha at my priest's home parish (I usually go on either Thursday or Friday and stay there until Sunday afternoon), and people bring their grills to the Paschal liturgy and put them out on the patio. The minute the liturgy is over, the reader goes out and lights up the grills (of course, they are charcoal grills), so that as soon as Fr. is done blessing the baskets, he can get out there and start cooking. He also brings enough meat to make anyone that wants one a cheeseburger, and people also cook steaks and kielbasa on the grills.

[icxn]

In Greek Πάσχα also relates to the verb πάσχω which means suffer. Hence, through Christ's suffering we have passed over from death to life and from earth to heaven as the resurrectional hymn goes...

Resurrection Day! O peoples, let us brilliantly shine! * Pascha, the Lord's Pascha! * For Christ our God has out of death * passed us over into life, * and likewise from earth * to heaven, as we now sing * unto Him a triumphal hymn.

icxn

[prodromos]

English - Easter
German - Ostern
Greek - Πάσχα
Dutch - Pasen
French - Pâques
Italian - Pasqua
Spanish - Pascua
Bulgarian - Пасха
Turkish - Paskàlya
Albanian - Pashkë
Romanian - Paşte
Serbocroatian - Uskrs
Esperanto :D - Pasko

[Khaleas]

In Swedish - Påsk
In Finnish - Pääsiäinen

Hopefully those letters will come through :D

[rhyddid_rose]

To Life Immortal

When I saw the OP, I thought it was addressed to me, lol. Pascha is my family name.:cool:

I love Pascha. Being in church when it is dark and the priest lights the Pascha candle and gradually the church is filled with light. People sing Christos Aneste and it's awesome! We break the fast with those red eggs that turn your hand red too.

I wonder when does the fast begin and Pascha is this year.......I really need a calendar, lol!


Peace and Long Life
*** бабочка ***

[Mary of Bethany]

The full fast begins March 14th, and Pascha is May 1st. :wave:


Mary

[Rick of Wessex]

Portuguese - Páscoa ;)


English - Easter
German - Ostern
Greek - Πάσχα
Dutch - Pasen
French - Pâques
Italian - Pasqua
Spanish - Pascua
Bulgarian - Пасха
Turkish - Paskàlya
Albanian - Pashkë
Romanian - Paşte
Serbocroatian - Uskrs
Esperanto :D - Pasko

[Kripost]

Bulgarian - Пасха


Russian, Ukrainian, Belarussian, and other slavic languages using the Cyrillic alphabet have exactly the same spelling (as far as I know).

[Oblio]

But Pascha can't be right.

Don't you all know that the feast is a pagan celebration to honor Oester, or was that Ishtar ....

What do those in the East know anyway, after all, Christianity came from the West :doh:

[ExOrienteLux]

Having a bad day on GH, Oblio?

[Oblio]

Yes, a bad week as a matter of fact :(

Thanks for asking :)