Download or read book The Three Day Pascha written by Mother Melania (Salem) and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-11 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holy Friday, Holy Saturday, and Holy Pascha are days of wonder and excitement for Orthodox children. The services engage everyone in the saving events of our Lord's Passion, Death, and Resurrection through the rituals we see, thehymns we hear, and the things we touch, kiss, taste, and smell. The Three-Day Pascha Series, now presented as one book, unites the Three Days through poetry and painting, expressing the single mystery of the Passover of Christ, and of us in Him, from death to life and from earth to heaven. Mother Melania's poetry and Khouria Bonnie Gillis's artwork, will remind children of what they have seen and done in church on each of these days and will invite them to think about and enter into the wonder of those days on their own level.
Download or read book Heaven Meets Earth written by John Skinas and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-25 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enhance your family's celebration of the Great Feasts of the Orthodox Church with this beautifully designed book. Written for all ages and illustrated with icons and more, the book brings alive each of the Twelve Great Feasts (plus Pascha, the Feast of Feasts) with hymns, traditions, Old and New Testament scriptures, explanations of the festal icon, and quotes from the Fathers. A wonderful companion as we journey through the liturgical calendar year after year, deepening our faith one feast at a time.
Download or read book A Journey through the Three Days written by Donna M. Eschenauer and published by LiturgyTrainingPublications. This book was released on 2019 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This resource provides a spiritual journey through the Three Days of the Sacred Paschal Triduum. Each chapter reflects on the Triduum from a unique perspective and includes questions for discussion as an opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of the sacred mysteries of the Catholic faith. It illustrates the Triduum as the highest form of worship, ritually enacting human life and its set of relationships with God and each other. Donna Eschenauer clarifies and develops a theology of the Paschal Mystery as revealed through the rites of the Triduum, ultimately offering a foundation from which to understand all Catholic liturgy and to uncover its power to form Christian disciples.
Download or read book The Three Day Pascha written by Mother Melania and published by . This book was released on 2020-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journey with Christ through His Three-Day Pascha (Pesach/Passover) from the Cross, to the Tomb, to the Resurrection!
Download or read book Pilgrimage to Pascha written by Steven J. Belonick and published by Ancient Faith Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unpretentious little book of meditations based on Scripture, ancient hymns, and writings from Church Fathers will nourish the souls of reflective seekers during the forty-day period of Great Lent. Authors of each meditation have delved deeply into the sins and shortcomings of their own hearts, enabling readers to share in a collective human experience-from darkness to light, from despair to hope, and from isolation to commonality in the body of Christ-as they move steadily toward our Lord's Resurrection. The first edition of this book (titled A Journey through Great Lent, edited and authored by Archpriest Steven John Belonick, with coauthors Michele Constable and Michael Soroka), was published by Light & Life Publishing in 1998.
Download or read book Beautiful Pascha written by and published by . This book was released on 2022-02 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautiful Pascha is a 64-page coloring book for young children, aged 5-12. From the empty tomb to the moments of joy that happen during the paschal season, children will expand their sensibility to beauty and continue their recognition of meaningful symbols, elements, and motifs of the Church while working through this book. Each page has a perforated edge for easy removal, and thick paper for the best coloring results. May our children be blessed as they color and create! Christ is Risen!
Download or read book Traditional Christian Ethics written by David W. T. Brattston and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional Christian Ethics features two exhaustive alphabetical lists of affirmative commandments and prohibitions from the earliest Christian ethics, as found in writers before the mass apostasy of 249-251 AD. The affirmatives, or positives, list consists of what Christians are/were commanded or encouraged to do. The other list is of negatives or prohibitions, i.e. what Christians are/were discouraged from doing, similarly arranged. The source material for the work encompasses far more than the ten-volume Ante-Nicene Fathers edited by Roberts and Donaldson. It also draws from all writings of the period: Christian, Jewish, and pagan, available in English or French translation, plus a few Latin translations. Some translations have been published only in scholarly journals, and some only in the twenty-first century. Volumes Two and Three form a single exhaustive alphabetical list of affirmative commandments or precepts, including mental attitudes, i.e. what Christian ethics commanded or encouraged according to writers on Christian ethics before 250 AD. Using earlier drafts of this set of books, Dr. Brattstons articles and booklets synthesizing early and contemporary Christianity have been published by a wide variety of denominations and ministries in every major English-speaking country. He hopes readers will use them as a starting-point for writing articles, papers, and sermons of their own.
Download or read book Three Great Days written by Jeremy Helmes and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the summit of the church's liturgical year, the Paschal Triduum requires the energy, time, and talents of many people within the parish community. In Three Great Days, Jeremy Helmes draws on rubrics, liturgical theology, the church's tradition, and plenty of lived experience to offer a sound guide to planning and preparing. He draws attention to rituals requiring special attention and helps you determine liturgical roles and responsibilities. He also offers templates, worksheets, planning forms, and other ready-to-use resources that any parish can use to make their liturgical preparation and evaluation easier and more effective. Whether it's your first time preparing these liturgies, you're looking for fresh ideas, or you just want to make sure you're covering everything, this book will help your parish make this year's Triduum three truly great days.
Download or read book The Three Day Feast written by Gail Ramshaw and published by Augsburg Fortress. This book was released on 2004-12-13 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent decades have witnessed the revival of the ancient liturgies of the Three Days—Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and the Easter Vigil. In this book Ramshaw gives a little history and a lot of suggestions about how these services can enrich the worship life of your entire assembly. The Worship Matters Studies Series examines key worship issues through studies by pastors, musicians, and lay people from throughout the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Features include: Informal and insightful writing for all readers Study questions at the end of every chapter Examines vital issues in weekly worship Helps leaders and congregants understand and experience worship more richly
Download or read book The Twelve Great Feasts for Children Great and Holy Friday written by Sister Elayne and published by . This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great and Holy Friday (or Good Friday) is the ultimate expression of the unspeakable love and humility of God. Here, in the depths of seeming defeat, God's glory--His humble, self-sacrificing love--is clearly seen. In harmony with this, the Church's Good Friday services are deeply solemn, yet never gloomy--beneath all the sorrow is a current of joy. Pascha is coming!
Download or read book The Antenicene Pascha written by Karl Gerlach and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with "spiritual" interpretation and anti-Judaic polemic to secure the Pesach institution narrative (Ex 12) for Christian proclamation, major centers of Asia Minor and Syria, then Upper Egypt and the West, develop distinct rhetorical structures that load first the day, then the date of Pascha, with theological meaning. The emergence of the four-gospel canon at the end of the second century enriches, but does not supplant, a dialogue between Christian rituals and the scriptures inherited from Judaism. The Antenicene Pascha takes a fresh approach to the scattered literary remains of the earliest paschal feast by acknowledging them for what they are: relics of heated disputes about ritual boundaries that had elevated the Pascha, an observance with no explicite reference in first century literature, to an icon of unity and orthodoxy at the Council of Nicaea. Just as these disputes repeat familiar patterns of establishing Christian identity, much modern scholarship employs hermeneutical categories derived from other conflicts (Great Schism, Reformation) that often obscure, rather than reveal, the history of the paschal celebration. This book will be of value not only to students of the liturgy, but also to those interested in the history of biblical hermeneutics, the canon, and the roots of Christian anti-Judaism.
Download or read book The Winter Pascha written by Thomas Hopko and published by SPCK Publishing. This book was released on 1984 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When the winter begins to make way into the Northern World, the Church of Christ begins to celebrate a 'splendid three-day Pascha.'" Thus Father Thomas Hopko begins the first of forty meditations for the season of Advent, Christmas and Epiphany, ending with the feast of the Meeting of the Lord in the Temple on the fortieth day after Christ's birth. In the style of his popular book for the paschal fasting season, The Lenten Spring, the author again draws on the biblical readings and liturgical hymns and verses of the season to illumine the way for believers to follow the Church's days of preparation and celebration for the Coming of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, in human flesh. Many references are made to the writings of the saints and Church Fathers, as well as to contemporary Christian teachers and spiritual guides. All those who love the Lord's Coming will find comfort and strength, as well as enlightenment and instruction, for having passed through the Winter Pascha with this book as their companion. Book jacket.
Download or read book Three Days and Three Nights written by William L. Banks and published by Infinity Publishing. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Songs for the Fast and Pascha written by St Ephrem St Ephrem The Syrian and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the writers of the Syriac Christian tradition, none is as renowned as St. Ephrem of Nisibis (ca. 307?373), known to much of the later Christian world simply as "the Syrian." The great majority of Ephrem's works are poetry, with the madr??? ("teaching songs") especially prominent. This volume presents English translations of four complete madr??? cycles of Ephrem: On the Fast, On the Unleavened Bread, On the Crucifixion, and On the Resurrection. These collections include some of the most liturgically oriented songs in Ephrem's corpus, and, as such, provide a window into the celebration of Lent and Easter in the Syriac-speaking churches of northern Mesopotamia in the fourth century. Even more significantly, they represent some of the oldest surviving poetry composed for these liturgical seasons in the entire Christian tradition. Not only are the liturgical occasions of the springtime months a source of colorful imagery in these texts, but Ephrem also employs traditional motifs of warm weather, spring rainstorms, and revived vegetation, which likely reflect Hellenistic literary influences. Like all of Ephrem's poetry, these songs express early Christian theology in language that is symbolic, terse, and vibrant. They are rich with biblical allusions and references, especially to the Exodus and Passion narratives. They also reveal a contested religious environment in which Ephrem strove to promote the Christian Pascha and Christian interpretations of Scripture over and against those of Jewish communities in the region, thus maintaining firm boundaries around the identity and practices of the churches.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Easter Celebrations Worldwide written by William D. Crump and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-02-22 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At Eastertime, the most important holiday in the Christian world, religious processions in many Latin American countries pass over ornate street "carpets" fashioned from colored sawdust, flowers and fruit. Children in Finland and Sweden dress as "Easter witches." In the Caribbean, those who swim on Good Friday risk bad luck. In the Philippines, some penitents volunteer to be crucified. In some European countries, Easter Monday is the day for dousing women with water. With 240 entries, this book explores these and scores of other unusual and sometimes bizarre international Holy Week customs, both sacred and secular, from pilgrimages to Jerusalem to classic seasonal films and television specials.
Download or read book John the Theologian and his Paschal Gospel written by John Behr and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study brings three different kinds of readers of the Gospel of John together with the theological goal of understanding what is meant by Incarnation and how it relates to Pascha, the Passion of Christ, how this is conceived of as revelation, and how we speak of it. The first group of readers are the Christian writers from the early centuries, some of whom (such as Irenaeus of Lyons) stood in direct continuity, through Polycarp of Smyrna, with John himself. In exploring these writers, John Behr offers a glimpse of the figure of John and the celebration of Pascha, which held to have started with him. The second group of readers are modern scriptural scholars, from whom we learn of the apocalyptic dimensions of John's Gospel and the way in which it presents the life of Christ in terms of the Temple and its feasts. With Christ's own body, finally erected on the Cross, being the true Temple in an offering of love rather than a sacrifice for sin. An offering in which Jesus becomes the flesh he offers for consumption, the bread which descends from heaven, so that 'incarnation' is not an event now in the past, but the embodiment of God in those who follow Christ in the present. The third reader is Michel Henry, a French Phenomenologist, whose reading of John opens up further surprising dimensions of this Gospel, which yet align with those uncovered in the first parts of this work. This thought-provoking work brings these threads together to reflect on the nature and task of Christian theology.
Download or read book The Twelve Great Feasts for Children Pascha the Feast of Feasts written by Sister Elayne and published by . This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pascha itself is the day of sheer joy. Life has blossomed forth from the tomb, creation is made new, the doors of the Kingdom are opened wide. So, the Resurrection is the core of the Christian Life. Only because Christ is risen can we forgive one another, be healed of all our diseases of soul and body, and rise to the life God intends for us--His own life, of which we can partake because Christ has fully partaken of our own.
