Definitions
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- noun Easter, the most important Christian religious feast
- noun Orthodox Christian church services during the week preceding Easter
- adjective pertaining to Easter. (e.g. in the Orthodox Christian church, Pascha week refers to the week preceding Easter)
Etymologies
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Sicut et nos pro eadem causa ante tempus nonnunquam parvulos baptizamus, cum tamen sit constitutum ab apostolicis patribus, ut vel in Pascha, vel in Pentecoste baptizemus.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Paul adds in that Easter hymn of the early church we call the Pascha Nostrum: Christ being raised from the dead can never die again; death has no more power over him.
Sermon for Low Sunday Fr Timothy Matkin 2005
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Paul adds in that Easter hymn of the early church we call the Pascha Nostrum: Christ being raised from the dead can never die again; death has no more power over him.
Archive 2005-04-01 Fr Timothy Matkin 2005
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Because every great feast was in some way a remembrance of the resurrection of Christ and was in consequence called Pascha, we find the names Pascha floridum, in French Pâques fleuries, in Spanish Pascua florida, and it was from this day of 1512 that our State of Florida received its name (Nilles, II, 205).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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"The Resurrection icon that we use for Easter Sunday, which is also called Pascha, shows Jesus pulling Adam and Eve out of hell, or Hades," Webb said.
News 2010
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And in Latin the celebration of the Resurrection is referred to as Pascha, based on the rendering into Latin of the Jewish word for Passover Pesach.
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Easter Sunday is this weekend, April 12th, and the Orthodox church's Easter Sunday (often called Pascha) is next Sunday, April 19th.
The Kitchn 2009
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The very feast itself puts us in mind of as much; it is the Pascha, that is, the Passover, not a coming back to the same land of Egypt, but a passing over to a better, the Land of Promise, whither 'Christ our Passover' is passed before us, and will in good time give us passage after Him.
Latest Articles 2009
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This is Holy Week in the ancient Orthodox churches of the East, which means that today is Good Friday and, just before midnight on Saturday, we will begin the lengthy and glorious rites of Pascha, which is called Easter in the West.
GetReligion 2009
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The very feast itself puts us in mind of as much; it is the Pascha, that is, the Passover, not a coming back to the same land of Egypt, but a passing over to a better, the Land of Promise, whither 'Christ our Passover' is passed before us, and will in good time give us passage after Him.
Latest Articles 2009
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