the Catholic religion. My mother and grandmother raised me as a Catholic and I regularly attended Sunday church until I graduated from high school. I no longer attend church on a regular basis‚ but I do go to church on Christmas‚ Good Friday‚ and Easter Sunday. The food-related practice associated with the Catholic religion that I will discuss is not eating meat on Fridays during the Lent season and fasting during Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. Even though I do not attend church on a regular basis
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fast-forward ourselves and our thinking from His death to celebrating His resurrection on the following Sunday. Somehow the day in between‚ Holy Saturday‚ is often forgotten in this process. To many‚ Holy Saturday is just the day before Easter but as Cones puts it ‘there’s no Easter Sunday without Holy Saturday’ (Cones‚ 2006:50). In more recent times there has been a bit of a revival in thought over this day. There are people who are thinking about and reflecting upon the experience of Holy Saturday. They
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there are different types of festivals celebrated in Christianity. they are Christmas‚ palm Sunday‚ Easter‚ good Friday. Christmas is celebrated on the 25 of December and Christians celebrated it for the birth of Jesus the son of our father. palm Sunday is celebrated because Jesus had enter into Jerusalem. good Friday is celebrated for the death of Jesus. Easter is celebrated for the Crucifixion of Jesus.13 Maundy Thursday Christians remember this as the day of the Last Supper‚ when Jesus celebrated
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Like Easter‚ Ostara is another name for the spring Equionx which we celebrate on March 21st‚ but unlike easter which is on a diffferent day Ostara is celebrated in almost the same way. Though We live in different hemispheres there is a spring Equinox and in the northern part the Spring Equinox is around March 20th or th 21st but in the southern it is around September 23rd. Ostara is called Easter in the christian religion sadly they do not know the whole story behind it so lets get some insight to
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December on the Gregorian Calendar. This approximates the winter solstice‚ the point at which the days start growing longer‚ ie the sun (light) is returning. Fixing this date‚ however‚ meant allowing the other Holy Days to float. Easter is always on a Sunday. Easter can be any Sunday from March 23 to April 25. Its date is set to the Sunday that follows the first full moon after the spring equinox. Mardi Gras is always 47 days before this Sunday. (The 40 days of Lent plus 7 Sundays). Carnival
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The Poison Tree I was angry with my friend I told my wrath‚ my wrath did end I was angry with my foe I told it not‚ my wrath did grow and I watered it in fears Night and morning with my tears And I sunned it with smiles And with soft deceitful wiles And it grew both day and night Till it bore an apple bright And my foe beheld it shine And he knew that it was mine And into my garden stole When the night had veiled the pole In the morning glad
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Pentecost is 50 days after Easter and 10 days after the ascension of Jesus . On the day of the Pentecost the Holy Spirit descended on the disciple of Christ. The Pentecost festival is this year may 19th 2013. The Pentecost festival is all that the church has been talking about since the Passover. Pentecost means the fiftieth so that means that Pentecost is fifty days after the Passover and the resurrection of our Lord and God Jesus Christ ‚ Pentecost is 50 days after Easter and 10 days after the
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many twists or turns‚ it is like a wave rolling smoothing onto shore but then the end is like the crashing of the water on the sand. This simplistic nature is embodied by the chronological movement of the story from a day in summer to Good Friday to Easter Sunday. It is also embodied by the simplistic nature of the happenings of the story‚ a father’s ailing health and a daughter’s (Mrs Edwards) heartache at watching her father‚ her fathers is turned back at a nursing home on Good Friday because of colour
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of the year the Catholic religion are celebrating lent. This explains the purple cloak I described that the man‚ or as they call him “Father‚” was wearing. During Lent the people of the Catholic religion are not to eat meat on Fridays until after Easter. This does not explain the purple but I have come to recognize it as just a color to represent the days of lint. I also realize now that the reason the gifts aren’t already up with the Father on the desk is because it is part of the religion’s communion
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while then rains a lot on a row. Where I live we have lots of electricity and running water. Where Cesar lives there is not much electricity only about two light bulbs per house‚ unless you have the money to pay for more. Where I live we celebrate Easter like in Chichicastenango but we do not usually break egg shells on people’s heads. My goals are different because I would like to travel the world one day and he wants to be an electrician. I think our lifestyles are very different because of our
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