Holy Week is the same in the eastern and western Church, but because eastern Christians use the Julian Calendar ... and burial of Jesus Christ. • Holy Saturday, the Sabbath on which Jesus ...

The earliest followers of Jesus saw ... the Jewish calendar, choosing to celebrate Easter separately from Passover. Sunday worship was enforced instead of the Jewish Sabbath.

Although he would not become famous for his Jewish work until some thirty years later, Oppenheim painted one of his most famous works, Return of a Jewish Volunteer from the Wars of Liberation to His F ...

since at the end of this section there is a new temporal marker (‘On a Sabbath…’ Luke 13.10) and a change in focus from the teaching of Jesus to his healing, and Luke 13.1–9 is clearly connected with ...

Re-lent: Canon Phillipa Lohmeyer-Collins preached at St Paul’s cathedral, Melbourne, on the “heart work” of Lent, which is the effort we owe in repentance. Lent, it strikes me as a person who attends ...

Following the Julian calendar, the Eastern Orthodox Easter will be on Sunday ... Some Gentile Christians began celebrating Easter on the nearest Sunday to the Passover since Jesus arose on a Sunday.

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might. This ...

It is ironic that Jesus and His disciples were harassed by the Pharisees over the Sabbath (John 5:18). Jesus spoke out against the Pharisee's merciless observance of the Sabbath (Matt 12:1-8 ...

Jesus Christ Superstar is notable in how it blurs genres. Billed as a "rock opera," but it also draws from musical theatre conventions. "Rock oratorio" might be the best label for the show ...