Does the orthodox church think that easter is the most important festival in the christian year?
Please give some examples please! If not, what is the most important festival in the orthodox christian year?
Yes ALL the oldest Churches believe this, Catholic Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox.
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April 23 2009 06:54 am | Uncategorized
vronni on 23 Apr 2009 at 12:15 pm #
First of all, we call it Pascha (Greek for Passover), not Easter.
As to your question – Yes. It is called the Feast of feasts, Holy Day of holy days.
The Apostle Paul said, If Christ is not raised, our faith is in vain, and we are still in our sins. (1 Cor. 15:17)
for more information:
http://orthodoxwiki.org/Great_Feasts
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Pastor Art (((SFECU))) on 23 Apr 2009 at 12:48 pm #
Resurrection Day is the most important day in the year for all Bible believing Christians.
Obviously Resurrection Day would not have happened without Christmas and Good Wednesday.
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43+ years following a Jewish Carpenter & studying His Book!
Sage on 23 Apr 2009 at 1:02 pm #
Easter is set by the first full moon after the vernal equinox. This is the one day in the year when day and night are roughly equal!
It varies by more than a month over the years and so it simply cannot represent the date of anyone's death!!!
It is in fact a combination of several pagan festivals most notably the spring festival.
The name Easter comes from “Eastre” an Anglo-Saxon pagan goddess. Also the Norse goddess,Ostara who took her name from the Teutonic lunar goddess Eostre
Even the Chinese have the festival of Ching Ming where flowers and sweets are put on their ancestors graves!!
The egg and the rabbit are symbols of springtime and rebirth along with the custom of giving flowers etc!!
The Venerable Bede, an early Christian writer pointed out that the Christian church absorbed Pagan practices when it found the population unwilling to give up the festivals. Thus a lot of what Christians now see as Christians practices are in fact pagan!!!
Fun to watch the Christians worshiping a pagan festival though – makes it just like Christmas when they do the same thing!!!
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ranosonar on 23 Apr 2009 at 1:07 pm #
yes, and i second what vronni says
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Thomas on 23 Apr 2009 at 1:48 pm #
Yes ALL the oldest Churches believe this, Catholic Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox.
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Roman Issac on 23 Apr 2009 at 2:20 pm #
There is no most important festival in the Christian year to a true believer. But for orthodox, I have no idea.
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