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    Passovers this year, 2024

    Weird.
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    Passovers this year, 2024

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    Anglo-Catholic Questions

    My parents are Anglo-Catholics. They differ from other Episcopalians only in how the liturgy of their parish church includes the traditional Latin minor propers (at least sometimes translated into English) and (at least in the past) some additional elements of Roman Catholic ceremonial. I have...
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    When did the official Church of England start?

    I will go with St. Augustine and St. Aidan too, though as others have pointed out there are threads of continuity with the Christianity of Roman Britain, such as devotion to St. Alban.
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    Good Friday - beliefs.

    Is it in the Mishnah?
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    Easter Origins Pagan?

    Amazing.
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    Good Friday - beliefs.

    Was the fast of the firstborn practiced in the first century? I know of no source documenting this.
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    Easter Origins Pagan?

    "The" pagan calendar? There was no single pagan calendar. Every nation had its own. Many of the Roman and Greek gods had fertility aspects but I know of no documented ritual in their honor involving eggs or hares. Can you provide documentation of pagan rituals involving eggs or hares?
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    teresa of ávila

    She never wrote: "Christ has no body now but yours", though the words are often attributed to her.
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    The Fascinating World of Eastern Orthodox Old Calendarists

    If the rotation of the earth slows and the period of its revolution stays the same in atomic clock seconds, then the number of mean solar days in a tropical year will decrease, not increase, until finally, it will be always day on one side of the earth and always night on the other side.
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    The Fascinating World of Eastern Orthodox Old Calendarists

    The controversy at Nicea was not about quartodecimanism. Instead, it was between two schools of Sunday observance: "Jewish calendarists" who wanted to set the Easter festival to the Sunday in the week of Unleavened Bread as calculated by the Jewish calendar, even if that meant that the...
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    The Fascinating World of Eastern Orthodox Old Calendarists

    A modification of the Rabbinic calendar has been proposed: Rectified Hebrew calendar. But I don't think it will be adopted anytime soon.
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    The Fascinating World of Eastern Orthodox Old Calendarists

    The particular protopaschites that Epiphanius discusses are the Audians (Panarion 6.70). John Chrysostom calls the protopaschites "those who wish to keep the first paschal fast". (Homily 3 Adversus Iudaeos.) The homily of 387 mentions them under the heading of "Novatians": For a mention of...