A look at Easter/Pascha
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- čas přidán 31. 05. 2024
- Why is Orthodox Easter on a different day? What does 'pascha' mean? Why are there rabbits? This video is an introduction to some of the answers, but more can be found through the channel!
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As a lifelong and very involved Evangelicial who is now Orthodox, I found Pascha along with Holy Week to be the most meaningful experience of my life. So thankful our kids led us to Orthodoxy.
Glory to God for all things!
Amen. Pray that I may lead my parents to Holy Orthodoxy as well
@@cjschweisthal3830 I am praying!
Funny story, when we were inquiring into Orthodoxy we thought it'd be great to visit a Holy Week service. We picked Holy Monday and I asked a coworker who was Orthodox if we should wear anything special. We really had no idea what to expect. He said not really, it was a "pretty laid back" service. My work is pretty unpredictable so we couldn't make it to Holy Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday service. We showed up to Holy Thursday thinking was going to be casual, grabbed a service book like we noticed everyone else doing and picked a pew.........with 8 year old son in toe. They closed the doors and then blocked the doors with velvet ropes clearly indicating the service was about to start......buckle up! I started to thumb thru the Holy Week Service book. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday I noticed were very short. Then I got to Holy Thursday in the book and the service seemingly never ended, I have an energetic 8 year old and they've locked us in.......with velvet ropes! I had a minor panic attack. We made it about 30 minutes and left the first chance we go before our son got fussy. We survived the experience and entered the Church later that year!
Love that story. Thanks for sharing!
Woah!!! What a beginning! Thank you for sharing!
@@Patristix Brother in Christ, Christ Is Risen. ☦️🇷🇸
Even the English churches, when celebrating Easter, will still say, "Paschal lamb," etc., in the liturgy. A blessed Easter to all those celebrating on whichever date you use, Christ is Risen!
Fun fact, the Amish didn’t get the memo either. ;) We celebrate Pascha with the Amish, which they call “Old Easter.”
May God Bless everyone during this Great Lent, and may God bless us all on our path to Salvation. ☦️🤗
Thank you Patristix for your basic Orthodoxy lessons, new converts find this very helpful. God be praised!
Peace and blessings.
Well this was unexpected and welcome.
So i guess when i ask God to guide me true and teach me about orthodoxy if thats where he wants me, your channel pops up to teach me about great lent and things.
Awsome and thanks!
Im an Episcopalian, and I loved the Orthodox Easter service! It was quite beautiful! :)
Thanks for the video! It is hard to believe we have already started our way to Pascha 😊 Pre-Sanctified Liturgy is tomorrow (Wednesday), looking forward to it, and waiting for the Holy Week (Passion Week) and Pascha 😊
And when the onion peels were mentioned I laughed a lot 😂 so true! We are Orthodox, of course we have a bag with onion peels we collect from Pascha to Pascha 😂
It is an amazing time!
And yes, onions are part of Orthodox kitchens for sure
YT channel 'Illustrated bible' by Milos and Bojan sent me here. Lovely channel. Thank you for the workd you put into these videos' for people like my self whom have a strong interest in the Orthodox church.
Love your content. Please fix that piece of carpet in the corner.
1. Pascha occurs at the same time as Jewish Passover which is called Pasach
2. The onion skins must be from yellow onions not red
3. We say Xristos Anesti and Alithos Anesti/ o Kirios when we play with the red eggs.
4. I think the Russians made the tradition of painting the eggs different colours
5. I love the Patristix videos!
6. Hey
All eggs should be painted red but rarely anyone does that.. We say Hristos Vaskrese - Vaistinu Vaskrese (Serb)
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@@r.fantom Hristos Vaskrese!
Some: Easter
Almost everyone else: Pascha
Bulgarians: Greatday (we even have the saying that not every day is Greatday, meaning good things don't get repeated so frequently)
Belarussian have the same word as Bulgarians - "Вялікдзень" or "Vialikdzień") We have two alphabets as well) But we also have the word Pascha and Resurrection)
@@andreybeliy1884 We do sometimes use Resurrection as well (Възкресение, transliterated 'Vazkresenie'), but it's fairly rare. I haven't heard Pascha being used ever in regular speech. Only very rarely in theological discussion, but even then it is usually avoided, as laypeople don't understand it.
Well us danes call easter påske whixh is quite close to pascha.
Yes! It is the same word!
Thank you, as always. I found this video not too long after i had sent a friend a text about this very subject.
Will include in the list of those to whom i will forward this.
Thank you for the story of St. Mary Magdalene and the red egg. I never tire of hearing about it..💝📿💝
it should be noted that Bedes mention of a goddess name Eostre is found nowhere else. a goddess by that name does not appear in any other place. there was a month called "Eostremonth". however, "easter" which is derived from that month, simply means "towards the east" so passover is called easter in english becuase the tomb was found empty "early in the morning" and the sun rises in the east, AND Christ will return from the east. is has no connection to a pagan goddess,
This is possible yes, though the vague and possible implications of a goddess named Eostre exist in other places as well as Bede's writing. We actually cover more on that in our video here: czcams.com/video/OMcgcPr-03A/video.htmlsi=pyGf4UQ-DB383HqF
FUN FACT: Some Japanese Christians celebrate Easter as "Pasuha", from the Greek term, to celebrate the rebirth of Jesus.
Orthodox here, I am eastern-rite, but still use 'Easter', 'Christmas', 'Candlemas', 'Whitsun', etc.
I don't use the terms exclusively, and reading the room, I would use the appropriate term, but personally I consecrate the names of the feasts as known by the English, to the truth of Christ as revealed by the Orthodox Church.
"Reading the room..." I like that expression- very concise and precise. I must try and remember to add it to my vocabulary- when called for. Please let me not forget!
Well put! And words like Candlemas are just lovely in any case
The term Pascha is a Hellenised form of the hebrew word Pessach.
The Jews are celebrating as a nation their freedom from oppression in Egypt but we Orthodox, all the nations that adopted Orthodox Christianity we are celebrating another liberation.
Hellenes, Serbs, Russians, Romanians and all these other people from various nations around the world don’t celebrate the passing through the Red Sea.
We are celebrating the passing from Death to the Eternal life!
That’s why I believe the term Pascha is more meaningful for us!
In Hellas🇬🇷 we are paining the eggs red by using the skins of red onions plus beetroot! We are booking them together to achieve a more red colour!
Hi! My priest recommend your channel!
Wonderful...I like your comment...warning the service can be overwhelming...I found this to be so for my general experience and others didn't seem to understand so I tend to keep that to myself...so thank -you...I think it's the first time I have heard an Orthodox express this
Grew up not involved in the faith(thank God that changed) but always had fun with the eggs. Especially when we were little we used so many decorations and and along with the colours they looked incredible. Almost hard to eat them and certanly a bit of a nightmare to peel. I feel like there must have been a strategy to use stickers for structural rigidity that I never got when I was little. Thank you for the video. Also imo, the crown gem on this channel so far is I think the 3 wise kings video. All of them are amazing just like this one. Please make sure to post pictures of your eggs and show off your designs! God bless you guys!
3 kings episode was one of our favourites to make! Always loved them. Thanks for watching!
Hope youre doing well brother!
Thanks for the recipe for Pascha eggs! I will attempt it this year.
For a deeper colourt be prepared to cook them at a gentle simmer for a longer time than everyday boiled eggs. Also: not every egg will absorb the pigment as fully- so you can end up with a lovely diversity of hues! Easter egg dyes are available in all colours from Crimson to Yellow to Violet(!) to Blue(hmm) to Green(?) but I always prefer onion skin: from lightest to deepest Burnt Sienna. In Serbia before they are eaten, people perform an "egg knocking" ritual... but that's another story.
@@opabinnier 😊 that was kind of you!
@@opabinnierand of course, start with brown eggs for a deeper color..
Awesome, as always❤️❤️❤️✝️🙏
Thank you for watching!
Can you do a video on “life confession” in Orthodoxy? Or, on the topic of confession? Thanks!
Veligden is also used, it means Great Day.
Love your background music, who’s the artist?
Easter is Easter
Revelation 14:12
12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
If I could get some level of “certainty” (I know I’ll never be 100% certain, bare with me) I think I’d join the Orthodox Church.
I grew up in a secular household, became an evangelical Christian after addiction at 19.
Read too many books, and knowing so many sides to so many different topics makes it hard to place a line in the sand.
Pray for me? I’m not comfortable asking the saints to pray for me, but if that’s anyone’s thing that’s reading this, ask them for me just in case ;)
May God bless you! I would recommend visiting an Orthodox Church and chatting with the priest and community. Reading is great but Orthodoxy is best experienced in life
P.S this video introduces the saints concept and has more links in the description czcams.com/video/sCqsLV_ayIo/video.htmlsi=8_soM99X-qjhoJJQ
@@Patristix I actually met with a local priest (well, 2 of them since the first got relocated) 4 or so times and have been to vespers 3 times and a Divine Liturgy once. Asked them all my questions, but truthfully it feels like such a massive leap that would upend my life considering I work in ministry at an evangelical parachurch ministry.
I’ve been praying God would show me if the Orthodox Church is “home” for a year or so now. I know He’s faithful, so I guess it remains to be seen where I end up.
Love the videos, man. Thanks for all the work you put in on these.
May God bless your journey! When I converted to Orthodoxy after 20 years as a Protestant there were many things that felt incredibly strange: askings a Saint for prayer, kissing an icon, seeing Mary in a whole different light, etc.
But the more I understood why things are done the way they are, the more natural it felt to do them.
Give it time, there is no rush!
@@Michael-qs7szthe Truth, ultimate reality, has a way of doing that to our lives. I’d say that’s a clear sign of where you should be.
❤❤❤
could you please do the orgins of the word rapture and the meaning and how we got to what we believe the rapture will be in todays context i heard rapture had a different meaning before the 19th century .
This video (not ours) may help answer some questions: czcams.com/video/ao0ocjL88OU/video.html
Not every eastern orthodox church uses same calendar though. At least Estonia and Finland follow the gregorian calendar.
They’re the exceptions, not the rule.
All Eastern Orthodox use the same date for Pascha (which is mostly based on the lunar calendar), they may differ on feasts which use the solar calendar as there are different ones.
@@tfan2222 definitely so!
As a matter of fact, only four Churches stick to Julian calendar: Russian, Serbian, Georgian, and Jerusalem; others were more or less forcefully in the last century.
But all Orthodox Churches still use the same Paschalia (rule for calculating Pascha) though, which rule is based on Julian calendar; except in Finland; and I have not checked about Estonia.
I thought the eggs was because of the fast before Easter.
Greek orthodox priest marry. I went to go saint nicholas in squaw valley ca.
I’ll stick with Pascha 😬
Actually, not all the Orthodox churches follow the church or Julian calendar, which the early Christians followed.
For example, both Greeks and Romanians follow the Gregorian calendar, which was introduced by Catholics in 1582, when it comes to Christmas.
But when it comes to the celebration of Pascha, only the Orthodox Church of Finland seems to follow the Gregorian calendar - all others either follow the Julian calendar entirely or they use this "hybrid model" where Pascha and Pascha-related feasts are in accordance with the Julian calendar and everything else with the Gregorian calendar.
Greeks, Romanians and some others use New Julian calendar, not Gregorian. There was separate calculations from already existed calendar.
@@andreybeliy1884Valid point. But for all practical purposes so called New Julian calendar is identical to Gregorian for observable future; it's a fig leaf of a distinction.
Russian = Воскрес
Serbian = Ускрс, Васкрс
Church Slavonic (as I picked it up in Russia) : Воскресе. They hardly ever speak it in Russian.
Catholic “neighbors”? WHAT??!!
How about brothers and sisters? Perhaps I’m being too sensitive, but that is how I acknowledge those members of the Eastern Church.
I’d hope you’d use more ecumenical phrasing when referring to Catholics.
I enjoy your channel and perspective very much.
The historical perspective of your frame of reference has certainly deepened my knowledge about the faith.
Wishing you and all who help with your channel a Blessed Pascha!
1:22 the correct english word is Passover
Easter is literally the fulfillment of Passover. Pascha means Passover. I wouldn’t say it has zero connection to any Jewish holiday
This is 100% correct. The timing of Pascha though is separate from the Jewish timing of Pascha
What I heard in this video is based on people's understanding, and non is based on the Bible. The Bible talks about The Lord's Death was on the day of preparation of the Jews for the Passover. So, the truth is Resurrection Day, has to be on a Sunday. The date is unknown as the calendars have been changed. Therefore, it does not matter the date, based on this fact, it is my prayer that Christian leaders stop dividing Christians based on human factors. All Christians celebrate the Resurrection of Christ, it really does not matter when.
We might agree in part. The thing is, while it may "not matter" when Easter is, the point is that we celebrate it as a community. We don't want to just celebrate it when we feel like it but all together with our fellow believers. That was the point of the council's decision. How do we celebrate Jesus TOGETHER. Now the West changed the date, and today it is different for the Orthodox. But the Orthodox have only really interacted with this new (16th century) change for less than a hundred years.
Easter date is not about division but the opposite: unity.
For more on calculating Easter: czcams.com/video/5D8FgJS5uP0/video.htmlsi=UHyUlHTNuhApm9VU