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To: A.A. Cunningham
Hmm . . . the Passover of Christ:

Lamb? Check.

Matzah? Check.

Wine? Check.

Enough of all three that the disciples were having trouble staying awake an hour later? Check.

I don't know what "passover" you think you're celebrating on Good Friday, but if it forgoes the above, it isn't the Passover that Messiah kept, calendrical quibbles aside.

Shalom.

9 posted on 02/25/2009 1:03:05 PM PST by Buggman (HebrewRoot.com - Baruch haBa b'Shem ADONAI!)
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To: Buggman

Indeed it isn’t, and the difference is far from being merely gastronomical. In fact, the early Church ensured that the Christian Pascha never coincides with the Jewish Passover for a reason: two different events are celebrated, the Passion of Christ and the Exodus from Egypt.


10 posted on 02/25/2009 1:11:52 PM PST by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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To: Buggman
Those things all prefigure the Mass, and are fulfilled in it. In the Mass, Christ the True Lamb of God is made present to us under the appearances of unleavened bread and wine.

You're criticizing us for giving up the symbol in favor of the reality to which the symbol pointed. It's sort of like complaining that marriage doesn't look like betrothal.

11 posted on 02/25/2009 1:53:05 PM PST by Campion
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