Paschal

The lamb was called the paschal lamb, and was, after that, to be eaten every year, at about what is with us Easter-time, in commemoration of this event. ❋ Thomas L. Kinkead (N/A)

The Passover Festival was celebrated as follows: An unblemished male lamb a year old (called the paschal lamb) was to be selected by each family in Israel. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Consequently, since this month always began with that new moon of which the fourteenth day occurred on or next after the vernal equinox, Christ arose from the dead on Sunday, the seventeenth day of the so-called paschal moon. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

A recent Eucharistic Congress in Washington, D.C., called the paschal mystery a "Sacrifice of Enduring Love." ❋ Author Unknown (2010)

The choir thus hardly completed even with the greatest labour and diligence, the monks were resolved to enter on Easter Eve with the 'new fire,'"that is, the paschal candle which was lit on Easter Eve and burnt until Ascension Day. ❋ Hartley Withers (1908)

The Alleluia chant Pascha Nostrum is one of the most elaborate I've seen the books, a full three lines of notes that cover only five words: Pascha nostrum immolatus est Chistus, that is, Christ, our paschal lamb, has been sacrificed. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In the fourth century, when the primitive idea of the fifty days 'feast of the paschal time began to grow dim, Easter and Pentecost were given octaves. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As for the Last Supper, some of us see no reason for Jesus eating the paschal lamb because HE WAS THEPASCHAL LAMB - soon to be slaughtered on the hill of Calvary. by ❋ Unknown (2010)

We marked our doorposts with blood of the Korban Pesach (paschal lamb), we ate the lamb and had the first Passover seder. ❋ Unknown (2010)

There was a time when Christians knew that the paschal mystery of death and resurrection was the center of Christian faith. ❋ John Wilson (2010)

This claim we call the Incarnation — and celebrate at Christmas — can't be separated from "the paschal mystery of death and resurrection." ❋ John Wilson (2010)

On either the second Monday or Tuesday of Pascha, after a memorial service people bring blessed eggs to the cemetery and bring the joyous paschal greeting, “Christ has risen”, to their beloved departed see Radonitza. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The second floats around the timing of the paschal full moon. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The Hill of Slane overlooks the Castle and legend has it that this is the spot where St. Patrick lit his paschal fire around 432 AD. ❋ Unknown (2009)

There are no poems of youthful yearning and no “feminine” poems, although it is interesting that in one letter to her cousin dated 1850 she adds the names of the biblical foremothers when she says “May He who blessed our forebears, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel and Leah, bless the whole community of the Congregation of Israel, and may we merit to go up to offer paschal sacrifices upon the altar.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

And it's perhaps an appropriate conclusion for this subject in this season to say that of course this is quite simply a reminder that the heart of all our liturgical activity is, and should always be, paschal. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Another great resource is The Liturgical Year by Dom Gueranger who goes into the symbolism of the paschal candle and he bases it all on Scripture and the Fathers. ❋ Elena Maria Vidal (2009)

On the other hand, the tradition of the Gospel of St. John situates the death of the Lord at the very hour the paschal lambs were sacrificed on the day of Passover itself. ❋ Unknown (2009)

When the Israelites destroy Jericho, as described in Joshua, Rahab and her whole extended family indeed escape doom by waiting inside a house marked with a red thread, just as the Israelites who stayed in houses marked with the blood of the paschal lamb were spared the fate of the Egyptians. ❋ Unknown (2009)