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Pascha — the Resurrection of the Lord

Feast · lord

  • Pascha (Roman Catholic Church)
  • Pascha (Eastern Orthodox Church)
  • Pascha (Coptic Orthodox Church)
  • Pascha (Syriac Orthodox Church)
  • Pascha (Armenian Apostolic Church)
  • Pascha (Church of the East)

The Feast of Feasts, which the Typikon does not number among the Twelve because it stands above them. Nicaea fixed the rule in 325 — the first Sunday after the first full moon on or after 21 March — but not the arithmetic, and the West's corrected reckoning and the East's uncorrected Alexandrian tables have drifted apart since 1582. The two coincide about three years in ten.

After The Typikon, ch. 50, the Pentecostarion — Pascha, «Во ст҃ꙋ́ю и҆ вели́кꙋю недѣ́лю па́схи», p. 916.

Commemorating

Where this is recorded

  • Roman Catholic Church — the day, after Universal Norms on the Liturgical Year and the Calendar
  • Eastern Orthodox Church — the day, after The Typikon, ch. 50, the Pentecostarion — Pascha, «Во ст҃ꙋ́ю и҆ вели́кꙋю недѣ́лю па́схи», p. 916; the rank, after A Manual of the Orthodox Church's Divine Services, p. 34, The Paschal Feast
  • Coptic Orthodox Church — the day, after The Coptic Synaxarium; the rank, after Kalendarium manuale utriusque ecclesiae orientalis et occidentalis (vol. II), II p. 693, «Festivitates majores numerantur septem» — Annuntiationis, Nativitatis, Baptismi, Olivarum, Resurrectionis, Ascensionis, Pentecostes
  • Syriac Orthodox Church — the day, after Liturgical Calendar of the Syriac Orthodox Church
  • Armenian Apostolic Church — the day, after OrthodoxWiki
  • Church of the East — the day, after The Ḥudra

Glosses

  • The Twelve Great Feasts, and the one that is not among them The Byzantine year is framed by twelve feasts — the Dodekaorton — running from the Nativity of the Theotokos on 8 September to her Dormition on 15 August, some fixed to a date and some moving with Pascha. They are not…
  • Thirteen days apart Constantinople and Moscow keep the Nativity on the same day and celebrate it a fortnight apart. Both say 25 December; one reads that off the Revised Julian calendar, which has agreed with the Gregorian since 1600 and…