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Passover Meal
Wednesday
March 31, 2010
6:30 - 9:00 pm
Burtenshaw Hall
(Sign Up Form at the bottom of the page)
Why
are we having a Passover Meal at St. Aidan's?
In our
January 3 Gospel, we read from Luke 2:41: "Every year
Jesus' parents went to Jerusalem for the festival of the
Passover." And in Luke 22:15 we read, "With fervent
desire I have desired to eat this Passover with you before I
suffer." Jesus chose one of the most sacred and the
oldest Jewish celebration, a celebration of redemption, to
establish His New Covenant.
What is a Passover Dinner?
In
scripture it is called the "Festival of Unleavened Bread,
Pesach or Passover. As the name implies, it is a
meal. It is a Jewish celebration that is over 3000
years old, and the Dinner is a Bible Study of the Book
of Exodus. It is a Celebration like our Thanksgiving,
where we share fellowship, share Love, share our scripture and
our redemption, as well as our abundance. It is a Ceremony,
with rules and regulations that come to us through custom and
convention. It is a deep spiritual experience to
participate in an ancient tradition that Jesus observed, and
connecting it to our Eucharist. While scholars disagree on
whether The Last Supper was actually a Passover Dinner,
they do agree that Jesus used the language, food and ritual of
the Passover to help His disciples understand the meaning of
His death in the context of their culture, and we will be
celebrating The Last Supper at the conclusion of the Seder.
Who is invited?
All are
invited, including children. Since the dinner and ceremony
will last from 6:30 to 9:00, there will be childcare for those
too young of an attention span for that amount of time.
Each family
attending the Seder Meal will be required to bring a dish that
their Host/Hostess assigns to them, either Kugle or salad
(recipes given).
Sign up will be closed on March 7 in order to get the tables
and food assignments arranged.
Questions?
Harmony
Kiser -
harmony.kiser@comcast.net - 770.205.7899
Lynda
Frederickson -
lynda.frederickson@cherokee.k12.ga.us
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