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The Passion Play or Easter pageant is a dramatic presentation depicting the Passion of Jesus: his trial, suffering and death. The viewing of and participation in Passion Plays is a traditional part of Lent in several Christian denominations , particularly in the Catholic and Evangelical traditions; as such Passion Plays are often ecumenical ...
Easter will next occur as late again in 2038—a span of 95 years. Easter may also occur on April 25 of a leap year, i.e. the 116th day of the year, but this has never occurred since the Gregorian reforms were implemented. The first time Easter will occur on April 25 in a leap year will be in 3784.
The ultimate inspiration for the work which gave rise to the document was the Second Vatican Council.The immediate occasion was a National Pastoral Congress of 2,000 men and women convoked by the Bishops' Conference of England and Wales in Liverpool in 1980 to discuss a variety of potentially difficult issues.
Heaven Help Us (also known as Catholic Boys) is a 1985 American comedy-drama film directed by Michael Dinner.It stars Andrew McCarthy, Mary Stuart Masterson, Kevin Dillon, Malcolm Danare, Patrick Dempsey, in his film debut, and Stephen Geoffreys as a group of Brooklyn teenagers, with Jay Patterson, Wallace Shawn, John Heard, and Donald Sutherland as the teachers and administrators at the ...
1980 October 2 Gilbert Cates Rajadhi Raju: 1980 Unknown Unknown Bapu: Peter and Paul: 1981 April 12 Robert Day From a Far Country: Pope John Paul II: 1981 September 9 Krzysztof Zanussi: Chariots of Fire: 1981 October 9 Hugh Hudson The Hunchback of Notre Dame: 1982 February 4 Michael Tuchner, Alan Hume The Scarlet and the Black: 1983 February 2 ...
The following events happened in April 1980: ... An Easter service was allowed to be held for the 50 U.S ... and Roman Catholic priest Darrell Rupiper conducted ...
In 1951 on an experimental basis, [14] and then permanently in 1956, [15] Pope Pius XII introduced the Easter Vigil, a celebration of Easter night based on restoration of ancient forms. [16] He shifted the hour of the celebration to after sunset and restructured the service. [ 17 ]
The paschal or Easter-month is the first one in the year to have its fourteenth day (its formal full moon) on or after 21 March. Easter is the Sunday after its 14th day (or, saying the same thing, the Sunday within its third week). The paschal lunar month always begins on a date in the 29-day period from 8 March to 5 April inclusive.