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The Paschal homily or sermon (also known in Greek as Hieratikon or as the Catechetical Homily) of St. John Chrysostom (died 407) is read aloud at Paschal matins, the service that begins Easter, in Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine Catholic churches. According to the tradition of the Church, no one sits during the reading of the Paschal homily. [1]
Easter, [nb 1] also called Pascha [nb 2] (Aramaic, Greek, Latin), Resurrection Sunday, or Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord, [nb 3] is a Christian festival and cultural holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, described in the New Testament as having occurred on the third day of his burial following his crucifixion by the Romans at Calvary c. 30 AD.
The first discourse (Matthew 5–7) is called the Sermon on the Mount and is one of the best known and most quoted parts of the New Testament. [6] It includes the Beatitudes, the Lord's Prayer and the Golden Rule. To most believers in Jesus, the Sermon on the Mount contains the central tenets of Christian discipleship. [6]
Even though there might not be hundreds of Easter movies to choose from, there are still a handful of good ones (both classic and newer films) to watch as a family during the Easter season.
The Sermon on the Mount by Carl Heinrich Bloch, Danish painter. In religious studies, homiletics (Ancient Greek: ὁμιλητικός [1] homilētikós, from homilos, "assembled crowd, throng" [2]) is the application of the general principles of rhetoric to the specific art of public preaching. [1]
Sermon 100: On Pleasing All Men - Romans 15:2; Sermon 101: The Duty of Constant Communion - Luke 22:19 (written for the use of Wesley's pupils in Oxford, 1733) Sermon 102: Of Former Times - Ecclesiastes 7:10; Sermon 103: What is Man? - Psalm 8:3-4; Sermon 104: On Attending Church Service - 1 Samuel 2:17; Sermon 105: On Conscience - 2 ...
Quartodecimanism (from the Vulgate Latin quarta decima in Leviticus 23:5, [1] meaning fourteenth) is the name given to the practice of commemorating the death of Christ on the day of Passover, the 14th of Nisan according to biblical dating, on whatever day of the week it occurs.
The Mote and the Beam is a parable of Jesus given in the Sermon on the Mount [1] in the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 7, verses 1 to 5. The discourse is fairly brief, and begins by warning his followers of the dangers of judging others, stating that they too would be judged by the same standard.