Old English Ēostre, which gave modern English'd Easter, is thought to derive from Proto-Germanic *austrōn meaning "dawn", itself a descendent of the Proto-Indo-European root *aus-, meaning "to shine" (modern English "east" also derives from this root).
Ēostre or Ostara is a Germanic goddess who, by way of the Germanic month bearing her name, is the namesake of the festival of Easter in some languages.
Ēostre is attested solely by Bede in his 8th-century work The Reckoning of Time, where Bede states that during Ēosturmōnaþ (the equivalent of April), pagan Anglo-Saxons had held feasts in Ēostre's honor, but that this tradition had died out by his time, replaced by the Christian Paschal month, a celebration of the resurrection of Jesus.
The songs of the Neocatechumenal Way are collected in a book named Resucitó (He rose from death). Most of them were composed by Francisco "Kiko" Argüello, others by Italian musicians or participants of the movement. They usually have a style influenced by Flamenco and Israeli music, and occasionally by Negro spirituals.
Based on the Liturgical Movement, specially the ideas of Romano Guardini and Rudolf Schwarz, that would influence the Second Vatican Council renew of liturgy, the Neocatechumenal Way began in 1964 as a community of Gipsies and marginalised poor, who gathered around Argüello , who had come to live among them with his Bible and guitar in the shanty town of 'Palomeras Altas' in Madrid.
The Second Vatican Council, fully the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, and informally known as Vatican II, addressed relations between the Catholic Church and the modern world.
Several changes resulted from the council, including the renewal of consecrated life with a revised charism, ecumenical efforts towards dialogue with other religions, and the universal call to holiness, which according to Pope Paul VI was "the most characteristic and ultimate purpose of the teachings of the Council".
The universal call to holiness is rooted in baptism, and the Paschal Mystery.
Paschal Mystery is one of the central concepts of Catholic faith relating to the history of salvation. Its main subject is the passion, death, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ – the work "God the Father sent his Son to accomplish on earth".
Catholic, Anglican and Orthodox Christian churches celebrate this mystery on Easter. It is recalled and celebrated also during every Eucharist, and especially on a Sunday, which is the Pascha of the week.
The very first known use of the term Paschal mystery (literally Mystery of the Pascha) was found in the homily of Melito of Sardis On the Pascha written between A.D. 160 and 170:
Understand, therefore, beloved,
how it is new and old,
eternal and temporary,
perishable and imperishable,
mortal and immortal, this mystery of the Pascha:
old as regards the force
but new as regards the Word;
temporary as regards the model,
eternal because of grace
perishable because of the slaughter of the sheep,
imperishable because of the life of the Lord;
mortal because of the burial in earth,
immortal because of the rising from the dead
— On the Pascha, 2-3
Garde fidèlement le visage de l’aube
ReplyDeletePour la traversée des ténèbres le passeur cherchera
dans tes yeux
l’obole de lumière.
—André Rochedy, Le chant de l'oiseleur
He hey there "truth ", I see that you're still the Prick that you were all those years ago.
DeleteGoes to show that once an asshole, always an asshole!
People hate the truth.
DeleteLuckily, the truth doesn’t care.
:-)
Hey, I am just fucking with you, Anon.
Why so serious? Just wondering.
Very cute ^_^
DeleteNot really sure now what it is about that quote from André Rochedy that would warrant such a reaction. 0_o ?
Anyway, looks like Anon might be barking at the wrong door: there is no "truth," here. Only mystery.
Or how was it that Ken Kesey once put it?
"The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer. They think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.”