Christos Voskrese 2013

Christos Voskrese 2013
Father John Ciurpita assisted by Danny Shegda blesses the baskets for Easter 2013 outside Saints Peter and Paul Ukrainian Catholic Church on Penn Street in Clifton Heights, Pa.

Christos voskrese, which means Christ has Risen, is the Easter greeting in Church Slavonic which brings the response Voistinu voskrese or Indeed, He has risen.

Easter, of course, celebrates the Resurrection of the Lord Jesus and the salvation of Man.
The date for Easter is the Sunday following the first full moon after the spring equinox, which is always reckoned, regardless of astronomical observations, to be March 31 as per the Western churches that use the Gregorian calendar, so Easter always falls between March 22 and April 25.
The dating for Easter correlates with the means the Jews once used to set the date for Passover, which correlates with Scripture since Scripture indicates that the Crucifixion of the Lord occurred as the lambs were being slaughtered for the celebration of that holiday.
In fact, in most Western languages the name for the day is a cognate of the Pesach which is the Hebrew name for Passover. In Latin it would be Pascha so Paschal lamb would be Passover lamb.
In English and German, the word comes from Eostre month, which was basically April, and which the pagans who spoke Germanic languages had named for the goddess Eostre much as our own March and April are named for the Greek god and goddess Mars and Aphrodite, respectively.
In Slavic, the holiday is called “Great Night” (Velikonoce in Slovak) or “Great Day” (Velikden in Ukrainian).
There are some caveats regarding the date. The Eastern churches that use the Julian calendar set the equinox  at April 3, and, of course, the spring equinox is based on that of the Northern Hemisphere.
So, Christos Voskrese 2013.

Omnibit Of The Day

A baked ham has graced traditional Easter tables in America for centuries. The tradition of ham served at Easter dates back to the 1600s. the colonists got the  idea from their Native American neighbors. Every years the Native Americans welcomed spring with a planting festival that included the practice of smoking mearts, especially venison. The colonists were fascinated with the process and decided to try it on the hogs they had raised. They salted, smoked and stored the meat through the winter until it was perfectly cured and ready for the table in the spring, just in time for
Easter.

— William Lawrence Sr.

Cryptowit

By William W. Lawrence Sr

Rwgxhidh Kdhzgtht

Answer to yesterday’s puzzle:Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.
Ludwig van Beethoven