Passover (Pesaho)

OT background: Unleavened bread and the lamb; Fulfillment of prophesy; Different approaches of synoptic and Johannine traditions, Establishment of Holy Qurbana, Washing of the feet to symbolize humility of Jesus; Betrayal by Judas; Jesus - the passover lamb; The old passover ends here; Establishment of the New Covenant;Deeper understanding through Scripture, Icons, and Liturgical prayers/hymns of the importance of the Feast

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Scripture

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Liturgical Resources

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Holy Qurbono

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Other Prayers

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Promion and Sedro

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Glory to that Lord of the feasts and the One who perfects the festivals, who went up for the feast to complete and to fulfill the mysteries of the Law, who told His disciples that ‘I earnestly desired to eat the Passover with You before I die, and I shall complete the old and fulfill the images, and transmit to You the new covenant in my blood so that I may be with You forever and I give You my holy body and precious blood as the pledge of the future life which will not grow old, and they shall be for You for the remission of debts and for the forgiveness of sins’.

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God of all, the Christ, the King of glory and the of all, the Lamb of God who came to take away the iniquity of the world, by His Own person (baqnumeh), and by His Grace, to be slain for the life of the world, by His compassion, to give Himself as a substitute on the cross for sinners, who by His love for humanity willed to lift up us out of the sacrifices of calves, oxen, lambs and baby animals, libations and the holocausts of the Law. You told Your disciples: Go and prepare every thing for us for the feast, for I have earnestly desired to eat Passover today with you. With the man who carries a jar of water, go where he enters, and say to the house owner that our teacher and Lord says: Today evening He is going to keep the Passover with you. Simeon and John went and as You had told them, they saw the Upper-room prepared, belonging to Your friend whom You raised from tomb. They prepared everything according to Your commandment. According to the Law, (You) finished the sup-

per with Your disciples. Then You wanted to teach them by deed and word the best way of exaltation which is perfect humility. You girded Your loins with a towel and while sitting You told them: ‘Thus do mutually with love and learn humility of mind from me’. As soon as the Supper was finished, You took bread in Your holy hands and blessed it with thanksgiving and You gave (it) to them and said: This is the mystery which is being sacrificed for the entire world and this is my body; Take eat from it, for the remission of debts of every one who believes in me. Likewise, You blessed the cup and gave to them and said: This is my blood of the New Covenant. Take drink of it all of You for the forgiveness of sins of everyone who believes in me. Thus make the memory of my death, until I come again. After having entrusted them to the Father and You revealed to them about the betrayal of the rebellious, and about the renouncing by the head of the disciples, and about (their) flight, as it is written. You demonstrated that You have put an end to the old things and have begun the New Testament which grants eternal and immortal and imperishable life. O new and lordly feast, O amazing and ineffable mystery, O ineffable greatness, O unlimited love for humanity, O heavenly Lamb who ate the lamb of law, eaten in secret, O Great day of the Unleavened bread in which the mystery of our redemption was perfected, O mystical Upper-room in which one year old lamb was eaten, in which the Living Lamb of God was eaten, who by His sacrifice, takes away the sin of the world.

Today the bread of life from heaven was mystically entrusted to us in bread and wine, type of Melchizedek

the just high priest. Today let all of us celebrate the feast of purification and the feast of atonement, not with old leaven of evil and bitterness, but with the leaven of purity and holiness. Today let us celebrate the holy and lordly Passover, the departure from oldness to newness, and from mortality to immortality, from tyranny of slavery to the lordly freedom, from the lamb among the sheep to the Lamb of divinity.

Today we have a spiritual passage from faithlessness to faith, from error to truth. Today we have found the true life which does not grow old. Today from the house of Levi the knife was brought down (nheth) — which slain the dumb animals - by the rational and bloodless sacrifice which was offered in the Upper room. Today the sprinkling of blood and the dropping of ashes were withheld from the temple of Zion by the rational and bloodless sacrifice of the Lamb, who by His mystery, was pouring forth all blood.

Therefore we beseech You, Christ our God, who like the dead, divided Your body and blood among us, and as the Living ate and drank form it. We know that You alone was Living and dead; killed and the giver of life. Hold us worthy now for he life-giving reception of Your holy body and blood. By it, may we be delivered from the destroyer; lest he may enter and destroy the first-borns of our souls: pure and sinless thoughts regarding Your passion and life-giving death. Hold us worthy to eat it, having been girded our loins with chastity, and wearing the sandals of peace on our feet, and supported by the rod of Your victorious cross. May we receive it, without having any doubt in our mind, but with true and pure faith, having been baked (mtawi) in the fire of love, seasoned with the salt of truth. Hold us worthy, O Lord, to eat You with newness everyday, devoid of all oldness and drink Your newly in Your kingdom. There may we offer You heavenly and spotless rams and innocent and undefiled lambs and pure and immaculate drink offerings, pure and spotless doves and turtle doves. Here, and there in the unending world, may we celebrate a joyful Passover and rejoice and exult in You. We and our departed ones, as well as all the faithful departed who have taken rest in You, will offer up glory with joy and thanksgiving with cheerfulness and exultation with gladness to You and to Your Father whom You have reconciled by the blood which You have shed for us, and to Your Holy Spirit who is consubstantial to You.

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