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Pascha

Pascha

9.6
The Christian festival of Easter celebrated especially in Eastern churches
  • noun
  • /ˈpæʃə/
translation icon : Pascua
  • At Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral, many people attend the special services for Pascha each year.
  • Pascha, the Easter

Examples

  • The period of fasting and preparation mirrors the fast before Easter, or Pascha as we usually call it.

    Blog text (17)

  • In his book The Winter Pascha, Fr. Thomas Hopko notes that the services of the church intentionally draw worshippers to contemplate this connection.

    Blog text (17)

  • Consider the following passages from Melito's "On Pascha" and Byzantine hymns of the Passion and the Nativity: PREFORMATTED TABLE

    Academic text (2007)

  • Next Sunday they'll celebrate Pascha, the Orthodox Christian observance of Jesus' resurrection.

  • I was baptized during the celebrations of Pascha in 1998, marking an important moment in my faith.

Synonyms

Easter
vsPascha
7 1.0

A Christian holiday celebrating Jesus coming back to life

is the version focused on Eastern traditions rather than the general observance
Easter Day
vsPascha
1 1.0

The day when Christians celebrate that Jesus came back to life

is the festival as celebrated by Eastern Christians, not only the single day
Pasch
vsPascha
  • Archaic
9.9

A Christian festival that celebrates Jesus rising from the dead

is the Eastern Christian celebration form rather than the older broader usage

Surface Forms

Pascha singular
Paschas plural

Etymology

Pascha is also used for the Christian festival of Easter, especially in eastern churches. It comes from Hebrew Pesach 'to pass over', and because Jesus' death and rising happened during Passover, the same name came to mean Easter.