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The years in which #Easter is on March 31:
1979
1991
2002
2013
2024
2035
2046
2057
2068
(Western Catholic/Protestant liturgical calendar.)
In the Christian #LiturgicalYear, we're now got a a woman giving birth. Everyone, and all of our ancestors, made it through some such event.
#JackSpong in the video, from a naturalist (non-supernatural), historical (there was a Jesus) view, looks at how this woman was presented in the New Testament writings.
One of Spong's ideas is that some stories of Jesus were developed later to make a liturgical year.
John Shelby Spong explains how the 4th Gospel creates a symbol from the presence of Christ's mother. This is the fourth lecture of a five lecture series. Thi...
#Shevat (also #Shvat) /ʃəˈvat (Hebrew & English)/ = 5th month of the Jewish #CivilYear, and 11th month of the #liturgicalYear. The word is borrowed from an Akkadian word meaning "strike," probably in reference to seasonal heavy rain in that region at that time of year (January-February in the #GregorianCalendar)
Tu B' Shvat = "15 in Shvat" [15th of Shvat], the New Year of the Trees. Also called Rosh Hashanah La'ilanot (= "head-of the-year for-trees", i.e. New Year For Trees) ...
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Yom Saint #Valentine Ha'Kadosh = day [of] Saint Valentine the-holy [(St.) Valentine's Day]
#Av /av/ = the 11th #month of the #civilYear and 5th month of the #liturgicalYear in the #HebrewCalendar. Corresponds to July/August in the #GregorianCalendar. Borrowed from the Akkadian word “abum” meaning “fire month.”
#tu = 15 (more in next toot)
b' (also be) /bə/ (Hebrew) = prepositional noun prefix roughly equivalent to "in", "at", and "with"
B'Av (bə'ʔav) = in [month of] Av [i.e. "of Av"]
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