Myth and Ritual in Christianity by Alan Watts

Author:Alan Watts [Watts, Alan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780807013755
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Published: 2019-10-13T20:09:07+00:00

C H A P T E R V

The Passion

I N the cycle of the Christian Y car we move very swiftly from the Birth of Christ to his Passion, Death, and Resurrection, for the great feasts and fasts of the calendar commemorate the mythological aspects of the life of Christ-his great, world …

saving actions rather than his teachings or miracles for the healing of individuals. However, the season of Christmas and Epiphany is separated from that of the Passion by the fast,.

time of Lcnt.1 The p urpose of Lent is not primarily to commemorate the forty … day fast of Christ in the wilderness which immediately followed his baptism; in the ancient Church Lcm was, above all things, the period of spiritual 1 Lcm is acwally divided from Epiphany by the so,called Pre-Lenten season, the three Sundays of Serwagcsima, Sexagesima, and Quinquagesima.

These names arc derived from the fact that the First Su nday in Lent was originally called Quadragesima- the fortieth day before Easter-and the three Sundays preceding take these names by analogy, and not because they are respectively the fiftieth, sixtieth, and seventieth days before Easter.

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