Why isn't Holy Thursday on Passover?

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Maybe this is a silly question…but with all of the talk about the “blood moons,” I know that Passover was yesterday. However, we celebrate the Last Supper on “Holy Thursday,” which isn’t for a few more days. Why don’t we celebrate on Passover? 🤷
 
Because the Catholic liturgical calendar is arranged in a manner that reflects the events of the Pascal Mystery-- the Passion, Death, and Resurrection – and the events of the Last Supper took place on Thursday evening before the Passion on Good Friday and the Resurrection on Pasca, Easter Sunday.

The day of the week of the current year’s Jewish Passover-- which is celebrating entirely different events-- is not relevant to the Pascal Mystery.
 
1ke said:
Because the Catholic liturgical calendar is arranged in a manner that reflects the events of the Pascal Mystery-- the Passion, Death, and Resurrection – and the events of the Last Supper took place on Thursday evening before the Passion on Good Friday and the Resurrection on Pasca, Easter Sunday.

The day of the week of the current year’s Jewish Passover-- which is celebrating entirely different events-- is not relevant to the Pascal Mystery.
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1ke said:
The day of the week of the current year’s Jewish Passover-- which is celebrating entirely different events-- is not relevant to the Pascal Mystery.
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I agree that the calendared dates are “off,” but are you saying that there is no correlation between Moses leading the Jews out of physical bondage and Jesus, who led mankind out of spritual bondage?

Are you saying that there is no Old Testament prefigurement and are you denying that during the Last Supper, Jesus predicts his slaughter as the ultimate Passover sacrifice, the sacrificial lamb?

The Jews have kept their Passover, but it has much to do with the Paschal Mystery.

OP, please see the about.com article by N.S Gill titled ’ Dating Easter: Passover vs Easter Dates’ located here: ancienthistory.about.com/cs/godsreligion/a/aa040200.htm

She explains, “The answer is complicated, rooted in two millennia of history, and based partly on the difficulties of calculating dates according to the Jewish calendar, and partly on the desire to forge a new and separate Christian identity.” It is a good article and not overly long or complicated.

For other resources, check out Jimmy Akin, CA Senior Apologist’s Blog, which also addresses your question, here: jimmyakin.com/was-the-last-supper-a-passover-meal

If you’re up to it, peek at the Wiki article
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Supper
and scroll down to the heading “Time and Place.”
 
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Maybe this is a silly question…but with all of the talk about the “blood moons,” I know that Passover was yesterday. However, we celebrate the Last Supper on “Holy Thursday,” which isn’t for a few more days. Why don’t we celebrate on Passover? 🤷
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The circular letter of the emperor Constantine to the churches about the Council of Nicea, of course, touched on the paschal question and indicated the solution arrived at: [49]Christian Pascha must be celebrated on the same day by everyone; and for the calculation of the date, no reference should be made to the Jews. Such would be humiliating and moreover it is possible for them to have two Passovers in one single year. [We have seen what this assertion signified.] Consequently, the churches must conform to the practice followed by Rome, Africa, Italy, Egypt, Spain, Gaul, Britain, Libya, Greece, Asia, Pontus, and Cilicia.
oca.org/holy-synod/statements/archbishop-peter/concerning-the-date-of-pascha-and-the-1st-ecumenical-council
 
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