Holy Days 5775-5776/2013 Confession of St. Peter (Jan 18 Psalm 23), Conversion day of St. Paul (Jan. 25 Psalm 67), ,Tu B’Shvat (Festival of the Trees January 16), International Holocaust Remembrance Day (Jan. 27) , St. Valentine’s day and Purim Katan (February 14)
Purim Katan occurs in the Jewish calendar and is especially celebrated by the Karaite Jews who were founded in the Crimea Black Sea coast area and present-day Iraq area by Jews in the millennium before the last. Although St. Andrew, being a Christian who represents Jesus was not a Karaite, he did help bring Christianity to some of these region and probably agrees with many of the Karaite views about the importance of the written Torah over the Oral Law. Just this last week in February it was heartening to see the rebirth and re-emergence of celebration of Russian History and athletic excellence in the 2014 winter Olympics in the Black Sea Russian area of Sochi. Notice the 5 St. Andrew’s crosses which carry the divine light from the 1st to 2nd, the 3rd and 4th metaphysical levels of creation.
Some of these crosses contain the Buddhist ” 3 diamond meditation” see 2010 htpp://www.ourprayergroup.blogspot postings. See also the 2006 postings of spiritual ascension meditations in this blog. These crosses come from the masculine part of our divine self. The 5 feminine circles, some of which have a human heart inside, represent the infinite regenerative and repeating parts of this mediation on the Holy Spirit inside of the human heart.
You may also note that this day is called “Transfiguration Sunday” the sixth Sunday after Epiphany in the Revised Standard Vanderbilt Library lectionary we follow this year at:
http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/lections.php?year=B&season=Epiphany.
What is going on here? Are there two “Transfiguration Sundays” one in February aligned with Jewish Katan Purim and the Protestant Revised lectionary and one in August aligned with the Jewish New Year and the Catholic liturgy?
For those who want to meditate about this it is a deep teaching about how the metaphysics of the Biblical liturgy realizes itself in us throughout the year.
Purim (March 16), , Saint Benedict’s day (March 2), Ash Wednesday (March 5), Saint Gregory’s day (March 12), Saint Patrick’s day (March 17), Saint George’s day(March 23), Passover (April 14), Easter (April 20),St. Mark (April 25 Psalm 2), Holocaust Remembrance Day (April 27), Shavuot (June 5), Pentecost (June 8), St. Peter and St. Paul’s day (June 29 Psalms 66, 87,97,138), Independence Day U.S.A.,St. Mary Magalene (July 21 Psalms 30,42,116,149), St. James day (July 25, Psalms 7, 33,34), St. Ignatius Loyola’Saint Bernard’s day (August 20), Saint Barthomew’s (Nathaniel’s ) day (August 24 Psalms 15,67,86, 91), World Peace Day (September 21), Rosh Hashanah (Sept. 24), Yom Kippur (Oct. 3),Sukkos (Oct. 9), Shemini Atzeret (Oct. 16), Gabriel, Michael, Ariel, Raphael and All Angels day (Sept. 29),Saint James of Jerusalem day (Oct 23 Psalm 1), ), Saint Francis of Assisi’s day Oct. 4 , St. Luke (Oct 18 Psalm 103), All Souls/All Saints Day (Psalms 111,112,148,149,150), Veteran’s Day(Nov. 11) St. Martin’s day, Saint Margaret’s day (Nov. 16), Thanksgiving day November 24, Saint Andrew’s day (Psalms 19,24,96,100), Channukah (Dec. 16), St. Thomas’s day (Dec. 21 Psalms 23,27,121,126), Eighth day of Channukah which is Christmas this year,St. John’s day (Dec. 27 Psalm 92,97,98,145), Holy Innocent’s day (Dec. 28, Psalms 2,26,19,126), Day of
the Holy Name of Jesus (Dec. 31, Psalm 8)
[For Bible readings and Psalms that go with these Holy Days see the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer (both the two year daily office and the two year lectionary readings) or the three year revised common lectionary at http:\divinity.library.vanderbilt.edu/lectionary . The revised common lectionary was created for the occasions of common prayer and worship services among Protestants, Catholics and Jews. It has more readings from the Old Testament than the ordinary episcopal or catholic lectionary. Using these two or three year daily offices is an excellent way to keep track of an intention for reading most of the Bible in two years. The best translation of the Bible I have found is “The Amplified Bible” published by Zondervan. It has cross-references in the text to related passages and prophecies which make this translation even more of a “Tree of Life” than others.]
New Moons of Shevet (January 11), Adar I (February 1) , Adar II(Mar. 3), Nissan (April 11), Iyar (May 1) Sivan (May 30) , Tammuz (June 29), Av (July 28), Elul (August 27), Tishrei / Rosh Hashanah (September 25),Yom Kippur (October 3), Succot (Octt. 9). Shimini Atzeres (Oct. 16), ,Chesvan (October 25), Kislev (November 23),Tevet (December 23) (months of correct eating, laughter, speaking, thought, movement, seeing, hearing, action, feeling, smell, relaxation, judgement) tribes of Asher (Psalm 100 ), Naphtali (Psalm 98) Judah (Psalm 92),Issachar (Psalm 95), Zebulun (Psalm 96), Reuben (Psalm 90), Simeon, Gad (Psalm 94), Ephraim (Psalm 97), Menashah (Psalm 97) , Benjamin (Psalm 93), Dan (Psalm 99))
Area north of the Angel’s Landing rock formation.
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