Passover 2025
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This year we are planning to invite the SS class I teach weekly to our home for Passover. We are hoping to have about 25 people. I am pretty sure it will be the first time any of them will have participated in a Christian Passover celebration.
Since 2010, Diane and I have observed Passover every year either with the church I pastored or with relatives and friends in our home. We have followed the lunar calendar in calculating the date for Passover on Nisan 14, which can occur on any day of the week. This calculation means that there can be anywhere between 1-6 days between Passover and First-fruits (resurrection Sunday).
My intention in observing Passover has always been a reenactment of Jesus’ “Last Supper” with His disciples. Yet the ever-changing number of days between Passover and First-fruits tends to disrupt the flow of Passion week and Jesus’ time in the tomb. This will be especially problematic for Christians who are not familiar with the Biblical Feasts. In AD 30, Jesus observed the Passover on Thursday evening, was crucified on Friday, and arose early Sunday. So this year I am thinking about adjusting our Passover celebration so that we observe Passover on the first Thursday evening after Nisan 14, which this year would be the evening of 4-17, then observing First-fruits on 4-20 (which also happens to be “Easter” this year). The goal is to make Passover as meaningful as possible for newbies, leading up to the celebration of the resurrection.
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