The Crunchy Christian

🦶💦 The infamous Maundy Thursday? What does that word even mean?? No one knows, but it's provocative! I kid, I kid. Maundy comes from "mandatum", a Latin word that means "commandment", so I Maundy you to watch this next video! 🍷🥖

🌿 Blessed Holy Week, everyone! 🌿 what is Holy Week? When does it start? How do we participate in Christian worship during Holy Week? The short answer is: go to church 🤪, but I go into some more detail for those not familiar with liturgical worship/practices. This will be a series of videos, and we start with the start of Holy Week: Palm Sunday.

Yes, yes. Ashleigh cannot stop trying to make "Penitial Season" the noun into an adjective "penitentiary". Seems to be a glitch in her system, please forgive it 🙏.

The word "synoptic" means (1) affording a general view of a whole, (2) manifesting or characterized by comprehensiveness or breadth of view, (3) presenting or taking the same or common view
specifically, often capitalized : of or relating to the first three Gospels of the New Testament. (Merriam-Webster). Matthew, Mark, and Luke are the synoptic Gospels because they generally agree, and are told in a similar way, of the account of Jesus. John's account is told in a different style, and so the accounts don't always line up nicely to his.

I'll try and get this edited and re-uploaded as quickly as possible, but didn't want to miss Palm Sunday! Please ignore the screaming toddler... he's fine, just resisting bedtime 😅

🐰🥚Why don't we celebrate Easter closer to Jewish Passover? Why do some Orthodox churches celebrate Easter on a different date? We get SUPER crunchy in today's video! 🌒☀️

❗️Though the word "Easter" is a Germanic word used to indicate the celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, and would not have been used during the early church, I use it throughout the video to avoid confusion.

🔤 The original term for Easter would have been Pascha, which comes from the Hebrew word for the Passover, "Pesach". The Orthodox church still uses this term for Easter.

📖Information about Jewish months and Lunar Calendar: https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/3921740/jewish/The-Jewish-Month.htm
📖A great summary of the history of the date solidification: http://ww1.antiochian.org/date-of-pascha.html
📖Information about the Julian Calendar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_calendar
📖Information about the Gregorian Calendar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar

🎨Oh, what a cacophony of colors! If you've ever noticed that the vestments (special priest robes/clothes) or paraments (altar coverings) change at a liturgical church, you may be wondering why and when these changes happen. Today, it's all color talk! 🎨

✨New word: Adiaphoron (plural, adiaphora): a religious ceremonial or ritual observance that is held to be an affair of the individual conscience because it is neither forbidden nor enjoined by the scriptures, or a matter having no moral merit or demerit. It comes from the Greek word adiaphoros, which means "indifferent" (https://www.merriam-webster.com/)

📜I learned that there was a word (adiaphoron) used to describe what my mother and I talk about often in this article, which also has some great explanations on liturgical colors from a "Western" perspective: https://www.lcms.org/worship/church-year/colors-of-liturgical-seasons

📜I gleaned most of my Orthodox information (since I am not as well versed as I'd like to be in Orthodox traditions) from here: https://www.goarch.org/-/liturgical-colors-in-the-church and from here: chrome-extensio://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://stnicholasoca.org/files/Why-Do-We-Do-That---Liturgical-Colors.pdf

💡In my attempt to distinguish between Orthodox churches and "Western" churches, I sometimes call them "catholic" tradition. This is little "c" catholic, which means "universal", NOT big "C" Catholic which is used to references THE Catholic Church.

I CONFESS, this episode is longer than I intend most videos to be, but it's a bigger topic so it needed more time to go over.

**please ignore the screaming children in the background. They are just playing, and there is no help for them 😅**

💡Topics to remember:

Venial is a "slight and pardonable offense"

In Persona Christi means "in the person of Christ"

In Persona Ecclesiae means "in the person of the Church", in contrast to In Persona Christi, where the priest is the "stand-in" for Christ to the Church, In Persona Ecclesiae is where the priest is the "stand-in" for the Church to God. These are two different schools of theological thought, though sometimes, you may find people blend the two thoughts together based on circumstance.

📖Bible Verses Quoted/Mentioned:
1 Corinthians 11:27-29 (having a right heart when receiving the Eucharist)

Matthew 27:51, Mark 15:38, Luke 23:44-45 (account of the physical veil being torn)

Book of Hebrews (lots of mentioning of the spiritual veil)

Proverbs 16:24 (power of words being used for good)

John 20:23 (authority to pronounce absolution)

🧓 Church Father quotes:
https://www.churchfathers.org/confession

**I'd like to thank my mom for this video, for pointing out I FAIL and that the word is not Penitentiary, but Penitential Season*. I knew that, but for some reason, my squishy fat/meat brain decided to momentarily forget that. So now you can play a game and count how many I times I totally messed that up 🤣**
Also! I didn't mention a cool new word related to this topic: Xerophagy, which is a noun that means "the strictest Christian fast which is observed chiefly in the Eastern churches during Lent or especially Holy Week and in which only bread, salt, water, and vegetables may be eaten and meat, fish, milk, cheese, butter, oil, wine, and all seasonings or spices are excluded" (Merriam-Webster). It's a Late Latin word of Greek origin, where xerophagia meant "eating of dry food".
Credits:
📜 Church Father quotes: https://www.johnsanidopoulos.com/.../fasting-according-to...
📖 Bible References:
The Widow's Offering: Mark 12:41-44
Jesus's Teachings on Almsgiving, Fasting, and Prayer: Matthew 6
True Fasting: Isaiah 58

If you've ever been interested, or confused, or wanted to know more about Shrovetide/Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday 🥞🙏✝️, I put together all I know about those two things to hopefully shed some light! Thank you for watching!