I'd like to know when the memorial is for 2007. Thanks!
2007-01-29 13:23:20 · 6 answers · asked by Stacy S 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
This year it falls on April 2nd after sundown.
2007-01-29 14:36:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
On Niacin 14
First Full Moon after the Vernal Equinox. Look up the phases of the moon on the Internet. It starts at sunset. Any JW above the age of 12 knows this. Unfortunately, the churches of Christendom won't teach the followers this, as it may harm Easter donations.
2007-01-29 13:30:13 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
April 2, I know because they always ask for that day off. It is a monday. It is all about Jesus being raised from the dead.
Not Easter because they don't do the Rabbit and Egg thing.
that's pagan! But that is like a party thing. there only holiday.
They don't do pagan customs. So, have to ask how they celebrate it. These guys here are pretty laid back.
But they are really hard workers, they really know that bible.
2007-01-29 13:32:10 · answer #3 · answered by Steven 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Monday, April 2, 2007.
It is interesting and somewhat tragic that the one holiday Christ actually *DID* ask Christians to commemorate is entirely ignored by almost all of Christendom. It is, of course, the Memorial of Christ's death, sometimes called "the Last Supper" or "the Lord's Evening Meal".
(1 Corinthians 11:23-25, NWT) The Lord Jesus in the night in which he was going to be handed over took a loaf... Keep doing this in remembrance of me.” 25 He did likewise respecting the cup.. Keep doing this... in remembrance of me.”
(1 Cor 11:24, 25, NEB) "Do this as a memorial of me.”
Christ Jesus himself personally celebrated and explained the significance of that Last Supper to his followers (see Matthew 26:26-29). Christians who commemorate the Last Supper have done so on the same Jewish calendar date as Jesus did, Nisan 14, which generally falls between late March and mid-April. Interestingly, Christians in the centuries immediately after Christ's impalement were sometimes called "Quartodecimans" which literally mean "Fourteen-ers", because the early Christians were well-known for this true holy day.
How would Jesus feel to learn that the holiday he commanded was widely ignored, while his so-called followers chose to celebrate a pagan false god and their own traditions of men? We don't need to wonder.
(Matthew 15:6-9) You have made the word of God invalid because of your tradition. 7 You hypocrites, Isaiah aptly prophesied about you when he said, 8 ‘This people honors me with their lips, yet their heart is far removed from me. 9 It is in vain that they keep worshiping me, because they teach commands of men as doctrines.’”
Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/e/lmn/article_08.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/rq/article_11.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/20041215/article_02.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/20011115/article_02.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/20050101a/
http://watchtower.org/e/jt/
2007-01-29 13:44:39 · answer #4 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe that it is still on the 15th day of Nisan this year. What that day is on the Gregorian calendar is not known. It is usually a week or so after Easter.
2007-01-29 22:36:04 · answer #5 · answered by Buzz s 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Gee, I thought it was around those well known Easter holidays. Oh yeah, they pass around the bread and um grape juice but only those who think they are Gods chosen will eat it. I wonder what the number is up to?
2007-01-29 13:31:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋