the Passover and Unleavened Bread

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• unleavened bread — Made without yeast, and ordered for cereal offerings in the Temple (Lev. 2:4, 11). The theory was that the process of fermentation was a kind of corruption from a previously pure condition (1 Cor. 5:8). During the festival of Unleavened Bread at… …   Dictionary of the Bible

• feast of unleavened bread — Usage: usually capitalized F&U&B : an ancient 7 day agricultural feast marked by the offering of new grain to the Lord which began on the 15th day of the 1st month, the day after the 1st day of the Passover, and finally became one continuous… …   Useful english dictionary

• PASSOVER — (Heb. פֶּסַח, Pesah), a spring festival, beginning on the 15th day of Nisan, lasting seven days in Israel and eight in the Diaspora. It commemorates the Exodus from Egypt. The first and seventh days (the first two and last two in the Diaspora)… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Passover — • Great Jewish holiday Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Passover     Pasch or Passover     † …   Catholic encyclopedia

• The Blessed Eucharist as a Sacrament —     The Blessed Eucharist as a Sacrament     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Blessed Eucharist as a Sacrament     Since Christ is present under the appearances of bread and wine in a sacramental way, the Blessed Eucharist is unquestionably a… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Passover — The annual Jewish festival, held on the 14th of the month Nisan, which commemorated the saving events of the Exodus [[➝ Exodus, the]] from Egypt; as an institution it may have already existed in pre Israelite Canaan as an agricultural festival in …   Dictionary of the Bible

• The Last Supper —     The Last Supper     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Last Supper     The meal held by Christ and His disciples on the eve of His Passion at which He instituted the Holy Eucharist.     TIME     The Evangelists and critics generally agree that the …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Passover —    The name given to the chief of the three great historical annual festivals of the Jews. It was kept in remembrance of the Lord s passing over the houses of the Israelites (Ex. 12:13) when the first born of all the Egyptians were destroyed. It… …   Easton's Bible Dictionary

• Passover — This article is about the Jewish holiday. For other uses, see Passover (disambiguation). Passover Seder plate with symbolic foods Official name Hebrew: פסח (Pesach) Obs …   Wikipedia

• Passover (Christian holiday) — This article is about how a Jewish holiday is celebrated by Christians. See Passover for Judaism s Jewish holiday celebrating the Exodus of the Israelites from Ancient Egypt. See Easter for the major Christian festival usually linked to Passover …   Wikipedia

• Passover — /pas oh veuhr, pahs /, n. 1. Also called Pesach, Pesah. a Jewish festival that commemorates the exodus of the Jews from Egypt and is marked chiefly by the Seder ritual and the eating of matzoth. It begins on the 14th day of Nisan and is… …   Universalium