some people celebrate every day as the Lords Day, others pick special days...what Christan feasts/festivals do you know of or celebrate?
Please share
These are the ones I know of or taken part in
Epiphany
Lent (40 day of fasting)
Ash Wednesday
Pancake day
Good Friday
Passover
Easter sunday (or resurrection day)
Pentecost
White Sunday or Gospel Day
All saints day or All Souls day
Advent
Christmas day or Jesus birthday
the Lords day (every 1st day of the week)
Sabbath (every saturday)
Mothers day
Fathers day
Arbor day
Anzac day or Remebrance day (remebering those killed in wars)
I have heard of these but never celebrated them
Shrove Tuesday
Maundy Thursday
Mardi Gras
Blessing of the animals day
Thers also jewish festivals that many Christians dont celebrate unless they live in Israel
Rosh Hashannah (New Year)
Hannukah
Shauvot
Feast of Tabernacles
Purim
My favorite verses about holidays is from Colossians 2. It describes how holy days are shadows of the real thing, whilst the reality is Christ. So, we shouldn't judge or force anyone into thinking that observing them makes them Christian, whilst those who do not observe them are not Christian. We read:
"And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it. Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath
days: Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body
is of Christ."
Feasts mentioned in the Bible are pictures of the reality of Christ and so, like all scripture, help us to understand the reality - but in and of themselves are shadows. For example, the passover mentions applying the blood of a perfect lamb to the lintels and side posts of Israelites' houses whilst those who do not apply the blood of a perfect lamb are killed by the angle of death. This is a picture of how the blood of Christ saves all in Christ from death.
Similarly, the Festival of Booths talks about the number seven, which emphasizes how God does all the work of saving his own by his work on the cross. We remember that God caused his own to dwell in booths (tablernacles) when they came out of Egypt. So, it is a picture of how we live in his Word, once we are saved, because the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us.
