This year God allowed all Christians – Catholics, Orthodox ans Protestants to celebrate Easter on the same day. Volunteers and some clients of Life Care Center decided to come together to be a part of Easter celebration on Thursday the day when Jesus died. Later we found out that this day was specially honored and according to the Jewish tradition the Easter lamb was slaughtered that day, symbolizing the future sacrifice in Jesus Christ. That day the whole family came together to remember how God helped Moses to bring the Jewish people out of slavery. He sent the ten plagues to show the hard-hearted Pharaoh the He meant business.

The last plague was the worst – death. The Angel of death flew over the entire land of Egypt to slay all the first born sons ans cattle. Yet God provided way for the Jewish people to escape. He instructed them to take a year-old lamb and kill it at twilight. They were to mark the doors with it's blood and those who did that were “passed over” and spared. This is exactly where we get the name for the holiday.

The Jewish people have celebrated Passover since to remember God's deliverance.
Christians celebrate the sacrifice of the Passover lamb to remember the real Lamb of God, Jesus Christ.

In a Jewish home the Passover preparation start with cleaning the house of dust and dirt and something called leaven. Leaven is anything which makes bread or cake rise. So, things like baking powder, soda and yeast had to be taken out of the home. In the Bible leaven usually represents sin. Yeast multiplies very rapidly and makes dough double in size. Sin is so similar – one wrоng seems to lead to another. That is why the Jews ate only MATZO for Easter – flat, crunchy squares made of special flour and water. The table was set in a special way with certain types of food: