[Dialogue] Fw: Kirkridge Reflection for Passover

[Janice Ulangca]

Thanks, Cynthia, for the Happy Passover message.  A delightful web site.  Passover begins tonight, April 8, at sundown with a Seder.
Janice Ulangca


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From: Jean Richardson 
To: aulangca at stny.rr.com 
Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 5:41 AM
Subject: Kirkridge Reflection for Passover


           
                        Kirkridge Retreat Center 

                            Reflection for Passover 
                       
                       
                 
           

                  Passover Prayer

                  Long ago, at this season, on such a night as this, a people - our people - set out on a journey. 
                  All but crushed by their enslavement, they yet recalled the far-off memory of a happier past. 
                  And heard the voice of their ancestral God, bidding them summon up the courage to be free. 
                  Boldly, they went forth from Egypt, crossed the Sea, and headed through the desert for the Promised Land. 
                  What they experienced, they remembered, and told their children, and they to theirs. 
                  From generation to generation, the story was retold, and we are here to tell it yet again. 
                  We too give thanks for Israel's liberation; we too remember what it means to be a slave. 
                  And so we pray for all who are still fettered, still denied their human rights. 
                  Let all God's children sit at his table, drink the wine of deliverance, and eat the bread of freedom: 

                  Freedom from bondage 
                  And freedom from oppression, 

                  Freedom from hunger 
                  And freedom from want, 

                  Freedom from hatred 
                  And freedom from fear, 

                  Freedom to think
                  And freedom to speak, 

                  Freedom to learn 
                  And freedom to love, 

                  Freedom to hope 
                  And freedom to rejoice; 

                  Soon in our days, 

                  Amen.  

                 
                 
           

                  How to Greet a Jew During Passover



                  Basic: "Happy Passover"!

                  Advanced:
                  - "Chag Kasher v'Sameach!" (Wishing you a Happy and Kosher Holiday)  
                  - Between first and last days of Passover (from Fri, April 10 - Tue, April 14): "Moadim L'Simcha" (Seasons of Joy)

                   - "Zissin Pesach" (Yiddish for Happy Passover)


                    

                  Special thanks to:  Rabbi Justus N. Baird
                                                Director, Center for Multifaith Education
                                                Auburn Theological Seminary, NY 
           
           


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                  Bangor, PA. 18013 
                  610-588-1793 

                  WWW.KIRKRIDGE.ORG 
                 
           
           
     

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