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4th. of July -The Declaration of Independence

Historical Background to the Declaration of Independence. Most Americans think they know everything about the Declaration of Independence of the United States from England in 1776. If anything, I hope to give you a bit...

From the Passover Seder to the Corpus Christi Feast

Corpus Christi is a moveable feast, celebrated on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday, 60 days after Easter. Corpus Christi a.k.a. “Maundy Thursday” initiates the Paschal Triduum, the period which commemorates the passion, death, and resurrection...

Juneteenth – Freedom finally came on June 19, 1865….

The Emancipation Proclamation, declared by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 during the American Civil War, only freed slaves held in Confederate states. The emancipation became national policy, when the Thirteenth Amendment was passed by the Senate on April 8,...