the Jews, in accordance with Moses, sacrificed the lamb for Pascha only once a year, on the fourteenth day of the first month, toward evening.

But we who are of the New Covenant hold our own Pascha on every Lord’s day [Sunday], and so continually we are filled with the body of the Savior and continually we share in the blood of the lamb. Continually the loins of our soul are girded with purity and self-control; continually our feet are readied with the equipment of the Gospel (Eph 6.15); continually we have staves in our hands, and rest upon the shoot sprung forth from the root of Jesse(Is 11.1).

Continually we are released from Egypt and continually we pursue the desert where humans can really live. Continually we set out upon the journey toward God and continually we celebrate the Passover. For the word of the gospel wishes us to do all these things not once a year but continually and every day - Eusebius of Caesaria, On the Feast of Pascha

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"We must [not think Christ's] resurrection..left not behind it a virtue..permanent to work continually some grace in us..The Spirit..ever goes with the blood..His blood..wrought these two effects [of the Sacraments]..so, there may be a resurrection of virtue."

-Lancelot Andrewes

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