His son Paschal Mooney is a former senator.
However, the Paschal, or Passover, lamb was not used on the altar,
Scholars have said that“ the Paschal sacrifice was the sacrifice of Jehovah par excellence.”.
This is the Paschal message that resounds again today
and will resound for the whole Easter Season until Pentecost.
After Lazarus Saturday comes Palm
Sunday, Holy Week, and finally Easter itself, and the fast is broken immediately after the Paschal Divine Liturgy.
If the 14th of the Paschal lunar month falls on April 18
and this day is a Sunday, then Easter falls one week(seven days) later on April 25.
After the dismissal of the liturgy, the priest may bless Paschal eggs
and baskets brought by the faithful containing those foods which have been forbidden during the Great Fast.
The Paschal Vigil begins with the Midnight Office,
which is the last service of the Lenten Triodion and is timed so that it ends a little before midnight on Holy Saturday night.
Since the ecclesiastical new moon falls on a date from
8 March to 5 April inclusive, the Paschal full moon(the 14th of that lunar month)
must fall on a date from 21 March to 18 April inclusive.
However, the Paschal, or Passover, lamb was not used on the altar,
and it was offered by a group of people, usually a family, who were the ones to eat it. - Exodus 12: 4, 8- 11.
In each solar year(1 January to 31 December inclusive), the lunar month beginning with an ecclesiastical new moon falling in the 29-day period from 8 March to
5 April inclusive is designated as the Paschal lunar month for that year.