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[quote=Anonymous]In one sense, the Eucharistic sects do: the Eucharist is a re-enactment of the Passover meal that Jesus celebrated with his disciples before his crucifixion.

From the Catechism of the Catholic Church: "By celebrating the Last Supper with his apostles in the course of the Passover meal, Jesus gave the Jewish Passover its definitive meaning. Jesus' passing over to his father by his death and Resurrection, the new Passover, is anticipated in the Supper and celebrated in the Eucharist, which fulfills the Jewish Passover and anticipates the final Passover of the Church in the glory of the kingdom."

In another sense, we don't celebrate Passover because we believe it has been superseded or supplanted by Easter.

Some Christian denominations and sects DO celebrate some Jewish/OT holidays.  And many of them are referenced in the Gospels, because Jesus observed them, and so they are memorialized in the liturgical cycle.

Other holidays have been adapted or subsumed.  For example, Pentecost is based on Shavuot.  Pentecost celebrates the birth of the Church, when thousands of Jews were in Jerusalem to celebrate Shavuot, and heard Peter and the disciples speaking in their own language.

But because Christianity broke with Judaism, it didn't maintain the holidays that Jews celebrated -- it had its own.  And because Jews were subject to severe persecution by Christians, it might not be in the best of taste for Christians to start celebrating Jewish holidays as their own.  Learn about them, sure.  Participate in them in respectful ways, maybe.  But not just take them over.[/quote]

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