Pannuches Meal Rite Observed

The seven-week jubilee cycle of the Saturday evening Pannuches meal rite was observed at 7:00 p.m. in the Chapel of the Holy Child on February 14 and April 4. Officiating was the Right Reverend Gene Savoy Jr.

The Pannuches services are private assemblies of ministers-in-residence and are observed  after sunset in the Chapel at the downtown Apostolic Chancellery. These services precede the Sunday morning Jubilee Sunrise Divine Service held at Red Rock Consecrated Sanctuary—this spring on Sundays February 15 and April 5.

The Pannuches meal rite also corresponds to the last supper of Jesus, master rabban of the Essaei Order, who by tradition celebrated the same ritual following the calendar of the Essene Community of Light in ancient Israel. The Essenes, unlike other sects and First Dispensation Christianity, who follow a lunar calendar in determining the Easter cycle, preserved a solar calendrical system that designates April 18 as the True Easter.