Did the Annunciation and Good Friday coincide?

Birkat Hachama “Blessing of the Sun”

The Birkat Hachama is mentioned in the Jewish Talmud a tradition that relates the return of the Sun to it’s Starting point, where it began on the forth day.

It is difficult to associate this date with March 25 as Prior to the influence of the Grecko Roman era, the term March meant nothing. What did mean something was the date of Passover, which coincides traditionally with not March 25, but the New creation of Birkat hachama.

This is the springtime when in Nature New Life is created. The Ancient Jews associated this time with the Creation of the world, in fact, Like the apostle Paul, the early Church used this date to associate events in Gods plan of salvation, to express new life and new creations.

In John 3:10 Jesus spoke of being born anew, a new creation, and when Nicode’mus did not understand

Jesus answered him, “are you a teacher of Israel and yet do not understand this”

From the vary first Paragraph of Genesis, god show how he creates, he does so with “Water and Spirit” and traditionally this was done around the time of Passover.

The earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters.

Believing as the Jews did, that the earth was created With water and Spirit, we see a certain elegance and beauty that God would create not only the New Creation of Genesis, but that Of Israel coming with Water and spirit out of Eqypt, then again, with the virgin Mary when God, created himself at the annunciation. Finally, at the calibration of the Passover, Christ on the Cross, making a new Creation with waters of Baptism and the Holy Spirit.

These Ideas are not Catholic Dogma and any Christian is free to deny any of it. I find them to be reasonable ideas that do not in any way take away from Gods Work. There is also a element of beauty to the idea, which we should not focus on apart from those teachings that are clear, but surely, we can appreciate the beauty of these ideas even if they spawn from Jewish and Christian Traditions.

I for one tend to believe that the second coming of Jesus Christ will mostly likely occur at the time of Passover, it seems fitting and there would be a type of Passover happening. This would of course not be a Secret Rapture such ideas go against the teachings of the Church.

First of all, it should be noted with respect to the Kalendar of the Sarum Rite that you refer to, that page 3 shows a reprint of the Kalendar from 1526, when both the Annunciation and Good Friday are on March 25, but as seen some pages back in the introduction, specifically on page xi, in the Sarum Use Easter was a movable feast, as can be seen from the fact that some feasts (e.g., Christmas) have an appended date, while Easter, Ascension, and Whitsunday (Pentecost) do not, as they were movable feasts. So while it sometimes happened in the Sarum use, just as it does today, that there was co-incidence between Good Friday and the Annunciation on March 25, this was occasional, and did not happen every year.

Second, among those Christians who follow the Eastern Rite, there is a disagreement on the calendar. Some of the Orthodox follow the Julian Calendar, which at present runs 12 days ahead of the calendar currently used by most of the world. This means that liturgically, for these churches, Christmas falls on what they liturgically call December 25, but which on the current revised calendar, is designated January 6 of the following year. So in that system, too, the Annunciation and Good Friday can fall on the same day, but they do not this year, for the Orthodox. March 25 for the Orthodox will occur on what the secular calendar denotes as April 6, while Holy Friday will occur on (secular) April 29, or according to their liturgical calendar, April 17, and Easter on (secular) May 1, or according to their liturgical calendar, April 19.

I also read some years ago of a similar pious beliefs in various places and various times, that were the Calendars traced back far enough, that the extrapolated date of both the Annunciation (in it's extpraolated year) and the Passion, in it's separate appointed year would have been March 25. I would note, though, that at the time I realized that the writer recording this was writing as if there had been no correction between the Gregorian and Julian Calendars. And since there is little certainty exactly what year Jesus was born, and what year he died, it is difficult to know for certain whether this belief can be supported, or not.