Happy Easter

Happy Easter to all those who celebrate it! Whether your observance is religious or secular, I hope you enjoy it and it brings you happiness and peace.

What are your plans? How are you celebrating the day?

I'll be skating in the evening. Nothing other than usual day to day stuff. I used to go to Mass every easter and easters vigil especially. Now that people have to make reservations to go mass, I doubt they'd be a vigil. Unless maybe a private one...baptism, confirmation, with just family and invitees.

Our Easter tradition is to sing along with the film Jesus Christ Superstar while drinking red wine.

If the weather stays good the chances are well be saving a family BBQ.

Left Coast said:

Happy Easter to all those who celebrate it! Whether your observance is religious or secular, I hope you enjoy it and it brings you happiness and peace.

What are your plans? How are you celebrating the day?

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Easter blessings to you @Left Coast and your boyfriend @Jacobian!!

I also wish you and everyone else marking the festival tomorrow on RF, every happiness and peace.

Whether religiously or secularly celebrated, Easter is at heart about appreciating the triumph of life and the beauty of living; symbolized by the springtime flowers that adorn Christian altars, the symbols of the egg and candlelight vigil and in more modern times the pleasure of indulging in chocolate, cake and the heartening sound of children laughing as they roll eggs down hills or go on egg-hunts. So, I hope everyone partaking of it - in at least some fashion - gets a moment to reflect on that, Gaudium Vitae - the joy of life.

As for me, I will be starting the celebration tonight around 8 pm GMT, by joining Pope Francis in a livestreamed Easter Vigil Mass at the Vatican. It's the most sacred of religious rituals in my denomination, involving the blessing of a fire representing the light of Christ as the Morning Star that never sets, from which the priest lights the paschal candle and walks it into a darkened church. Once every other candle in the congregation has received its light from this holy fire, the deacon proclaims the Easter blessing and then sings the Exsultet:


Tomorrow, I'm joining my parents for a family meal and barbecue out in their back-garden, and in addition to my mother's yummy cooking will be enjoying some chocolate Easter eggs and cake along with red wine, after having fasted from all sugary foods (including chocolate) as well as alcohol, bread and coffee, throughout the forty-days of Lent.

Here's hoping the weather stays sunny and clement

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ChristineM said:

If the weather stays good the chances are well be saving a family BBQ.

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Are you not back in lockdown?

We're having the family round, I'm in charge of the Easter Egg Hunt.

Altfish said:

Are you not back in lockdown?

We're having the family round, I'm in charge of the Easter Egg Hunt.

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Not a lockdown despite what the telegraph and sky says. The measures that the 19 worst hit departments have had for the last month or so now applies to the the whole country. So there are tighter restrictions on distance we can travel, schools are closed, the bigger stores are closed. As for the rest it's petty much the same as its been all year.

Thank you so much.
Happy Easter to all.

Eggs.

Vouthon said:

the joy of life.

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That's a very nice way of putting it.

Left Coast said:

Happy Easter to all those who celebrate it! Whether your observance is religious or secular, I hope you enjoy it and it brings you happiness and peace.

What are your plans? How are you celebrating the day?

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And a Happy Easter to you & yours, and the same to all other Christians reading this.

Left Coast said:

Happy Easter to all those who celebrate it! Whether your observance is religious or secular, I hope you enjoy it and it brings you happiness and peace.

What are your plans? How are you celebrating the day?

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Relaxing at home. This is more the wife's holiday then mine.

I'll be taking care of my hubby who will be grievously suffering from the sore arm, possible headache and tiredness of his first vax shot tomorrow.

Regiomontanus said:

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Nothing personal but I like the then this better than the first this because I love walks in the woods.
Oh how I miss walks in the woods. I live in the woods but there is no place to walk because there are too many trees.

Happy and blessed Easter to all. It certainly is a time of renewal and I am experiencing that personally in my life in various ways. New decisions, getting goals in focus. Healing myself psychologically and spiritually.

I was planning on maybe going to a Catholic parish for Easter Vigil tonight but decided that that is not for me. I feel really adverse to Catholicism for a number of reasons, and the only other Christian choices for in-person attendance here would be Protestant churches, which I am even more adverse to. So no church for me. I be in prayer and in thought.

Left Coast said:

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I am sorry to be a wet blanket but I have no plans and nothing to celebrate....

I do not even celebrate the Baha'i Holy Days, holidays or new year. I just wait for them to be over with.

Happy Easter friends <3

Trailblazer said:

Nothing personal but I like the then this better than the first this because I love walks in the woods.
Oh how I miss walks in the woods. I live in the woods but there is no place to walk because there are too many trees.

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Lucky me, the woods start a fee dozen feet from my backdoor. This land is almost sacred to me; I have a deep connection to the forest (and worry about what might happen to it after I am gone). That trail is not on my property btw.