Easter Sunday – how did you spend your day today?
The wooden cross at St. Boniface Church is decorated with hundreds of yellow daffodils.
A little display area shows the scene of “He is not here, but is risen”.
We visited my parents-in-law this afternoon and received lots of Easter eggs, fudge, and toffee, and a variety of chocolates.
The tradition in this family is that adults also receive Easter chocolates. One particular egg my son received is a Dalek one – a fitting gift for a Doctor Who fan.
I don’t eat chocolate and I may need friends to help me finish off the chocolate that we took home. We still have two Easter eggs from last year and now we have piled up more.
Happy Easter everyone. I wish you all a lovey Easter break.
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Had a lovely church service this morning at Braishfield URC. A little sad as it was our Minister’s final one before he moves on to a new ministry in High Wycombe. The church is always decorated with flowers. Janet, another year I’ll try and remember to get some pictures!
As for Easter eggs, our tradition is to share all of the chocolate (though we follow this all year round. The advantage here is that whoever does NOT have a birthday gets a decent share of the recipient’s chocolate rations!). The only one to miss out, of course, is Mabel but she gets plenty of her own treats and from her viewpoint that’s great because we definitely don’t want to share those!
Am I alone in feeling relief that Easter is over? All that concentration on death and suffering, not just at Easter but the week before and the deprivations of Lent before that. It still goes on with poking away at the wounds until ascension.
I recall Rabbi Lionel Blue telling how, when up at Oxford and away from home, he sneaked into a Christian Church and was shocked by the violence and suffering it depicted. I, too, was shocked when visiting the Vatican to see the juxtaposition of opulence and death.
I thought the central message was to love one another.
Loved the Dalek Easter Egg by the way. We just managed a chocolate orange.
I find the Christian calendar fascinating. I particularly like to find out the links between colours, seasons and festivals. Unless you are surrounded with devout Christians, I don’t think you get to hear a lot about death and suffering these days. Shoppers who fill their trolly with Easter Eggs at supermarkets certainly don’t think about what happened on the cross. Some Christians I know of observe Lent very quietly (such as giving up chocolate, but not giving up more essential things such as food and drinks) and I certainly don’t hear about Lent often (I only know that chippy is giving up some stuff as he wrote about it in Lent – Give Up And Take Up.)
Children these days learn quite a bit about other religions in school, but you may be surprised they know very little about Christianity. The Bible is rich in literature and I think it’d be a shame if children don’t know about the stories in the Bible, such as death and suffering and miracle stuff. Knowing is not believing, but it’s good that they get to hear or read about these stories, to fuel their imagination.
I agree the central message was to love, in Christianity and in many other religions.
Comparing to Christian fundamentalists in Asia, I find Christianity in this country seems very mild. People don’t knock on your door to preach or drop leaflets to you or try to convert you, yet in Asia, the Christian movement is very strong and can be very invasive.