Judeo-Christian Holidays This Week

[scottydog]

I'm a Catholic who will observe Easter by attending church and honoring the message of love that the Christian faith preaches. I'll also pig out like crazy on those little chocolate eggs!


If any of you are interested, check out my recent blog post on Jesus.

 

[Daneel]

Well, my parents and grandmother are usually good for some candy come Easter time (last year I got some chocolate shaped like the U.S.S. Defiant!), but beyond that, I don't really celebrate/observe the holidays in any way -- of course, I stopped identifying as Catholic (and gave up on religion entirely) about ten years ago, so really, why would I celebrate?

It looks like I'll be working on Easter this year... but hey, at least I should get paid time and a half for that.

 

[RJDiogenes]

I'll be going to my Mother's house for Easter, because I'm invited. I do like all the eggs and bunnies and other leftover Pagan fertility symbols, though. Happy Oester.

 

[mari]

I was raised Catholic, and Dad and one sister are super-observant, so I've been observing Lent by conspicuously eating meat on Fridays to be annoying. (I'm a spiritual-non-religious type.) And we (me, two sisters, brother-in-law) are getting baskets on Sunday morning because Mom likes shopping. Dad is an usher and has to ush the vigil mass, but I think the rest of us will be hitting the early mass Sunday morning. We're having my sister's in-laws and Dad's parents over for dinner, too. I'm all for holidays with food and candy and presents!

 

[StarryEyed]

I celebrate Easter; it's my favorite holiday of the year. I don't do candy eggs and the Easter bunny, though. I keep it strictly religious.

Eggs and rabbits (hares, originally) ARE religious. Easter is a pagan festival to celebrate the coming of spring. Eggs and rabbits are fertility symbols. Early Christians coincided their celebration of the resurrection with the pagan festival, thereby displacing it.

 

[Crusher Disciple]

I'm Episcopalian, and I have mixed feelings about going to Easter/ Christmas services. For starters, we have a parking garage at our church, and it was freakin' PACKED for the Noontime Ash Wednesday service.

Knowing that the C&Es (members who only show up on Christmas and Easter) will pack the place, I really don't want to deal with the headache of trying to park for the service and having to dodge the people who have virtually forgotten when the sanctuary is.

So I'm thinking of just going to the Holy Week services, like on Good Friday and the Saturday vigil, and just skipping Easter Sunday altogether.

CD,
hates traffic

 

[Lindley]

I'm catholic and have been observing Lent. I will also attend Holy Thursday, and Good Friday masses this year. Probably not the 3 hour Easter Vigil on Saturday night since my daughter is only 18 months old. We will be there on Easter Sunday though.

In my experience, the Good Friday service is usually longer than the Holy Saturday vigil, due to the Passion.

 

[gturner]

Now that I think of it, what do you do exactly with rabbits? If I remember correctly it's not for food, and I hope it's not for fur, so... what's the deal? Tell me it's not sexual fetishism...

Well, I just live with them.

Two are on my bed right now, a lop and an up-ear. The up-ear bunny is kind of keeping an eye on me. The lop-ear is just hopping around, occassionally grooming himself or the up-ear one. He's just visiting from downstairs. Other's might visit from downstairs when they feel like it.

Oop. Now the up-ear has decided to redecorate the little box she likes to hang out in.

 

[T'Girl]

reenactments of the Passion

The way they do this in the Philippines maked me run for the nearest air conditioned church.

gturner, I've always wondered, can you house train rabbits?

 

[Star Wolf]

reenactments of the Passion

The way they do this in the Philippines maked me run for the nearest air conditioned church.

Are you talking about those folks who will have themselves nailed to crosses and/or the ones who beat themselves bloody?

 

[gturner]

reenactments of the Passion

The way they do this in the Philippines maked me run for the nearest air conditioned church.

gturner, I've always wondered, can you house train rabbits?

Yeap! They're never quite as good at it as cats or skunks, but they learn easily enough. They like to poop in the same place, so you put litterboxes where they poo. The other good thing is that bunny poos are hard little pea-sized things that don't have any odor. They're more like paper wads you'd shoot through a straw.

Houserabbits.org has lots of information on the subject.

 

[iguana_tonante]

Now that I think of it, what do you do exactly with rabbits? If I remember correctly it's not for food, and I hope it's not for fur, so... what's the deal? Tell me it's not sexual fetishism...

Well, I just live with them.

Two are on my bed right now, a lop and an up-ear.

So I was right about sexual fetishism...

 

[Mark de Vries]

It'll be a busy couple of days for me, as always (well, since I became Catholic, to be honest ).

A friend and me are organising an all-night vigil in the night from Maundy Thursday to Good Friday, and the days after that will be busy enough. Stations of the Cross on Good Friday, not knowing what to do with myself on Saturday, serving at the early Easter vigil on saturday evening, and then I'll likely tag along to the 'proper' one at 11pm in the cathedral. And on Easter Monday I'm serving at a Mass offered by our bishop.

So yeah, Easter. It's busy, but I love it.

 

[Pingfah]

I get Friday and Monday off work, but I don't celebrate anything, except having some free time off work.

 

[scottydog]

The Wife and I are going to spend Easter relaxing, having a light dinner, enjoying the peace & quiet, while her (ahem) nice well-behaved children are at their dad's house. I will savor every moment of serenity.

 

[Michael Chris]

Yes. I won't be doing much different, except missing church on Sunday night since it's canceled for the sunrise service. And trying to get to the sunrise service.

Anyone in the Q, check out the Easter Sunrise Service at University Stadium! Pastor Skip will be leading, and it's gonna be awesome!

 

[Gryffindorian]

Most Catholics in my community observed Good Friday and Black Sabbath

Do you call the Saturday before Easter the Black Sabbath? Is it common knowledge? I never heard that before in Italy. That's awesome!

OMG!!! Did I really say Black Sabbath?!?

Anyway, we referred to it as Sabado de Gloria.

 

[Gryffindorian]

Most Catholics in my community observed Good Friday and Black Sabbath

Do you call the Saturday before Easter the Black Sabbath? Is it common knowledge? I never heard that before in Italy. That's awesome!

OMG!!! Did I really say Black Sabbath?!?

Anyway, we referred to it as Sabado de Gloria.

Edited to Add: Our local parish also had a clergy named Judas Priest.

Seriously, I could've sworn the day after Good Friday was called Black Saturday or the Sabbath.

 

[RoJoHen]

Seriously, I could've sworn the day after Good Friday was called Black Saturday or the Sabbath.

Calling it the Sabbath would be weird, considering the Sabbath happens every week already.

 

[Kirby]

I'm catholic and have been observing Lent. I will also attend Holy Thursday, and Good Friday masses this year. Probably not the 3 hour Easter Vigil on Saturday night since my daughter is only 18 months old. We will be there on Easter Sunday though.

In my experience, the Good Friday service is usually longer than the Holy Saturday vigil, due to the Passion.

Good Friday mass at our church is about an hour and a half to two hours. It also starts at 7:00, as opposed to the 8:00pm start time for the Easter Vigil.