Easter

[Orthodox Christian]

A very happy, peaceful and blessed Easter to all of you. 

[InCognitus]

1 hour ago, Orthodox Christian said:

A very happy, peaceful and blessed Easter to all of you. 

Happy Easter to you too!

The talk by Elder Gary E. Stevenson at the Saturday morning session of General Conference last week got me thinking about Easter traditions, and what kinds of traditions are appropriate for Easter.  

What kinds of traditions do you have for Easter?

Edit to add:  Our Come Follow Me lesson for this week suggest that we could be thinking about what Jesus was doing each day of the week leading up to the Crucifixion and resurrection.  On Saturday he was doing this:

"For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:  By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;  Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water."  (1 Peter 3:18–20)

Edited April 8, 2023 by InCognitus

[Pyreaux]

Happy Easter, ever heard of Empty Tomb Cookies?

 

[MiserereNobis]

3 hours ago, InCognitus said:

Edit to add:  Our Come Follow Me lesson for this week suggest that we could be thinking about what Jesus was doing each day of the week leading up to the Crucifixion and resurrection.

This is exactly what the liturgy for Holy Week does. 

[mfbukowski]

1 hour ago, MiserereNobis said:

This is exactly what the liturgy for Holy Week does. 

Amazingly, this is a new thing for us.  We are slowly becoming more C..... uh....  like you guys.

I still want to see stations of the cross.....  Gregorian chant....  fergit about confession though...  !! 

Unless it is 3 Hail Marys.   I can handle that.  But a rosary?  Oy vey!  That's where I become Jewish..... 

 

[Pyreaux]

18 hours ago, mfbukowski said:

Amazingly, this is a new thing for us.  We are slowly becoming more C..... uh....  like you guys.

I still want to see stations of the cross.....  Gregorian chant....  fergit about confession though...  !! 

Unless it is 3 Hail Marys.   I can handle that.  But a rosary?  Oy vey!  That's where I become Jewish..... 

We could always adopt their holidays but practice it the Jewish way. Easter is Passover, Christmas is Yom Kippur, Pentecost is Weeks, Advent and Epiphany are aspects of Tabernacles. The Eastern Churches still bless the waters for Epiphany which comes from blessing the temple's water.

[InCognitus]

5 minutes ago, Pyreaux said:

We could always adopt their holidays but practice it the Jewish way. Easter is Passover, Christmas is Yom Kippur, Pentecost is Weeks, Advent and Epiphany are aspects of Tabernacles. The Eastern Churches still bless the waters for Epiphany which comes from blessing the temple's water.

We tend to celebrate some of these holidays in a very covert sort of way, like the Book of Mormon plates coming out of the earth on the Feast of Trumpets (September 22, 1827) which has the theme of the regathering of Israel (the beginning of Israel's final harvest), and Elijah coming to the Kirtland Temple on April 3, 1836, which not only was Easter Sunday that year but it also coincided with the Jewish Passover.

[rodheadlee]

20 hours ago, MiserereNobis said:

This is exactly what the liturgy for Holy Week does. 

Semana Santa?

[mfbukowski]

1 hour ago, InCognitus said:

We tend to celebrate some of these holidays in a very covert sort of way, like the Book of Mormon plates coming out of the earth on the Feast of Trumpets (September 22, 1827) which has the theme of the regathering of Israel (the beginning of Israel's final harvest), and Elijah coming to the Kirtland Temple on April 3, 1836, which not only was Easter Sunday that year but it also coincided with the Jewish Passover.

There you go!

When did the Israelites finally enter the promised land?

Just mix it in with Pioneer Day!

🫠🤪

Edited April 9, 2023 by mfbukowski

[mfbukowski]

1 hour ago, rodheadlee said:

Semana Santa?

No, that's Christmas! 😜

[InCognitus]

I've always thought the same thing about John 20:4  

 

[rodheadlee]

1 hour ago, mfbukowski said:

No, that's Christmas! 😜

No it's the week we had to wait in Panama to get a boat part because nobody worked.

[jpv]

On 4/8/2023 at 11:56 AM, Orthodox Christian said:

A very happy, peaceful and blessed Easter to all of you. 

Thanks so much. 

Thinking of joining a Pascha service at our Greek Orthodox church next week. 

Would we be welcome?

Is the main Paschal service Saturday night or Sunday morning?

 

Which would you recommend?

[JustAnAustralian]

5 hours ago, Pyreaux said:

We could always adopt their holidays but practice it the Jewish way.

I like bacon too much.

[Pyreaux]

28 minutes ago, JustAnAustralian said:

I like bacon too much.

Messianic Jews then? They do a Passover with a Christian message.

[mfbukowski]

3 hours ago, rodheadlee said:

No it's the week we had to wait in Panama to get a boat part because nobody worked.

A man of many experiences!

[Orthodox Christian]

4 hours ago, jpv said:

Thanks so much. 

Thinking of joining a Pascha service at our Greek Orthodox church next week. 

Would we be welcome?

Is the main Paschal service Saturday night or Sunday morning?

 

Which would you recommend?

Yes you would be welcome I am sure, but the Greeks can be a little Conservative, you know no love bombing. There will be a vespers service in the evening of  Holy Saturday, which I really like. Or obviously the service on Sunday morning, give them a call to find out times. All Orthodox service are long, so be prepared for that. 

[Orthodox Christian]

On 4/8/2023 at 11:42 PM, MiserereNobis said:

This is exactly what the liturgy for Holy Week does. 

Yes, we walk with Christ each day to the Cross, still fasting and in bright sadness. 

[Navidad]

10 hours ago, Orthodox Christian said:

Yes you would be welcome I am sure, but the Greeks can be a little Conservative, you know no love bombing. There will be a vespers service in the evening of  Holy Saturday, which I really like. Or obviously the service on Sunday morning, give them a call to find out times. All Orthodox service are long, so be prepared for that. 

I attended an Antiochan Orthodox church. I always felt quite welcome.

[InCognitus]

While I was out on my walk this morning I was listening again Elder Gary E. Stevenson's conference talk from two weeks ago, "The Greatest Easter Story Ever Told", and I was reflecting on my Easter experience last week.  This portion of his talk reminded me of some my experiences with Easter while living in Arizona:

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I observe a growing effort among Latter-day Saints toward a more Christ-centered Easter. This includes a greater and more thoughtful recognition of Palm Sunday and Good Friday as practiced by some of our Christian cousins. We might also adopt appropriate Christ-centered Easter traditions found in the cultures and practices of countries worldwide.

New Testament scholar N. T. Wright suggested: “We should be taking steps to celebrate Easter in creative new ways: in art, literature, children’s games, poetry, music, dance, festivals, bells, special concerts. … This is our greatest festival. Take Christmas away, and in biblical terms you lose two chapters at the front of Matthew and Luke, nothing else. Take Easter away, and you don’t have a New Testament; you don’t have a Christianity.”

Last April, I reported on the resumption of the Mesa Arizona Temple Easter Pageant after it was put on hold for three years while the Mesa Temple was undergoing renovation:

Given Elder Stevenson's comments in his talk and even in his quote from N. T. Wright, I can understand why the Arizona Easter Pageant is not one of the pageants that the church has discontinued.  

About two weeks ago, KSL News published this documentary on "Jesus the Christ: The Mesa Easter Pageant”, and it shows the love and devotion to the subject matter that goes into the production of this pageant:

I live in Utah now, and I was not able to attend the pageant this year.  In the future I hope to visit Arizona during the Easter season so I can see it again.  It was always part of my Easter tradition in the past.

[Damien the Leper]

Hope everyone is having a blessed Orthodox Pascha today! I celebrated at Sts. Peter and Paul Russian Orthodox Church in downtown Phoenix.

Edited April 18, 2023 by Damien the Leper

[Orthodox Christian]

Christ is risen, Glorify Him!