Passover and Easter Weeks

It's great when Passover and Easter come together like they do this year. I think it gives a little extra depth to our celebrations. Well, to the celebrations of SOME people, anyway.

Have you noticed any differences in approaches to the holidays this spring?

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After Dennis Prager's terrible paralyzing accident, I found this message on the meaning of the Passover (from before the accident) to be especially memorable: There are two basic messages in this short piece that you may want to think about this weekend.

Passover starts at sundown! Dennis gives an intruduction to the Passover Seder, a ritual meal marking the beginning of Passover in the Jewish religion. Want more? Watch the entire Passover Seder on Prageru!#dennisprager #dennispragershow #prageru pic.twitter.com/TzvxmcOBx8
— Dennis Prager (@DennisPrager) April 11, 2025

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Contrast: State, not home:

Christians showed up outside a school to protest after the headteacher decided to cancel Easter to instead celebrate 'refugee week.'

They’re trying to erase Christianity in real time— step up and fight back before it’s too late.

pic.twitter.com/CZ26DKM40d
— Liberacrat™️ (@Liberacrat) April 3, 2025

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Did Westminster Abbey do better than that school?

Would King Charles give a more Christian message, or a less Christian message?

In our short film for families, find out all about #Easter, how Christians celebrate this special season - and why we eat chocolate eggs at this time of year!

Watch now⤵️ pic.twitter.com/CyXrnkG3NH
— Westminster Abbey (@wabbey) April 8, 2025

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Change?

Lowe’s will be closing all 1,700 of its stores for an entire day on April 20

Why?

Because it’s Easter, the holiest day in Christianity, and they want all of their employees to spend that day with family

Bravo Lowe’s👏🏼 pic.twitter.com/7nNgGvS0dU
— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) April 7, 2025

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Secular Easter

Show this to your kids so they know what the Easter Bunny does to people who eat their Easter eggs before Easter Sunday.

Don't follow me for parenting tips. pic.twitter.com/7P1OowHTQ8
— Jack David (@FFS_WhatNow) April 7, 2025

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More Secular Easter

Happy Easter, frockers! Here’s Liberace serving us #frockingFabulous, wearing a Fabergé suit and hatching from a giant Fabergé egg at his 1978 Radio City Easter show! pic.twitter.com/ao0Xxap8rQ
— Catherine Curzon (@MadameGilflurt) March 31, 2024

What are you gonna do if you're staying home with the kids this holiday?

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Music

Repeating some great Easter music

BBC had some music suggestions. Here's one:

Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Festival Overture
This 1888 overture is named for the Svetliy prazdnik or 'Bright holiday', as Easter is known in Russia.
An avowed atheist, Rimsky-Korsakov wrote that he wanted to capture 'the transition from the solemnity and mystery of the evening of Passion Saturday to the unbridled pagan-religious celebrations of Easter Sunday morning'. The piece paints vividly the explosion of light and colour at the end of a long, hard Russian winter.
Religious and pagan themes are entwined at the very heart of the work: Rimsky-Korsakov borrowed themes from the Obikhod, a collection of Orthodox chants that since 1848 had been a mandatory part of the liturgy for every church in Russia.
These austere motifs shine through the wild textures of the orchestra, no more so than at 8'35 when a solo tenor trombone ('a piena voce') evokes the chanting of a priest.

Handel:

More Handel

Do you have a favorite piece of Easter music? Passover music?

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Hope you have something nice planned for this weekend.

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Posted by: K.T. at 11:10 AM

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1 Good morning KT

Posted by: Skip at April 12, 2025 11:11 AM (ypFCm)

2 I like going to Lowes, mostly because it's close. But highly approve their closing for Easter.

Posted by: Skip at April 12, 2025 11:14 AM (ypFCm)

3 Hi, Skip!

Posted by: KT at April 12, 2025 11:16 AM (xekrU)

4 There are of course memes out there, showing the Easter Bunny baked out of his mind, smoking the Lord's herb.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 12, 2025 11:17 AM (lH8E4)

5

Thank you, Easter Bunny

https://youtu.be/FbvUPW_bc_M

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 12, 2025 11:17 AM (63Dwl)

6 Thx KT. There's a lot going on in the world . Easter and Passover are a time to put that all in perspective

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 12, 2025 11:18 AM (6TePA)

7 KT hope you are fully on the mend

Posted by: Skip at April 12, 2025 11:19 AM (ypFCm)

8 Watching MSM commercials I've learned that Easter is
a diverse holiday that's all about Reese's eggs. rainbow bunnies, and new spring clothes for the kids. This is what Easter is according to the MSM.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 12, 2025 11:21 AM (/U5Yz)

9 The only times that Passover and Easter don't coincide closely is when the Jewish calendar has their leap month. We have to adjust our calendar with February 29th every four years too.

Posted by: Under Rabbinical Supervision at April 12, 2025 11:22 AM (G5+As)

10 Liberace was and still is America's favorite flaming queen. And he did it without forcing his lifestyle onto children and others. He was queer as a three dollar bill, but, man, he could put on a show.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at April 12, 2025 11:22 AM (g8Ew8)

11 At least Doktor Mommy Dr. Jill is not in charge of the Easter Egg Roll at the White House this year, or any year in the future.

Posted by: Life's Little Blessings at April 12, 2025 11:24 AM (G5+As)

12 Skip at April 12, 2025 11:19 AM

Thanks, Skip. Stroke seems resolved. Heart up next.

Posted by: KT at April 12, 2025 11:25 AM (xekrU)

13 I've often wondered why Easter wasn't a bigger holiday than Christmas.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 12, 2025 11:26 AM (W/lyH)

14 Wal-Mart used to be closed on Easter. They don't do that anymore. Although they don't stay open 24 hrs anymore. Open at 6am close at 11pm which is good. They really should close for Easter.

I'm old enough to remember when everything was closed on Sunday. Everything! During the week some stores and gas stations were open from 6am to 8pm. But at 8:30 pm on Saturday night the sidewalks were rolled up and only a movie theater or a bar had any business.
People actually survived not being able to buy gas and soda pop at 2am. Imagine!

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 12, 2025 11:26 AM (2J/Lj)

15 10 Liberace was and still is America's favorite flaming queen. And he did it without forcing his lifestyle onto children and others. He was queer as a three dollar bill, but, man, he could put on a show.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons

Bite your tongue! Liberace won a libel suit against a British newspaper that claimed he was gay. Have you?

Posted by: Aruba Liberace, Play Mambo for Me at April 12, 2025 11:27 AM (G5+As)

16 Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at April 12, 2025 11:22 AM

Liberace seemed to fit pretty well in a fancy Easter Egg.

Posted by: KT at April 12, 2025 11:27 AM (xekrU)

17 I've often wondered why Easter wasn't a bigger holiday than Christmas.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 12, 2025 11:26 AM (W/lyH)

He had to be born in order to die for us.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 12, 2025 11:28 AM (2J/Lj)

18 Thank you KT.

I think Westminster Abbey did a pretty good job explaining Easter honestly

My most memorable special Easter was 4 years ago… 2021 in the depths of covid I was fortunate enough to attend Easter worship at Grace Community Church, John MacArthur’s church in LA which was defying the silly state and county no gathering rules. No social distancing… lots of singing… and the best preaching. What a contrast from the year before when I had nowhere to go. I’ll never forget it. Pray for MacArthur as I believe he’s quite ill

I’ll most look forward this year to the Good Friday service

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 12, 2025 11:31 AM (6RwsA)

19 Liberace was and still is America's favorite flaming queen. And he did it without forcing his lifestyle onto children and others. He was queer as a three dollar bill, but, man, he could put on a show.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at April 12, 2025 11:22 AM (g8Ew

What was it with him and Sonja Henie, the nazzie skater?

Apparently he would talk about how they were once engaged, but I just looked her up, she had three husbands. They don't mentioned Free Ace at all.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 12, 2025 11:31 AM (rEPmj)

20 The Westminster Abbey sure didn't want to intimidate anyone with a guy in clerical garb.

Posted by: KT at April 12, 2025 11:31 AM (xekrU)

21 14 Sunday closing regs allowed my Dad, the baker, to be open for a few hours Sunday morning. And IIRC, the drug stores in town had a rotation, one being allowed to have the pharmacy open on Sunday.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 12, 2025 11:32 AM (gm9Sb)

22 Liberace seemed to fit pretty well in a fancy Easter Egg.
Posted by: KT at April 12, 2025 11:27 AM (xekrU)

LOL. If it was sparkly, he'd make it fit.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at April 12, 2025 11:33 AM (g8Ew8)

23 The photo at the top looks like Salisbury Cathedral. I have taken a photo of the same window.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at April 12, 2025 11:34 AM (+XoFr)

24 Liberace was and still is America's favorite flaming queen. And he did it without forcing his lifestyle onto children and others. He was queer as a three dollar bill, but, man, he could put on a show.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at April 12, 2025 11:22 AM (g8Ew

He never acknowledge it, always claimed to not be. But, he was called Mr. Showmanship for a reason.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 12, 2025 11:35 AM (0eaVi)

25 Liberace, responding to the "rumors" he was queer. "I cry all the way to the bank".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 12, 2025 11:35 AM (gm9Sb)

26 I've often wondered why Easter wasn't a bigger holiday than Christmas.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 12, 2025 11:26 AM (W/lyH)

Santa has better p.r.

But seriously, to the extent we're talking about the commercialism, being that Christmas is part of the Department Store Industrial Complex, and Easter is just Big Candy, it's really no contest.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 12, 2025 11:35 AM (rEPmj)

27 Western Easter Sunday and Orthodox Easter Sunday are both of April 20th this year!

Posted by: m at April 12, 2025 11:35 AM (CQE5S)

28 He never acknowledge it, always claimed to not be. But, he was called Mr. Showmanship for a reason.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 12, 2025 11:35 AM (0eaVi)

Tom Cruise doesn't acknowledge it either.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 12, 2025 11:36 AM (rEPmj)

29 I've often wondered why Easter wasn't a bigger holiday than Christmas.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 12, 2025 11:26 AM (W/lyH)

Harder to shoehorn secular things into it. No Japanese Col. Sanders for Easter.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 12, 2025 11:36 AM (0eaVi)

30 I've often wondered why Easter wasn't a bigger holiday than Christmas.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 12, 2025 11:26 AM
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Because they don't have a Black Friday Sales event 5 weeks prior?

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 12, 2025 11:37 AM (hoCmQ)

31 Tom Cruise doesn't acknowledge it either.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 12, 2025 11:36 AM (rEPmj)

I was his beard!!!

Posted by: Rosie O at April 12, 2025 11:38 AM (0eaVi)

32 Tom Cruise doesn't acknowledge it either.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 12, 2025 11:36 AM (rEPmj)

I was her beard!!!

Posted by: Tom C at April 12, 2025 11:39 AM (0eaVi)

33 >>>Did Westminster Abbey do better than that school?

I thought that was pretty good!

Posted by: m at April 12, 2025 11:39 AM (CQE5S)

34 There’s nothing open in my town on Easter other than the churches and bars.

Posted by: pawn at April 12, 2025 11:40 AM (b86bK)

35 I hear there's gonna be a guest post today!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 12, 2025 11:41 AM (0eaVi)

36 Because they don't have a Black Friday Sales event 5 weeks prior?
Posted by: olddog in mo at April 12, 2025 11:37 AM (hoCmQ)

Yeah, just three days before is bad business.

They should move Good Friday to somewhere around Groundhog Day, combine the two. It would be easy. Does the rodent see the shadow of the cross?

Yes means six more weeks until Easter!

Posted by: BurtTC at April 12, 2025 11:42 AM (rEPmj)

37 There’s nothing open in my town on Easter other than the churches and bars.

One wonders if there's a connection between the family time at Easter and the bars.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 12, 2025 11:42 AM (xCA6C)

38 There’s nothing open in my town on Easter other than the churches and bars.
Posted by: pawn at April 12, 2025 11:40 AM (b86bK)

I guess that tracks. You go to the first and spend time on your knees, then you go to the second and spend time on your knees afterward at home.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 12, 2025 11:43 AM (0eaVi)

39 I guess that tracks. You go to the first and spend time on your knees, then you go to the second and spend time on your knees afterward at home.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 12, 2025 11:43 AM (0eaVi)

One more of those ways people should have known Covid was bullshit. Keep the bars open, you can't have a bunch of drunks going through withdrawals on us.

Better they should die from the Chinaflu.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 12, 2025 11:47 AM (rEPmj)

40 OrangeEnt is that a hint?

Posted by: Skip at April 12, 2025 11:48 AM (ypFCm)

41 Love that top photo. Stained glass done like that is a wonder and, literally, awe-inspiring.

Posted by: JTB at April 12, 2025 11:57 AM (yTvNw)

42 40 OrangeEnt is that a hint?
Posted by: Skip at April 12, 2025 11:48 AM (ypFCm)

Ha! A poem:

OrangeEnt,
Is that a hint?

Posted by: m at April 12, 2025 11:59 AM (CQE5S)

43 Christians showed up outside a school to protest after the headteacher decided to cancel Easter to instead celebrate 'refugee week.'

I do marketing and when I just got an assignment to promote something for spring break I changed it to Easter break.

Posted by: kallisto at April 12, 2025 12:00 PM (dCxaZ)

44 Stained glass done like that is a wonder and, literally,

stained glass windows in Catholic churches depicted scenes from Our Lord's life that wouldn't have been readily available to the congregation due to many of them being illiterate

it was sort of a Sunday school lesson

Posted by: kallisto at April 12, 2025 12:02 PM (dCxaZ)

45 OrangeEnt is that a hint?
Posted by: Skip at April 12, 2025 11:48 AM (ypFCm)

Not for me, but someone I know. Be sure to read before the ONT!

(I think that's when it posts)

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 12, 2025 12:02 PM (0eaVi)

46 I don't know if it is wishful thinking on my part but as the popularity of the traditional Latin mass increases I notice, generally, more awareness and joy in Lent and the Easter seasons. Just an impression I'm getting.

Posted by: JTB at April 12, 2025 12:03 PM (yTvNw)

47
I do marketing and when I just got an assignment to promote something for spring break I changed it to Easter break.
Posted by: kallisto at April 12, 2025 12:00 PM (dCxaZ)

Spring break in my town was 2 weeks ago. It’s not always correlated with Easter.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 12, 2025 12:04 PM (xHYkz)

48 Eric Swalwell uses a bullhorn to address the masses.

https://shorturl.at/zdpNL

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 12, 2025 12:08 PM (L/fGl)

49 Easter is not about chocolate eggs and bunnies. It is about our risen savior and King of Kings.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 12, 2025 12:09 PM (RKzci)

50 There are many sites that have instructions on how to have a Messianic Passover Seder. It is a nice way to have a Christian family activity with no electronic distractions. It is pleasing to know what was going on when Christ had the Last Supper.

Posted by: Delurk Ergo Sum at April 12, 2025 12:12 PM (fI8lb)

51 I've often wondered why Easter wasn't a bigger holiday than Christmas.

I have always wondered that as well, and aside from the obvious commercial aspects (Christmas did not used to be such a huge deal before Dickens and the big NY stores making it an event), I think the scene from Talladega Nights where the character says he prefers baby Jesus plays a part.

Cute baby Jesus in a manger surrounded by animals and shepherds is a lot more appealing to the general public than Jesus triumphant rising from the grave. One is emotionally pleasing but the other has... consequences.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 12, 2025 12:13 PM (RKzci)

52 My folks used to get a small ham and a small turkey breast for Easter. Some Easters it'd be so warm it was almost like a picnic. Other times it was frigidly cold, maybe snow on the ground.

Christmas and Easter were about the only times the whole family got together.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 12, 2025 12:13 PM (Q4IgG)

53 44 "Stained glass windows are the Bible, written in light." -- some smart person whose name I forget

Posted by: callsign claymore at April 12, 2025 12:14 PM (h3cA2)

54 Easter.
Making Christmas relevant for over 2000 years.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 12, 2025 12:14 PM (dg+HA)

55 This time of year mom made the best ricotta pie.

I miss her so much!

Posted by: kallisto at April 12, 2025 12:16 PM (dCxaZ)

56 Christmas and Easter were about the only times the whole family got together.

My family got together every birthday, 4th of July, Christmas, and Thanksgiving. I grew up just assuming that's how it was: everyone knew each other and was really close, we all got along really well. We'd go to parks 2 hours away just for a picnic together and a chance to celebrate someone's birthday.

I've slowly learned that far too few families do anything of the sort and sadly as that older generation passes on, the younger doesn't want anything to do with all that hassle.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 12, 2025 12:17 PM (RKzci)

57 The Chosen.

Posted by: Come and see at April 12, 2025 12:20 PM (dg+HA)

58 And China is going to defeat us by banning this.

More Marvel Missteps: MCU’s New “Fantastic Four” Film to Explore Gender Politics

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 12, 2025 12:24 PM (L/fGl)

59 My guess is that FF will have Sue being powerful (as she is, in the comics) and they are really overplaying this because they think it will sell tickets. Up against another stupid dinosaur movie and Superman, I think FF is going to bomb.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 12, 2025 12:30 PM (RKzci)

60 THE FOURTH CUP by Dr. Scott Hann explains Christ's Paschal Sacrifice on the cross as the fulfillment of the traditional fourth cup used in the celebration of the Jewish Passover ... This is the cup of the Passover that Jesus refused at the Last Supper and later consumed while hanging from the Cross ... In this 55-minute audio presentation, Dr. Hahn (a former non-Catholic theologian) explains how the Mass echoes the Passover liturgy in many ways.

https://tinyurl.com/yv6ybykj

Posted by: Kathy at April 12, 2025 12:36 PM (qpw89)

61 More Marvel Missteps: MCU’s New “Fantastic Four” Film to Explore Gender Politics

Reed and Sue are gonna swap genders?

Posted by: Ian S. at April 12, 2025 12:38 PM (QZThv)

62 I love Liberace! So talented! I so wish he could have been allowed to come out in a time and manner of his own choosing, instead of being wrenched from his closet, his voice cracking, his cheeks crimson with shame.

Posted by: Lindsey Graham, Closeted Homosexual at April 12, 2025 12:38 PM (R/m4+)

63 And China is going to defeat us by banning this.

More Marvel Missteps: MCU’s New “Fantastic Four” Film to Explore Gender Politics

No, but it's going to get interesting when China cuts off access to medicines.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 12, 2025 12:41 PM (xCA6C)

64 The word "Easter" is in the KJV Bible, but it is a bad translation of "pascha", which is Passover.

Hard to say exactly how "Easter" became standard. There is the sun rising in the East, or a goddess "Eostre" (or "Ostara"). Then there is the vernal equinox marking an end to winter. Most of these can be interpreted as pointing to Jesus Christ being our Passover lamb, and new life for Christians.

(though some of those rituals probably had pagan roots, and were repurposed as part of the Christian narrative)

Posted by: illiniwek at April 12, 2025 12:41 PM (Cus5s)

65
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd5VVELfWC8

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 12, 2025 12:47 PM (lCWOD)

66 Good for Lowe's! We've gotten to the point where if we don't affirmatively acknowledge Christian traditions we are not going to survive. Used to be that "live and let live" was adequate but the culture-destroyers have gotten too aggressive and now we need to stand our ground.

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at April 12, 2025 12:49 PM (Sf2cq)

67 (though some of those rituals probably had pagan roots, and were repurposed as part of the Christian narrative)
Posted by: illiniwek
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When Constantine combined Christians and Sun worshipers from the west. "Eostre" (or "Ostara"). (estrus)

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 12, 2025 12:49 PM (lCWOD)

68 When they cut out Sunday blue laws was a turning.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 12, 2025 12:50 PM (lCWOD)

69 I love Liberace! So talented! I so wish he could have been allowed to come out in a time and manner of his own choosing, instead of being wrenched from his closet, his voice cracking, his cheeks crimson with shame.
Posted by: Lindsey Graham, Closeted Homosexual at April 12, 2025 12:38 PM (R/m4+)
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Yeah, and I can't believe Liberace was gay. I mean, women loved him, man. I didn't see that one coming. No.

Posted by: Austin Danger Powers at April 12, 2025 12:52 PM (6K6Eu)

70
No, but it's going to get interesting when China cuts off access to medicines.
Posted by: Archimedes
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I think Xi knows that's a bridge too far. Hopefully some enterprising chemists are seeking financial backing and tax breaks to build factories.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 12, 2025 12:54 PM (lCWOD)

71 As a kid, Pa had blue laws so lots of places were closed

Posted by: Skip at April 12, 2025 12:57 PM (ypFCm)

72 stained glass windows in Catholic churches depicted scenes from Our Lord's life that wouldn't have been readily available to the congregation due to many of them being illiterate

it was sort of a Sunday school lesson
Posted by: kallisto at April 12, 2025 12:02 PM (dCxaZ)
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They're long gone now, but the big European cathedrals also had colorful murals on the walls depicting Bible stories and/or the lives of various saints.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 12, 2025 12:58 PM (6K6Eu)

73 Interesting. Now I know where "paska" bread got its name.

Posted by: Rabid Moroccan Donkey with a ruptured asshole at April 12, 2025 12:58 PM (Ggf4s)

74 17 I've often wondered why Easter wasn't a bigger holiday than Christmas.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 12, 2025 11:26 AM (W/lyH)

He had to be born in order to die for us.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 12, 2025 11:28 AM (2J/Lj)
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I get that. God's gift to us was his Son. But I have felt that it was the resurrection and life eternal through Jesus that was the ultimate gift.
Maybe the birth of Jesus was kinda like opening gifts on Christmas Eve...

Posted by: Diogenes at April 12, 2025 12:58 PM (W/lyH)

75 72 stained glass windows in Catholic churches depicted scenes from Our Lord's life that wouldn't have been readily available to the congregation due to many of them being illiterate

it was sort of a Sunday school lesson
Posted by: kallisto at April 12, 2025 12:02 PM (dCxaZ)
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They're long gone now, but the big European cathedrals also had colorful murals on the walls depicting Bible stories and/or the lives of various saints.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 12, 2025 12:58 PM (6K6Eu)
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When I was stationed in Turkey (Sinop) there was an old crumbled down church dating back to the 6th or 7th century. The only thing left standing were several walls. Most of it had been buried but digging out some of the walls revealed several murals of Christ and the Disciples. The Turks abandoned the dig after that. I was impressed by how well the colors had stood up to time.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 12, 2025 01:04 PM (W/lyH)

76 How beautiful those stained glass windows are

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 12, 2025 01:09 PM (Tw+JN)

77 >>> 66 Good for Lowe's! We've gotten to the point where if we don't affirmatively acknowledge Christian traditions we are not going to survive. Used to be that "live and let live" was adequate but the culture-destroyers have gotten too aggressive and now we need to stand our ground.
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at April 12, 2025 12:49 PM (Sf2cq)

Every so often Glenn Reynolds will post a nighttime picture of NYC in the mid-50s in which several of the skyscrapers have office lights set on or off to portray a cross.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 12, 2025 01:13 PM (Vqx30)

78 When Constantine combined Christians and Sun worshipers from the west. "Eostre" (or "Ostara"). (estrus)

this term only applies in the Anglosphere though

most of the globe uses different word for easter, for instance the romance languages term for the holy day refers to the paschal lamb.

Posted by: kallisto at April 12, 2025 01:13 PM (dCxaZ)

79 Noticed any differences this year? Yes, people are more thankful, more reverent.

Posted by: Eromero at April 12, 2025 01:15 PM (LHPAg)

80 At 5:25 a.m. Saturday, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launched the NROL-192 mission from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

This was the 24th flight for the first stage booster supporting this mission, which previously launched NROL-87, NROL-85, SARah-1, SWOT, Transporter-8, Transporter-9, NROL-146, Bandwagon-2, NROL-153 and 14 Starlink missions.

-- > The launch kicked off the NROL-192 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), which builds and operates the United States' fleet of spy satellites.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 12, 2025 01:16 PM (lCWOD)

81 >>> 70
No, but it's going to get interesting when China cuts off access to medicines.
Posted by: Archimedes
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I think Xi knows that's a bridge too far. Hopefully some enterprising chemists are seeking financial backing and tax breaks to build factories.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 12, 2025 12:54 PM (lCWOD)

I would not put much confidence in Xi or anyone else in the CCP having limits on fcking with us. They may prefer a different moment, but it will be all about what they can do with minimal consequences to them.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 12, 2025 01:17 PM (Vqx30)

82 On China, keep reading they are sliding downhill fast according to lots of articles I read. Aging fast, they produce crap for themselves as well so military hardware isn't as great as it looks.
And my opinion they had a chance when their man was in the big house and they didn't move so now is past their best chance.

Posted by: Skip at April 12, 2025 01:19 PM (ypFCm)

83 faith-related from the prayer thread:

288 White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt prays before facing reporters

https://tinyurl.com/yv8n6whr
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 12, 2025 10:53 AM (dg+HA)

Posted by: m at April 12, 2025 01:20 PM (CQE5S)

84
I would not put much confidence in Xi or anyone else in the CCP having limits on fcking with us. They may prefer a different moment, but it will be all about what they can do with minimal consequences to them.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
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Probably about the time they learn to make watertight hatches on their ships.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 12, 2025 01:21 PM (lCWOD)

85 >>> 84
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Probably about the time they learn to make watertight hatches on their ships.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 12, 2025 01:21 PM (lCWOD)

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 12, 2025 01:32 PM (Vqx30)

86 @ 84

You'll know when you notice the absence of screen doors on the subs.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at April 12, 2025 01:33 PM (hKoQL)

87 NOOD

flowers and stuff!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 12, 2025 01:38 PM (Vqx30)

88 >>I would not put much confidence in Xi or anyone else in the CCP having limits on fcking with us. They may prefer a different moment, but it will be all about what they can do with minimal consequences to them.

New sheriff in town. And this one happens to love this country as much as we do. That's one thing the left has never understood. But Xi does.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 12, 2025 01:40 PM (LkLld)

89 https://instapundit.com/713979/

CHANGE: Matt Taibbi: Burn it all Down. Globalization, once hailed as a panacea, has proven to be fundamentally corrupt and needs to be blown to kingdom come. [link] "Everyone who follows this site knows I've always had an uncomfortable relationship with the Trump phenomenon. At the best of times, I find him puzzling and maybe dangerous, even when he's being funny or taking aim at deserving targets. Now he's president and people seem reflexively to want more criticism of him, but on this issue, what choice is there? The global economy created by both parties from the eighties onward was not only designed to be a giant predatory clusterfuck, but nearly impossible to unwind. Forget 'incrementally,' it's got to be exploded. Would more of the same and a slow death be better?"

Some things can't be done incrementally.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 12, 2025 01:42 PM (Vqx30)

90 >>Some things can't be done incrementally.

Wisdom often comes from the least expected places.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 12, 2025 01:47 PM (LkLld)

91 I am sure like out Deep State, other countries are shoveling money to their own Leftists

Posted by: Skip at April 12, 2025 02:06 PM (ypFCm)

92 Last Gasp of the Landfill Economy
https://shorturl.at/4FvXQ
Of Two Minds (Charles Hugh Smith)

ZH has these two articles posted consecutively:

Finland Bans Russians From Buying Property As Zelensky Says 'Hatred' For Them Is Justified
https://shorturl.at/DXxza

Sweden: The Number Of Mosques Has Surged Nearly 4,200% In Just 25 Years
https://shorturl.at/uyVg6

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 12, 2025 03:18 PM (Vqx30)

93 Ah, Notre Dame. I still think the Muslim work crew purposely set that fire. Too many other churches in France were torched in that time frame, never mind priests murdered.

Truly miraculous that more damage wasn't done. Taking down t he world's most famous cathedral would've been quite the feather in the Islamic kafiya.

There's an absolutely stunning picture of the main altar, iirc, shining, glowing really, in the aftermath.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 12, 2025 03:33 PM (Vvh2V)

94 20 The Westminster Abbey sure didn't want to intimidate anyone with a guy in clerical garb.
Posted by: KT at April 12, 2025 11:31 AM (xekrU)

Well, it was aimed at kids. I kid, I kid. I liked it. He was engaging and fun while getting the message across.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at April 12, 2025 05:12 PM (lg881)

95 The photo of the stained glass reminded me of a story I heard at one of my local churches.

It seems one of the items killing churches are the stain glass windows. Not directly, but the insurance that churches must have to cover these irreplaceable windows is a major burden to so many churches. Often these windows are worth more than the rest of the property.

Posted by: SMOD at April 12, 2025 08:18 PM (GITLP)

96 So the full moon is today, so Easter SHOULD be tomorrow. A few hundred years ago it was determined that the official (Ecclesiastical) date of the full moon is the 17th. I love traditions!

Posted by: Bob Read at April 13, 2025 12:17 AM (sJCqb)

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