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Post by normabanana on Apr 4, 2015 13:18:40 GMT
I do not know when is Easter Day in western countries like U.S or U.K. The day in South Korea is tomorrow, so we will celebrate it at Presbyterian or Methodist churches.
No! I will not. Will not celebrate Easter Day even though will receive pretty eggs at the church. Used to enjoy it, but now do not.
How about you?
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Post by Fritz on Apr 4, 2015 13:38:09 GMT
Tomorrow is Easter in the Roman Catholic and most Western protestant churches.
It is not Easter for Eastern Christianity (Greek, Russian, etc.). They follow the Julian Calendar.
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Post by normabanana on Apr 4, 2015 15:47:13 GMT
Tomorrow is Easter in the Roman Catholic and most Western protestant churches. It is not Easter for Eastern Christianity (Greek, Russian, etc.). They follow the Julian Calendar. I get to see the new information about Eastern Christinity thanks to you. Do you know Easter Day does not originate from Original Christianity?
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Post by Fritz on Apr 4, 2015 16:08:17 GMT
Yes, the earliest Christians were mostly Jewish converts. They celebrated the resurrection of Christ to coincide with the Jewish holiday of Passover, set by the ancient Hebrew calendar. Over the centuries, the various branches of Christianity adopted different calendars (Gregorian and Julian) and rules for setting the date.
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Post by moderator on Apr 4, 2015 17:24:51 GMT
I'll be celebrating with my family (after going with my mom to church) - and I ate all the candy Easter grass this week.
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Post by dash on Apr 4, 2015 17:38:26 GMT
No! I will not. Will not celebrate Easter Day even though will receive pretty eggs at the church. Used to enjoy it, but now do not.
Why do you not enjoy celebrating Easter anymore?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2015 17:53:05 GMT
We're actually celebrating it tonight with a meal because Keith has to work tomorrow. So we are all driving to see Neil at college and have a nice restaurant meal in his college town. We may or may not stay at a hotel, if we do we will probably leave early tomorrow morning. Neil plays the organ in a Nazarene church on Sundays anyway.
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Post by Fritz on Apr 4, 2015 20:52:30 GMT
Here's a bit of Easter-related trivia... Why is called "Good Friday"? The explanation comes from my old college roommate, Dave Wilton, who is an etymologist (someone who studies word origins): Good Friday is the day that Christians commemorate the crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ, which leads many people to ask “what’s so ‘good’ about it?” That’s a fair question, and the answer is that "good" has been used to designate a number of religious holidays. In Old and Middle English, the adjective god (good) could mean ‘pious, devout, morally perfect,’ so the good in Good Friday is a linguistic relic meaning ‘holy.’
English isn’t the only language to use a word meaning ‘good’ in this way. There is the Dutch Goede Vrijdag, dating to at least 1240, and the German guter Freitag, dating to the same period. In Anglo-Norman, the dialect of French spoken in post-Conquest England, the day was called Bon Venderdy, attested to prior to 1321, and in fourteenth century Anglo-Latin it was bonus dies Veneris. (The Jewish holy days are also called yom tov, a Yiddish alteration of the Hebrew yom (day) + tob (good), but this term would appear to be part of a separate tradition, not appearing in English usage until the nineteenth century.)
But the earliest English use of good to refer to a religious holiday is older than these other languages, found in the Confessional and Penitential of Ecgbert, Archbishop of York. Ecgbert was an eighth century cleric, but the work is almost certainly falsely ascribed to him and written sometime later. It’s found in the manuscript Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 190, which was copied in the mid eleventh century. This penitential uses goden tide (good tide) to refer to Lent:
Þonne hafa þu rihtne geleafan to Gode & to þysse godan tide & geornne beo betende þæs þu wite þæt þu geworht hæbbe mid þinum fæstene & mid þinre ælmyssan & mid þinum gebedum þe þu betst cunne & ælce Sunnandæg to cyrcan cum & þær georne for þe sylfne gebide & for eall gefullod folc & for þinne scrift þonne byst þu on ure eallra gebedrædene.
(When you have a correct faith regarding God and regarding this good tide and are earnestly atoning for what you have thought and what you have done with your fast, and with your alms, and with your prayers that you know best, and come to church each Sunday, and there pray earnestly for yourself and for all baptized people, and because of your confession, then you shall be in the prayers of us all.)
(Some references define godan tide as ‘shrovetide,’ or the three days immediately preceding Lent, ending on Ash Wednesday, but the use of ælce Sunnandæg (every Sunday) here indicates a longer period, that of Lent itself.)
There is no record of the Anglo-Saxons using god to refer specifically to the day of the crucifixion. Instead, that day was referred to as langa frigadæg (long Friday), probably a reference to the fasting and long religious services held on the day. This usage disappeared in the early Middle English period, being replaced by Good Friday, which is attested to about the same time as its cognates appear in the other European languages. Good Friday appears in the South English Legendary, a collection of saints’ lives, written before 1300. The term quickly caught on and became the standard name for the holiday.
So Good Friday is ‘holy Friday,’ and we’ve been calling it that since the twelfth century, although the use of good to refer to holy days in general is even older. Source: Wordorigins.org
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Post by normabanana on Apr 5, 2015 2:09:23 GMT
No! I will not. Will not celebrate Easter Day even though will receive pretty eggs at the church. Used to enjoy it, but now do not.
Why do you not enjoy celebrating Easter anymore? According to Bible, Apostles did not celebrate it. And Easter originate from heathenism.
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Post by dash on Apr 5, 2015 2:26:08 GMT
Why do you not enjoy celebrating Easter anymore? According to Bible, Apostles did not celebrate it. And Easter originate from heathenism. I see. Yes, some of the things that go along with Easter did originate in ancient non-Christian fertility rites, etc. And then there is the commercialism also (in the U.S. anyway). I guess Easter is like Christmas, or any other holiday—it's what you make of it.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2015 3:12:17 GMT
Easter is mentioned in Acts 14:12, but not in a good light.
Over time my feelings on the holidays of Christmas and Easter have changed. These are, at least, two days where many people who rarely give a thought to God might actually get their rumps up out of bed on those Sundays and go to a church and actually hear the gospel. I know in our mega church we have TONS of people coming down to the altar on those two days to commit themselves to Christ. When I sit there I pray for them like mad and I often tear up when I see whole families come up to the altar. To me it's like taking lemons, something acidic, and turning it around and making sweet lemonade out of it.
So yup, these holidays have their foundations in ancient Babylonian holidays and rites, but why not take something ugly and turn it into something sweet instead? Bible says sometimes to get the gospel to people we, Christians, have to be "wise as serpents" as well as "harmless as doves". (Matthew 10:16). Isn't it being "wise as serpents" to use these "holidays" to get strangers to Christ to fall in love with Him instead?
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Post by normabanana on Apr 5, 2015 15:28:02 GMT
Actually I decide to follow Bible, but love Christmas trees and songs ironically. Some scholars insisted that Christmas trees and Easter eggs originated from Non-Christinity.
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Post by Fritz on Apr 5, 2015 15:41:34 GMT
Actually I decide to follow Bible, but love Christmas trees and songs ironically. Some scholars insisted that Christmas trees and Easter eggs originated from Non-Christinity. Yes, they were European pagan traditions adopted by Christianity. Christmas, itself, was originally a pagan holiday. The early church co-opted the date of December 25 to celebrate the birth of Jesus, since no one really knows the actual date of his birth.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2015 18:06:54 GMT
You are following Bible when you adorn your life with beautiful things, like a Christmas tree or decorated eggs. Just like it's not sinful to hang a beautiful painting in your house. Everything comes down to the heart attitude. If you are treating these things as idols then it's sinful, but just to decorate your house with lovely things and to look at them happily is not sinful at all.
"Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things." Philippians 4:8
Christmas trees with lights are lovely. Decorating eggs with your children is lovely. We no longer live in ancient Babylonian times, so fill your life with beauty.
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Post by moderator on Apr 5, 2015 20:18:45 GMT
Happy Easter, everybody! They were singing this Spanish song, Resucitó at the end of church today, and I thought you guys might enjoy hearing it (they played it on piano instead in the church):
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