Post by gruntal on Apr 12, 2019 20:34:51 GMT
Going to a Christian church I sort of endured the annual plight of attending the Sunday meeting at Easter when a number of people were there. Some of us were there every week but some you rarely if ever saw. Those that weren't still had a guilty conscience that begged for at least a token effort to be nice loyal Christians at least once a year and attend services. It also was a chance for the girls to buy and wear new Easter outfits.
The next day all the Easter candy was marked down half price so you could eat as much chocolate as your diabetes would allow! That might be a good dessert for the big ham dinner the day before.
Since a lot of the world was becoming more secular there were actually TWO Easters. Once was the traditional religious observation surrounding the death of the Messiah and the other was mostly children's fairy tails about bunnies laying eggs. All that probably came from ancient pagan beliefs and rituals that simply observed the seasons and thought Spring was a natural time to celebrate birth and rebirth.
Easter did have one claim to fame: it was a genuine holiday that never seemed to die out despite the fact no one that I know got the day off from work. Because Easter always came on a Sunday and that wasn't much a working day to begin with.
In modern times people really dispersed and fragmented and abandoned a lot of tradition. Also governments were more and more hesitant to even recognize anything religious because it caused arguments and law suits. If they did there were still riots if some of the crowd saw things in a different way. In some respects that was good. You could wear the hat and eat the hot cross buns in public and not get into trouble. When you got home and pulled down the curtains the real fun could begin.
The real meaning of Easter - like the Messiah - was strictly an individual thing that was different for each individual. No Easter parade no show maybe little or no ritual. It might be a good excuse to reunite with friends and family and eat lunch. But as the Rosicrucians know everything goes in cycles and when things begin to unthaw and bloom it suggests life is going on and it's time to celebrate the unending cycle of all that is that will never end.
Not to mention that was the one time of the year you could safely wear pink and purple ....
The next day all the Easter candy was marked down half price so you could eat as much chocolate as your diabetes would allow! That might be a good dessert for the big ham dinner the day before.
Since a lot of the world was becoming more secular there were actually TWO Easters. Once was the traditional religious observation surrounding the death of the Messiah and the other was mostly children's fairy tails about bunnies laying eggs. All that probably came from ancient pagan beliefs and rituals that simply observed the seasons and thought Spring was a natural time to celebrate birth and rebirth.
Easter did have one claim to fame: it was a genuine holiday that never seemed to die out despite the fact no one that I know got the day off from work. Because Easter always came on a Sunday and that wasn't much a working day to begin with.
In modern times people really dispersed and fragmented and abandoned a lot of tradition. Also governments were more and more hesitant to even recognize anything religious because it caused arguments and law suits. If they did there were still riots if some of the crowd saw things in a different way. In some respects that was good. You could wear the hat and eat the hot cross buns in public and not get into trouble. When you got home and pulled down the curtains the real fun could begin.
The real meaning of Easter - like the Messiah - was strictly an individual thing that was different for each individual. No Easter parade no show maybe little or no ritual. It might be a good excuse to reunite with friends and family and eat lunch. But as the Rosicrucians know everything goes in cycles and when things begin to unthaw and bloom it suggests life is going on and it's time to celebrate the unending cycle of all that is that will never end.
Not to mention that was the one time of the year you could safely wear pink and purple ....
