How do you acknowledge Easter.

Do all these food rules have biblical connotations?

And I shall make hard-boiledl eggs in mustard sauce tomorrow, Easter Saturday - an old tradition that most people have forgotten, but a truly delicious dish

My stepfather mentioned ‘old way’ dishes yesterday when he was a lad. .. the famous Scottish mutton pie, now replaced by the ubiquitous beef pie.

Why can you eat a poor old fishes flesh and not chicken ? I could understand a bit more if you couldn’t eat any living creature but why’s a cows life worth more than a salmons

merlotgran

DGD, a year 5 teacher, told me this morning that when telling the Easter story during assembly, they referred to Mary Magdalene as Jesus’s best friend.

At which point a boy at the back called out,

‘Alright, Mary?’ 😂

Salmon for me tonight.

😃

Of course, many people believe she was also his wife.

DGD, a year 5 teacher, told me this morning that when telling the Easter story during assembly, they referred to Mary Magdalene as Jesus’s best friend.

At which point a boy at the back called out,

‘Alright, Mary?’ 😂

Salmon for me tonight.

Aha!
I suspected as much

No, I'm mean.

Oh that sounds nice.
Any crisps on the side, as a garnish?

MissAdventure

Poor sod.

He did get fed, he had a lovely Stilton and salad sandwich instead.

Poor sod.

We're having fish tonight too.

DH said he thought he'd have a pasty for lunch, I told him he couldn't - it's meat and it's Good Friday.

I've no idea why though? Is it something to do with an old decree of the Catholic church? Or something to do with a fish being the secret sign for Christians?

We usually have the stations of the Cross on Good Friday at 3pm. I haven’t been. Son has invited me and his parents-in-law for tea .

Have just returned from a Good Friday service.

A lot of hymns (8 or 9, didn’t know some, but My Song Of Love Unknown is a favourite of mine), plus the vicar reading Bible passages in between.

Felt quite meaningful, actually enjoyed it much more than some other GF services, pleased I went.

Went to church last night. It fell to me to decorate the side altar for a quiet vigil after the service. I am a bung it in a vase sort of person and was a bit nervous that my display would all fall apart. It didn’t and here is a photo. It’s in my sitting room now as the altar has to be stripped down for the rest of the weekend.
I will go out and watch the cross being carried into the church on its way to Walsingham. We are on the stations of the cross route.
We are having fish tonight too!

CrazyH I don’t eat meat or fish and don’t enjoy chocolate so I m ok then 😀

I wasn’t thinking of actually incubating shop bought eggs MisInterpreted 🤣 but you are all talking about it being a gesture to not eat meat on Fridays and Good Friday so I was wondering why we then eat eggs which are the symbol of a new life starting
Ah well never mind I know what I mean

Leaving in quarter of an hour for the 3.pm. service in church. Shall go to Mass on Sunday, am going out on Monday and a friend who could not come before is coming on Tuesday to eat roast leg of lamb etc.

And I shall make hard-boiledl eggs in mustard sauce tomorrow, Easter Saturday - an old tradition that most people have forgotten, but a truly delicious dish.

I deliver or send Easter eggs to family or friends .
The religious ones get a religious card and the others receive something secular
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I never eat meat on Fridays - despite being Protestant my family never has .
I was too wheezy to attend Maundy Thursday celebrations .
Tomorrow ,
I'm decorating the church .
Sunday - I'll be at the service .

Just broke my diet by eating a hot cross bun with butter.

Bluebelle - nanna8 - I also think it’s a symbolic gesture of a‘sacrifice’ - by giving up meat, you are giving up something that you like or enjoy. I know someone who gave up chocolates for the whole 40 days of Lent. Now, that is a sacrifice 😂

I don't understand it at all Caleo.

I acknowledge Easter by recalling of how the Doctrine of Atonement resembles the discarded doctrine of human sacrifice. The Doctrine of Atonement is one of the reasons I could not attend church. It is quite horrific.

Roast lamb dinner at my daughters on Sunday. Chocs and cards for my sister,daughter and a friend, no buns bought but will have fish tonight. Easter eggs for children in family.

MissInterpreted

BlueBelle

I still don’t really understand don’t eat animal meat (which isn’t human flesh) but we eat eggs which kills a baby chick !
( I m a vegi anyway but just interested)

Only eggs which have been fertilised will turn into chicks.

Dd has had rescue chickens for years now, and none of the hundreds of eggs they’ve laid have contained anything more than a yolk and a white.
Has anyone actually ever cracked an egg and found an embryo chick inside?

Grandmama

Ps to my earlier post. Every year I make a traditional Simnel cake for the DDs.

What a beautiful cake, Grandmama!

BlueBelle

I still don’t really understand don’t eat animal meat (which isn’t human flesh) but we eat eggs which kills a baby chick !
( I m a vegi anyway but just interested)

Only eggs which have been fertilised will turn into chicks.