How do you acknowledge Easter.

I live in Spain where Easter is always celebrated as it’s mainly a catholic country. We watched The holy procession which takes around 5 hours starting at 7pm on Good Friday and is amazing. As many as 50 men carry just one icon (and there are so many of them). Little children dressed up and giving out sweets to the crowd and the bands with the slow beating of the drum so melancholy. It was a sight to behold.

Memories. Growing up with many traditions for Holy Week and Easter - a new dress each year and hats, church, coloring eggs, baking, chocolates, tulips, ham dinner on Easter Sunday with family. Spring a time for renewal.

Now, still meaningful, but I’m with friends for Easter brunch as family lives in another state.

The European Catholics and orthodox Christians are much more celebratory. So many lovely and splendid events. It’s a very muted observance in uk. A pity

Skye17

Callistemon (the GN website won’t let me quote your post), I googled the 4th century papyrus. According to Wikipedia, the present consensus among scholars is that it was probably forged.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Jesus%27_Wife

Oh dear, perhaps not a surprise.
But if so, it's a clever forgery.

Has anyone read the Lost Books of the Bible?

Yes, all family I hope will come to church, especially as I done the Easter Garden in the porch and our flower team have made a great effort decorating birthday church for Eadter Sunday.27 of us for lunch at my sister in laws, I'm doing the roast potatoes..! 7 kids and 20 adults, 70+ yr old to 25 Yr old age range and kids , young babies to 11 Yr old!

Fish on Good Friday, and hot cross buns. A solemn church service in the afternoon. On Sunday we will go to church in the morning and have a roast dinner. DS2 and family are coming on Monday to help eat the giant 9lb Easter egg I have won in a local competition.

Callistemon (the GN website won’t let me quote your post), I googled the 4th century papyrus. According to Wikipedia, the present consensus among scholars is that it was probably forged.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Jesus%27_Wife

I’m sorry iam64

💐 Iam64

Apologies - that should say we never ate meat on Good Friday -always fish. Emotion and a painful shoulder led me astray

I grew up C of E but we never ate fish on Good Friday- we walked up Holcomb Hill and came home to fried fish (bought fresh that morning on Bury market) and home made chips. We were ravenous after climbing what dad referred to as ‘that bliddy hill’ so mum spent ages making more chips.

I’m going to Church in the morning. Very mixed emotions about what in the Christian calendar is a day of hope. It’s just q years since my lovely husband was enduring daily endless investigations , which confirmed he would die within 6 months. He did. Rip my lovely boy 💙

I'm eating way too much food and need to pack it in really but I've just ordered a chinese take out^

Me too, it was going so well until yesterday.
Hot Cross buns, fish pie
Celebration cake now a curry.
Out tomorrow, taking pudding ......

I'm not religious but we always have fish on Good Friday

I will do a roast on Sunday (daughter home for a few days) and my parents are visiting Easter Monday so I'll doa buffet

I'm eating way too much food a d need to pack it in really but I've just ordered a chinese take out

Grandmabatty, same as me!

Absolutely nothing other than a small gift to 2 DGC but no egg or anything related to Easter. Gone are the days of decorating a hard boiled egg and rolling it down a hill.

Nannan2

Calistemon- never heard that about Mary Magdeline being Jesus' wife-? And i'm catholic.My late mother & grandma more than i.But they never mentioned her as that at all.So no ive never heard anyone in our churches say it either.She was a prostitute of sorts i believe, a 'fallen woman' but Jesus befriended her and forgave her sins.If you dont wish to bible read then watch the epic movie- the one with Robert something or other is great.Cant remember his name but he has stunning blue eyes.andsuch a stage presence in this.

A scrap of papyrus dating from the 4th Century does mention that Jesus had a wife.
Of course, if this were proved to be true, then centuries of Roman Catholic traditions would be challenged, including the requirement for priests to be celibate as they claim Jesus was.

A family celebration for us this weekend with the children and grandchildren including an Easter egg hunt and a roast lamb dinner. Due to location, we are not all together very often so every meet up is special.

We went to Mass on Thursday evening and yesterday afternoon and will go to the Easter Vigil this evening and Mass on Easter Sunday. No entertaining on Sunday but husband will have roasted chicken pieces and I (vegetarian) will have asparagus quiche, which is cooking in the oven now. We will haveroast potatoes, home-made mint sauce, purple sproting broccoli and then individual home-made steamed puddings and custard. After dinner we'll watch the last Death in Paradise, with the indulgent dark chocolate egg we bought ourselves. We took Easter eggs to my middle daughter and SiL, and Lindt bunnies for the kids (they are holidaying in Yorkshire this week. It's a mixture of religious and secular celebrating for us.

Small gift and chocs for adult children and that will be it this year, no energy to invite anyone, shop, cook, clear away ..and received no invite so that' s fine.

There are two Marys.
One the Mother of Jesus, Blessed Virgin Mary.
The other Mary Magdalene who came from Magdala, and had the devil cast out of her.

We always ate fish on Fridays when I was growing up and we weren’t Catholic. I believe that the Catholic Church allowed chicken to be eaten at one time instead of fish.

Fish on Good Friday as always but out of habit rather than any religious feelings. Easter buns have been in the shops for months now and will probably have one or two but otherwise no different a wknd to any other for me.

Witzend in answer to your question about finding a chicken embryo in an egg..... Yes, I have. It was my first Christmas as a married woman. Early 1960's. I was making a Christmas cake. When I cracked the first egg, there inside was a fully grown chick.
Our eggs were free range from a local farm. I buried the chick in the garden.

Nothing religious as I don’t subscribe to any religion. So, essentially just another weekend, although I do like to celebrate the onset of Spring. When I was teaching we always used to go abroad on holiday during the Easter break but, now I’m retired we can avoid school holidays👏

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)

Most of the eggs sold in grocers shops /supermarkets are reared in poultry farms and the eggs have not been fertilised.

Sorry, "roast lamb"!