Celtic...as I understand it, most all the Christian holidays are taken from pagan rituals. It was easier to merge the two and have the populas accept Christianity.

I celebrate the Resurrection but not Lent. Just wasn't brought up to even know what Lent was and now it doesn't seem to matter to me.

This is the first year in a while that the Protestant and Orthodox religions celebrate the Resurrection on the same Sunday.

I'm going to services on St. Martin this year and am hoping to take my friends with me.

The Easter basket is a tradition mostly, I think. We always put together toys, candy, fruit, crayons, coloring book, etc. and set the baskets up by their bedsides the night before Easter.

They would wake up on Easter morning to find them.

I have an Easter story. When my daughter, Alicia, was only one month old, she became suddenly very ill and wouldn't stop vomiting. I called the doctor who told me to rush her to the hospital.
They entered her in the hospital, this tiny, tiny little baby wrapped in a blanket and so ill. I was frantic, beside myself. I couldn't bear the thought of losing her. When she cried it sounded reedy and weak. I couldn't even hold her because I was overcome with fear, the fear of losing her.

A wonderful nurse came to sit with us and stayed until Alicia fell asleep. I couldn't sleep all night and prayed and prayed..with all my heart for her to live.

This was a Catholic hospital. This all happened on Easter Eve by the way. At dawn the next morning I saw the shadow of three crosses on the hospital room wall and was reminded of the love Christ has for my little one.

I felt that He told me she would be alright and He comforted me. She woke up and was much better. That's one Easter I'll never forget.

thata a nice tradition for the kids at easter time,....

hospitals especillie weer kids are sick and theirs worrie is always the place weer i had those types of experinces aswell. Its nice to be reasured especillie when we in deep need....

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hi not sure i meet you before but you obviouslie been around a fair bit...

yea the meging of fests dose make it easier for one set of people to accept another ideologie, especillie when they dont lose out on a fest...

I'm not even sure if the date we choose to celebrate the death and resurrection of Christ is chronologically correct. Probably not. But its a good time to celebrate and remember the sacrifice but more than that,to me, the example of eternal life and the promise of more to come for those of us who worship and serve.

dose it matter if it is chronoligically correct? probablie is not as it be hard to tell the time of year.....either way its not that important is it???? its more the point of the reserection thats cool,.....

and for none christions and those around nature based religions the turning of the year into a new phaze, also new life i gess...

either way its all good, isen't it??

Either way its good, I guess, different strokes and all that. Changing seasons are a good thing.

What's everyone doing for Easter?

We will attend church with our two kids (who will be home) and also my FIL. Then we're having brunch here for Ross's family. That's as far as we've gotten. Still trying to figure out how I'll see my family.

How about you?

Well, as far as I'm concerned the chronological date doesn't matter. I personally celebrate the "gift" everyday and in every way.

I don't know what we are going to do this year for Easter. Its next Sunday, so I'll probably be very tired from working all night. We'll go to church and out to eat and then whatever.

The only holiday my family really goes all out for is Christmas. The others are nice and some are for good reasons others are not, but we just roll with the flow and take the opportunity to get together as a family and celebrate our love for each other.

well might be going into the hart of county tyron, for po sister....if not then it be a sunday heer and might take l to a mass, as their nice for kiddies and adults but especillie nice for kiddies, well untill they give him chocolate..hmmm.. i will have to pin a note to his shirt saying DO NOT FEED CHOCO MONSTER.