He Is Risen

[owl]

Belated Happy Easter!
Even more belated happy Passover!
And the heathens who've been pigging out on eggs *passes toothbrush and bicarbonate of soda* < /tongue in cheek>

I don't much like the word 'Easter' anyway, for the same reason I don't like 'Sunday': pagan-ness. (We used to spell it 'Sonday' sometimes when we were small, and most people in our church call it the [Christian] Sabbath.) I'd rather have the Pasq- words of the Romance languages, because you can see the pesach in the root. And that's what it actually was; the ultimate, perfect all-sufficient paschal lamb. Perhaps Resurection-Day would be better?

The minister preached yesterday on the passage in 1 Corinthians about how a literal resurection is the centre of Christianity--take that away and you have nothing left. I don't know why these liberals bother even saying they're Christians when they don't believe any of it.

I usually feel sort of exalted on Easter days, but yesterday I didn't and tere was no point trying to manufacture emotions that are minor issues anyway. I prayed in the afternoon and felt sort of calm and stern and determined.

Oh, and my right ear is all bunged up and sore :(

Comments

[affabletoaster.livejournal.com]

Yeah, out last year in Canada a bishop got up on Easter Sunday morning and told us how the Resurrection wasn't literal and all this crap. It was a huge letdown. Like you said, it's the most central thing to Christianity, and if a leader is spouting crap like that. *cries* I'm glad he was just a visiting bishop, though I feel bad for the churches under his leadership, because Bishop Harvey is, well, Christian. It's nice to have 'em that way. >.>

Heh heh heh

[tabouli.livejournal.com]

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Re: Heh heh heh

[owl]

Oh, yes, HPFGU! I haven't been there in months...LJ is addictive. Thank ou! I love new stalkers :-p

Ha!

[tabouli.livejournal.com]

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Re: Ha!

[owl]

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[ravenclaw-devi.livejournal.com]

I don't much like the word 'Easter' anyway, for the same reason I don't like 'Sunday': pagan-ness. (We used to spell it 'Sonday' sometimes when we were small, and most people in our church call it the [Christian] Sabbath.) I'd rather have the Pasq- words of the Romance languages, because you can see the pesach in the root. And that's what it actually was; the ultimate, perfect all-sufficient paschal lamb. Perhaps Resurection- Day would be better?

Believe it or not - that's what I thought about, too - that it'd be good if we had a Christian word for Easter, like "Resurrection Day" or something.

But with the word "Sunday", you could get around it by saying that Christ is the sun of our lives. ;-)


Wishing you a speedy recovery reg. your ear!

[sollersuk.livejournal.com]

I think you may inadvertently have the wrong end of the stick on "Sunday". The Emperor Constantine deliberately chose it for the Christian day of worship precisely because it was the day sacred to the Unconquered Sun: he never really clicked to the difference between the Unconquered Sun and nor did some of his successors, who did not have his excuse of having been born a pagan. As the day after the Sabbath it was originally the first working day of the week (which is why anybody was able to go to the tomb with ointments etc).

When I was undergoing a French primary education I too found it odd that the English used a pagan term for Easter, but not so odd as the English habit of using "Thou" to address God, as if He was a social inferior or a pet animal. Of course it's second person singular in the original languages, but they didn't have respect forms; by the time of King James, English most certainly did.

Later I got more relaxed about Easter. Apart from a few place names, the name is about all that survives from Saxon paganism, which shows how successful the approach of Augustine of Canterbury was: he was specifically told to Christianise as many places and customs as possible, and the result was one of the quickest and most thorough conversions on record.

[owl]

Oh, I know the Jewish Sabbath is our Saturday, but the early Christians still had communion on the first day of the week (Sunday) as it was the anniversary of the resurection, even though the day of rest was still the last day of the week.
Anyway, how come the Spanish get to call it 'domingo' when we have to put up eith the pagan version? :-P We do treat it much as a sabbath anyway--no work that's unnessary and go and worship.

[sollersuk.livejournal.com]

My understanding of the Gospels and the Epistles is that we're not supposed to get deeply into the Sabbath bit anyway - see the episode where they go through the cornfield and the statement "the letter slayeth but the spirit giveth life". 5th century inhabitants of Gaul seem to hedged their bets by fasting and abstaining from work on Saturday and then going to church on Sunday (Catholics, that is - the Arians seem to have gone every day)

[owl]

A day of rest and worship is still neccessary under the covenant of grace--it's what's called a creation ordinance, ie it predates the Levitical law.
Anyway, one needs a regular rest , and one-seventh of the tie seems to work rather well. Was it after the Russian revolution that they tried to intoduce a 10-day week and everyone got overworked? Or was it the French?

*waves*

[ladyskywalker.livejournal.com]

You left a message in my journal the other day. I'm quite sorry it took me a while to add you, but I've been very busy. I really like your journal and am adding you to my friends list. There aren't many people on my friends list who are crazy about Star Wars, and according to your interests, we have a lot in common. I look forward to reading your journal and getting to know you.

Have a lovely day!

Re: *waves*

[owl]

Thank you!

Belatedly

[kizmet-42.livejournal.com]

You know, in Eastern Orthodoxy, we call Easter "Pascha" - a deliberate reference to Paul's teaching "Christ is our Passover" in 2 Corinthians. You could start using that instead of Easter.