He Is Risen

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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 :(

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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.