Happy Easter one and All!

dreamdaisy

I hope that whatever you are doing it's enjoyable, fun and will leave you with some lovely memories. DD

dachshund

Thank you DD
I hope you have a lovely time has well even if it is raining.
take care
joan xx

barbara12

Same to you DD..I do love Easter time..everything is coming to life... x

[Deleted User]

Happy Easter to all our forum members and readers


Brynmor & the rest of the mod team

bubbles

Happy Easter DD, have a lovely week end XX Aidan

stickywicket

Thank you and the same to you too, DD, and to everyone else, especially the Mods and webmanager. I hope you'll all have a relaxing time.

Slosh

Happy Easter everyone. Relaxing day today then a family day tomorrow

Airwave!

Whilst enjoying the Bank Holiday mood and a time to come together, seeing the family with time to enjoy each others company I wonder if we should be wishing each other 'enjoy your holiday break' rather than a Happy Easter?

We know what happened at easter and the joyous return but are we to be wished well with a 'happy' statement? Is it fitting? Even the non-religious seem to want to use the phrase?

Food for thought!

daffy2

"Happy Easter" at least maintains a link, however tenuous, with the sacred origins of the secular holiday, and I suspect that for many using a happy holiday type alternative would smack too much of political correctness.
Some branch of happy clappies was out in force in the market place of my town on Good Friday handing out small chocolate eggs and, if they could, a religious tract on the story of the cross. I took issue as, even though I have long since ceased to be a church goer Good Friday to me is very much not about having fun and chocolate, but they were teflon coated to repel challengers with a smile. The church group taking a cross through town with periodic prayer stops(including in the middle of the Friday market) seemed more in keeping.
Something else to ponder - the date of Easter is fixed according to Jewish custom(the date of Passover) so if moves by the christian church to agree a fixed date Easter succeed how does that fit with the increasing sensitivity around anti-semitism?

stickywicket

I think - though I'm by no means sure - that, despite the clear Jewish passover connection, the date is connected not to that but to some equinox thing. I tend to feel a fixed date would be simpler but would also assist in fleecing families of money during the Easter holidays.

I don't see why on earth we should not wish people a happy Easter. It's surely a very happy period. Good Friday is not officially part of Easter: it's part of the Christian Holy Week or Passiontide.

Over here (USA) we are wished a Happy Easter and a Happy Passover. They have chocolate bunnies not chocolate eggs. But they are big on egg hunts. (Presumably the eggs are laid by the bunnies :? ) It's a year or two since I saw any chocolate crosses though. I think good taste (dare I say it?) must have triumphed.