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Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Thunks...what happens when thinks hit a brick wall.


Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking. Goethe.
I am thinking about Easter, from Eostre, European Goddess of fertility, hence those very fertile bunny rabbits. I'm not sure how we will celebrate this year. I would like to do a Seder as we will have no worship service unless I hoy it down to the Catholic service on Saturday ~ only I really dislike the Catholic obsession with Christ's death & suffering &, for little protestant me, lack of emphasis on His resurrection. Issues; I have issues.

However it will just be Dearest, Ditz & I. Liddy is heading west to Easterfest. It would probably be best to wait & celebrate all together as a family on Monday. Dare I skip the eggs? No~one here likes milk chocolate & getting dark eggs is nearly always impossible. I loathe & abhor the commercialism ~ oh, & the fact yet another pagan festival got tacked onto a basically Jewish festival which was absconded with by Christians who had no understanding of the Jewish festival of Passover & failed to see the significance of so much that took place..

Worse, when one really starts looking there is so much to this celebration that is almost always overlooked & which, for me, is absolutely fascinating. Worth a post of its own. At some point, do you think, I might manage all my thinks into an intergrated whole that makes sense to someone besides me? For starters this marks the beginning of the Jewish sacred calendar. Something to think on, yes? Interesting choice. Meanwhile Ditz's new maths has arrived...gotta go check my armour's in place.

9 comments:

Jeanne said...

Lindt 70% dark chocolate eggs...da best! Yummo! That's what we'll be eating. We don't celebrate Easter in our church, but we do do eggs!!!!!

seekingmyLord said...

My husband works with a number of Israelis, as you know. He was just telling the Princess yesterday about the Passover Seder. I would love to do something like that, perhaps next year or when she is a bit older so that she can help more and have a good understanding of it all.

It is the cleaning the home of all chametz (leaven) in preparation for Pesach that would be the big deal for me. It takes weeks of preparation and planning to do it correctly. Then several days scrubbing everything down, including the use of toothpicks and a Q-Tips over the edges of the stove and fridge as well as covering all surfaces that come in contact with food with foil or shelf-liner, etc. A search for any remaining chametz is done by the men, and it is a tradition that some is purposely left for them to find. That chametz is then burned.

loving, laughing and learning said...

well if you were going to hoy down to the catholics it would be sunday at 7am or macleay saturday at 6.30pm/sunday at 8.20am. goodluck with the maths.

Ganeida said...

Jeanne: Lindt would be perfect. My chances of getting that over here ~ zilch. ☺ Ah well...

Seeking: Um, yes, well, I was only considering food! The cleaning thing, not about to happen. lol

LLL: thanks for the right times! ☺

Happy Elf Mom (Christine) said...

Ugggggg... GL with the new maths thing. I have to say I love the title of this post! So... do you consider it "Resurrection Sunday" or "Easter?"

Ganeida said...

Mrs C: Another quagmire because Easter is all 3 days, Ressurection Sunday speaks for itself. I am leaning towards Passover With A Twist. Covers it all I think.

Anonymous said...

Hi Ganeida,
I have posted my thoughts on Easter. :)

http://footprintsdiary.com/art-and-craft/what-do-i-celebrate-when-i-celebrate-easter/

I hope that you have a wonderful and blessed service. :D

Love and blessings,
Jillian ♥

seekingmyLord said...

You wrote: Um, yes, well, I was only considering food! The cleaning thing, not about to happen. lol

That's what I thought you would say! LOL!

MamaOlive said...

We are in the same boat. Bob has off Friday (first time ever!) but we aren't going out of town because he wants the Holy day to be a big deal. Friday we may goof off a bit. Saturday we will do a sort of Passover meal with roast lamb, matza, and bitter herbs. Sunday we will go to church as usual, but leave early if they have an egg hunt like last year. Monday Bob is back to work and I may hit the shops for cheap chocolate. :-)