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31-03-2024 11:55 AM
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Re: EASTER Hang Out Space - All are invited!
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31-03-2024 01:48 PM
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Re: EASTER Hang Out Space - All are invited!
Watching a series of FBI @Former-Member
And tin oysters for lunch
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31-03-2024 02:45 PM
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Re: EASTER Hang Out Space - All are invited!
Sounds good on a Sunday afternoon @Shaz51 🙂🌺
Very yum! How do you eat them? I have them on crackers with cheese 🙂
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31-03-2024 04:11 PM
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Re: EASTER Hang Out Space - All are invited!
That sounds nice @Former-Member will have to try it next time
No just ate them out of the tin
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31-03-2024 04:45 PM
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Re: EASTER Hang Out Space - All are invited!
If you’re a fan of vitaweats, they do match well with those I think @Shaz51 🙂
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31-03-2024 05:01 PM
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Re: EASTER Hang Out Space - All are invited!
Best Easter wishes everybody ….. 🌷🐣❤️
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31-03-2024 07:23 PM
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Re: EASTER Hang Out Space - All are invited!
HOW OSTARA BECAME EASTER
Obviously we can see parallels between these ancient roots and the Christian festival of Easter. Linguistically, Eostre is the etymological origin for “Easter”, so why is that? Historians have different theories. As Christianity spread through Northern Europe and people maintained their older traditions. The Church, as a result, started to encompass these pagan traditions and festivals within the Christian calendar.
St Patrick (whose day is also celebrated around the equinox) very deliberately incorporated Irish folk traditions and beliefs into Christian practice as he actively converted the population of Ireland. For example, the Celtic cross features a circle at the centre — as the sun was venerated within the Irish pagan tradition, St Patrick thought that this would help his converts associate the cross with divinity. Considering how popular the Celtic cross is today, it seems this campaign was a success.
As for whether Easter is the definitive date of Christ’s resurrection, that remains wreathed in shadow. While the Roman census clearly places Jesus’ birth in June, it’s harder to pin the crucifixion down to a day on the calendar (or even a year!) But whatever the histography of Jesus’ life, as a divinity linked to the sun, he is related to his predecessor pagan sun gods — like Mithras — who also died and were born again… and have been connected to the Spring Equinox as a result.
So, although claiming Eostre/Ostara/Easter for Christianity may have been a deliberate campaign by the Church, we could also argue that Jesus is just another in a long line of deities associated with this date in the calendar. What’s more, our popular iconography of hares/rabbits and eggs in association with the festival could be thought of as ancient traditions persisting, a millennia apart from their origins.
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01-04-2024 10:25 AM
01-04-2024 10:25 AM
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I've done Ubi Caritas by Gjeilo. Wonderful. Fellow chorister!
I also love your wisdom re exercising slowly. Its important. SO often too much focus on speed.
@Faith-and-Hope @tyme @Shaz51 @Former-Member @john74 and all
Hope the day was at least middling to decent....
be wonderful if it was great....
My organ playing went well enough.... and in the afternoon there was karaoke... and I sang Khe Sahn and My heart goes on .... kind of different to my usual fair, but ya gotta fit in .... and I try! lol
@Jacques Cultural history is interesting. Thanks for sharing.
Similar cultural absorptions happen still eg at the hospital they did fish on Friday and eggs on Sunday... the Sacred and Secular are not always separate. A lot depends on the individual and the organisation. Humans need people and culture grows around that.
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01-04-2024 11:24 AM
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@Appleblossom it's good to hear you enjoy music as much as I do. At the SGL choir we've been practising "Bad Romance", a lot of fun!
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01-04-2024 11:27 AM
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i hope everyone had some good in your days