I saw what looked like a photo of the message board in front of a Baptist church that read: Had not planned on giving up quite this much for Lent.
Maybe that's why Lent seems eternal this year. :+)
I sent out Easter cards as I do each year. I hesitated then decided that if there was ever a time when a message of hope was needed, this was that time.
We held a Seder with my in-laws and SIL/BIL via zoom. It worked out pretty well. Certainly better than simply being apart. "Next year in Jerusalem", and maybe next year all together too.
We'll do the same with both families for Easter Vigil (as is the Eurpoean tradition) and Easter Sunday (in the American fashion). Again, not what we want, but much better than not doing it.
My son has to organise so many online services - some happening at the same time - that we are very aware of the time. However, it hasn't necessarily made us more spiritually aware.
The Episcopal Church in which I was confirmed is (technical issues willing) putting their Holy Week services on their website, including a Maundy Thursday service this evening: https://www.stjamesfairhope.org
"Next year in Jerusalem", and maybe next year all together too.
That's a structural weakness in my family. My parents left their Baptist church back in the 1960s because it was too rigid and too much a haven for prejudice (as it doubtless really was, in the South in the 1960s, though mostly those of my family who remained in it are decent people and mostly not more judgmental than most). They drifted from one sect to another, one church to another, trying to find a better home. Their children did likewise, and as a consequence we have no common rituals anymore.
It was well-intended, and seeking the truth is worthy; but it's caused us to lose the common ground that your family enjoys.
A Methodist church up the road a bit has a sign "The church isn't closed, it's deployed." That would be a little more accurate if there weren't this "6-foot outreach."
"It was well-intended, and seeking the truth is worthy; but it's caused us to lose the common ground that your family enjoys."
I am fortunate beyond words- that we are physically close in distance, all still here, that my family's traditional American ways (Christmas and Easter day)and her family's traditional European ways (Christmas Eve, Easter Vigil) sort out so neatly, and that we can also incorporate some Jewish traditions in light of my FILs background (he's an agnostic Jew who has gotten more attentive to it in later years). I treasure it all. Probably don't deserve a lick of it, either.
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We zoomed mass with my parents which was nice, but it wasn't really the same without the procession, and of course communion.
Heck of a lent for sure.
I saw what looked like a photo of the message board in front of a Baptist church that read: Had not planned on giving up quite this much for Lent.
Maybe that's why Lent seems eternal this year. :+)
I sent out Easter cards as I do each year. I hesitated then decided that if there was ever a time when a message of hope was needed, this was that time.
I watched the Palm Sunday service on my laptop, but indeed it wasn't quite the same. The same will be true for the Easter services.
And Passover starts tonight. Apparently there are a lot of seders being held with the elder and others attending via laptop or smart phone.
LittleRed1
We held a Seder with my in-laws and SIL/BIL via zoom. It worked out pretty well. Certainly better than simply being apart. "Next year in Jerusalem", and maybe next year all together too.
We'll do the same with both families for Easter Vigil (as is the Eurpoean tradition) and Easter Sunday (in the American fashion). Again, not what we want, but much better than not doing it.
Such is life.
My son has to organise so many online services - some happening at the same time - that we are very aware of the time. However, it hasn't necessarily made us more spiritually aware.
The Episcopal Church in which I was confirmed is (technical issues willing) putting their Holy Week services on their website, including a Maundy Thursday service this evening: https://www.stjamesfairhope.org
"Next year in Jerusalem", and maybe next year all together too.
That's a structural weakness in my family. My parents left their Baptist church back in the 1960s because it was too rigid and too much a haven for prejudice (as it doubtless really was, in the South in the 1960s, though mostly those of my family who remained in it are decent people and mostly not more judgmental than most). They drifted from one sect to another, one church to another, trying to find a better home. Their children did likewise, and as a consequence we have no common rituals anymore.
It was well-intended, and seeking the truth is worthy; but it's caused us to lose the common ground that your family enjoys.
A Methodist church up the road a bit has a sign "The church isn't closed, it's deployed." That would be a little more accurate if there weren't this "6-foot outreach."
"It was well-intended, and seeking the truth is worthy; but it's caused us to lose the common ground that your family enjoys."
I am fortunate beyond words- that we are physically close in distance, all still here, that my family's traditional American ways (Christmas and Easter day)and her family's traditional European ways (Christmas Eve, Easter Vigil) sort out so neatly, and that we can also incorporate some Jewish traditions in light of my FILs background (he's an agnostic Jew who has gotten more attentive to it in later years). I treasure it all. Probably don't deserve a lick of it, either.
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