Mostly the great feast part is spiritual, but some take a lot of pleasure in physical feasting as well. We will be having ham and homemade bread, as well as hard cheese and baked eggs. [UPDATE: I added those Oregon Trail beans, which are as advertised very good.] It's not in my house that much of a physical feast, not like Christmas (or even Thanksgiving, which is only a physical feast). It's relatively simple but traditional food.
By the way, if any of you have heard of the alleged Anglo-Saxon traditions of Ostara, mentioned once by the Venerable Bede as an early pagan goddess, here is a young lady who wants to disabuse everyone of that story. If you like myth debunking -- which I don't, always -- that's really her thing and you might enjoy her other videos.
James meditates on Judas, the man who made the day possible.
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A happy Easter to all in the Hall! Since lamb only arrived yesterday, I stayed with my original menu and had beef stew with Polish mushrooms, and Ukrainian anis-almond bread. There were hot-cross buns for the after-church nibblers while the stew heated.
LittleRed1
Judas made the day possible?
- Tom
For a certain sense of the word "possible." Obviously in a different sense God made the world and sustains it in existence; that makes anything possible in a quite different sense of the term. Somebody had to do what Judas did, though; you can't expect God to carry the weight of sinning against himself. Indeed a world in which no one would do such a thing might not need an Easter.
Well, yes, in a sense we all made that day possible.
It may well just be me, but I've never thought Judas was all that important. In the historical event, he played one part, along with the Roman soldiers, Pilate, the Jewish leaders, the mob who asked for a murderer to be released instead of Jesus, etc. His tale is more tragic because he betrayed his friends, but his importance overall was small.
- Tom
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