Made by my dear friend Bethany Myers and too beautiful not to share this Easter Sunday:
Showing posts with label easter. Show all posts
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Lenten Blogging 2022: Day 45
Today is Good Friday: the commemoration of the day that Jesus Christ died at Calvary. It's only fitting, then, that today's installment of "blogging for Lent" should be mindful of that.
Good friend of this blog and all around amazing guy "Lowbridge" found this a little while ago and shared it on another forum. I decided it was well worth passing along to this blog's readers as well. As good a thing as any for the occasion.
Longtime television viewers will recognize Agnes Morehead for her portrayal of Samantha's mother on the 1960s sitcom Bewitched. What I didn't know until just now was that Morehead was a devout Christian. She grew up in a Presbyterian house where her father was a minister. It's been said that Morehead brought her Bible with her to work every day, and would read from it between scenes. It also goes without saying that she was a phenomenal actress.
As part of Oral Roberts's Easter special in 1970, Morehead performed a dramatic reading of the Easter story. Here it is, for your edification:
Sunday, April 05, 2015
I have never understood Easter
Seriously, I haven't.
This is the day when Christians celebrate the resurrection of their Lord.
If that cannot be celebrated every day of the year, what difference does it make if it's celebrated one day out of that year?
Even so, Happy Easter. He is risen.
This is the day when Christians celebrate the resurrection of their Lord.
If that cannot be celebrated every day of the year, what difference does it make if it's celebrated one day out of that year?
Even so, Happy Easter. He is risen.
Sunday, April 04, 2010
He is risen...
Thought by many to be the site of the burial and resurrection of Jesus
On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them. In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, "Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee: 'The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.' " Then they remembered his words.Happy Easter from The Knight Shift!When they came back from the tomb, they told all these things to the Eleven and to all the others. It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the others with them who told this to the apostles. But they did not believe the women, because their words seemed to them like nonsense. Peter, however, got up and ran to the tomb. Bending over, he saw the strips of linen lying by themselves, and he went away, wondering to himself what had happened.
-- from the Book of Luke
Chapter 24, verses 1-12
Monday, April 09, 2007
Happy (belated) Easter
This is what I got from Dad for Easter...
Now that Easter is over, Jenna Olwin can resume posting about Harry Potter again, which she gave up for Lent (though she seemingly fell off the wagon with this post about the new book's cover, since she did it on a Sunday it doesn't count).
Now that Easter is over, Jenna Olwin can resume posting about Harry Potter again, which she gave up for Lent (though she seemingly fell off the wagon with this post about the new book's cover, since she did it on a Sunday it doesn't count).Did you know that although Easter is very much a Christian holiday, that the word "Easter" is taken from an old pagan goddess of dawn who was also named "Easter"?
I've never seen much use to the holiday, personally. I mean, the resurrection of Jesus is something that Christians are supposed to draw hope from every day of the year... so why focus that hope on just one?
Okay, 'nuff thoughts about Easter for this year. I mostly just did this post to show off the cool Spider-Man candy egg that Dad found and got for me :-)
Friday, April 06, 2007
Good Friday 2007
Today is the observance of Good Friday in most Christian traditions.Wilson Bondoc, 19, a bicycle cab driver, is nailed to a wooden cross during a Good Friday crucifixion re-enactment in Lourdes Northwest Village in Pampanga province, north of Manila, April 6, 2007. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco (PHILIPPINES) Original link Men are nailed to a cross during a re-enactment of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ in the village of Cutud, about 80 km (50 miles) north of Manila, April 6, 2007. More than a dozen Filipinos were nailed to crosses and scores more whipped their backs into a bloody pulp on Friday in a gory ritual to mark the death of Jesus Christ. REUTERS/Darren Whiteside (PHILIPPINES) Original link Men flagellate themselves before a re-enactment of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ in the village of Cutud, about 80 km (50 miles) north of Manila, April 6, 2007. More than a dozen Filipinos were nailed to crosses and scores more whipped their backs into a bloody pulp on Friday in a gory ritual to mark the death of Jesus Christ. (PHILIPPINES) Original link
Ever since first hearing about this in 1992, I've been fascinated with this ritual that is done every year by some Christians in the Philippines:
In case you're wondering: those choosing to be crucified aren't left up on the crosses for very long. They're nailed down, hoisted up and left there for a few minutes before being taken back down. The nails are also specially treated to minimize trauma and infection. Some Christians in the Philippines have put themselves through this ritual every Good Friday for several years in a row. In recent years some women have also allowed themselves to be crucified.
As I said: fascinating.
