Alleluia! Alleluia! Jesus Christ is risen today! Alleluia!
From the gospel of Luke…
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 puzzling over this, behold, two men in dazzling garments appeared to them. They were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground. They said to them, “Why do you seek the living one among the dead? He is not here, but he has been raised. Remember what he said to you while he was still in Galilee that the Son of Man must be handed over to sinners and be crucified, and rise on the third day.”
And they remembered his words.
May our Easter joy renew us. May we live, proclaim and practice our faith, with courage and conviction, in private and in public. May the Lord give us peace and blessings.
Because He is risen, there’s hope for us all.
Alleluia! The Lord is risen!
He is risen indeed, Alleluia!
A holy and happy Easter to you @pkml3 and to all who celebrate this wondrous feast! May we have the courage to live not only rightly but also lovingly in Christ Jesus’ new life.
Alleluia!!! Happy Easter @PM3 and BODers who celebrate it!
It will still be several hours from our side of the world to celebrate it. Our choir is singing at one of the Easter masses so I’ve been practicing our song list. Easter mass has a different vibe than Christmas and since the kids are past Easter egg hunts and the like, it feels less commercialized to us. Then we plan to have potluck lunch after church.
Cheers!
Alleluia! Alleluia! Thank you Jesus for saving us. Thank you for forgiving our sins. Thank you for the promise of new life. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Have a Blessed Easter! 🐣 May it be one of joy, peace and hope. ❤️
Hoping you have a Happy Easter filled with blessings. May you who live in the Northern Hemisphere have a lovely spring, enjoying the beauty of New blooms. And I hope you also have fun with Easter eggs, real and on film. And may you enjoy all that great Easter candy and perhaps, carrot cake.🍰. I am seeing the Easter bunny 🐰 too.
🐰🐇🌷🌺🌻🍰🙏
A Happy Easter to all who celebrate it today.
Happy Easter to you who celebrate today!
He rose!!! Happy Easter!
Happy Easter! Christ is risen!
I prefer to say it in french: Joyeuses pâques !
That sounds even better somehow. I hope you had a lovely day, @Wenchanteur!
Now I know why the pasque flower is called that. Somehow related to easter and passover. And comes up at this time of year. Maybe a common latin root word or something like that.
@Fern, Thanks. You too (or I hope you had, as it was yesterday 😉 )
We get to repeat our Easter greetings on May 5 when @Cleopatra and all other BoDers on the Orthodox calendar celebrate the holy day.
@Old American Lady, will your husband’s health allow him to gather with others to observe Passover April 22-30? I hope he’s feeling much better, now that he’s finished his chemotherapy regimen.
For those who celebrate it, Eid-al-Fitr is coming up on April 9. I hope your month of Ramadan has been, and is, filled with blessings.
As for my Easter, I celebrated it through music, since I was snowed in at my mountain cabin. My neighborhood measured seven inches of snowfall on Easter Sunday, and more fell in other locations nearby. That was on top of the snow that fell Saturday. Since my electricity and internet didn’t go out, I was able to watch and listen on YouTube to some of my favorite Charles Wesley hymns, and a full performance of Handel’s Messiah. Hallelujah!
,@Welmaris, Thank you for your kind wishes for my husband.He is doing well right now and I am enjoying cooking and feeding him
We are living at a time that is holy for the three Abrahamic religions. I pray that in the coming year that we will all know peace. Sometimes in families there are feuds. I hope we can return to times when our cousins can live in harmony. Current events trouble me. Antisemitism has reared it’s ugly head. But I try to remain optimistic. I live next door to a Palestinian Muslim family. We get along
I have given them mint from my garden. They gave me a home sweet home poster. My other neighbors stre Palestinian Christian married to someone Irish Catholic, a Coptic Christian cop married to an Irish Catholic cop, an Italian Catholic fily, an Israeli family, a Chinese Family, am Italian family, (who are raising chickens and other Irish and Italian families who are typical of my borough. We also have a lesbian family who moved in around the corner. It is ironic that several of our Republican elected are LGBTQ+ people as is one Democratic judge so stereotyped don’t apply. That’s why in this season I hope that we’ll all be able to get along. I know it’s possible based on how things are with my neighbors.
@Old American Lady, your neighborhood sounds so New York! It warms my heart to read that the melting pot is real, not fiction.
@Old American Lady, you’ve had some excitement today! I’m glad to read no significant damage has been reported from the earthquake and aftershocks. There’s so much built with masonry in your area, which isn’t tolerant of shaking ground.
Hi @Welmaris, Thank you for thinking of me The Californians on this blog have much more serious earthquakes than we did
I was home for the quake and the aftershock. We felt it but initially thought it was related to storms in our area(we got record breaking rainstorms earlier in the week). We were very lucky because we had no damage. People in New Jersey and areas closer to the epicenter weren’t as lucky. Some had experienced bad flooding as a result of the earlier rain storm and then had to contend with quake damage.The area where the quake happened also is one of the most scenic parts of New Jersey.My husband and I used to take day trips to that area where there were county fairs and there are still farms. I hope the farm animals fared well too. But here New Yorkers took it in stride and some didn’t even feel it.We’ve been through black outs, terror attacks, blizzards and Covid, so in general the quake was like a blip(to put it in context). And where I live we have tall trees and woods where nothing fell.Niw the city will inspect infrastructure and buildings. So, as they say somebody up there likes us.