Orthodox Christians say "Happy Resurrection Day!" to each other on Easter Sunday morning. This is a more appropriate salutation than saying "Happy Easter!, because Easter was the name of the goddess of springtime.
These two names have become interchangeable because we celebrate this Holiest of Christian events the weekend after the Spring Equinox, when the goddess Easter was celebrated with a Festival.
These are my favourite verses surrounding the story of the Passion of Christ:
Then one of the criminals who were hanged blasphemed Him, saying, "If You are the Christ, save Yourself and us." But the other, answering, rebuked him, saying, "Do you not even fear God, seeing you are under the same condemnation? And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward of our deeds; but this Man has done wrong." Then he said to Jesus, "Lord, remember me when You come into Your kingdom." And Jesus said to him, "Assuredly, I say to you, today you will be with Me in Paradise."
Luke 23:39-43 NKJ
blessings,
Laurie
2 comments:
oh, I like the Goddess of springtime too :)
Happy everything Laurie :)
Hi Laurie,
I have a christian author that has requested your blog as one of her stops on her virtual book tour next month. Do you happen to host these ocassionally? I didn't notice you did, but it didn't hurt to ask. If you're interested, would you please email me at thewriterslife(at)yahoo.com? I couldn't find your email address and figured this might get to you. Thanks, hon!
Post a Comment