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Personally, next year, I plan to celebrate both dates - to paraphrase our brother and master of pysanky, Medved, 'so many M&Ms, so little time ..."  Many years (and many Easters) to all, Neil
"One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."
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Personally, next year, I plan to celebrate both dates - to paraphrase our brother and master of pysanky, Medved, 'so many M&Ms, so little time ..." Many years (and many Easters) to all, Neil One of our occassional posters is doing just that. He's lovin' it.
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Christ is Risen!! Indeed He is Risen!!
Aren't we all on the same date next year?
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I did a Latin Good Friday and Easter Sunday last week, and a Ukrainian Catholic Great Friday and Easter Sunday this week. Great Friday allowed me the opportunity to get into 5 Orthodox Churches in the Chicago area for a photo shoot.
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 Christ is risen! Truly, He is risen!
Better, as it is now, each to simply celebrate in peace and sing well "It is the Resurrection day. Let us be enlightened by this feast, and let us embrace one another. Let us call brethren even those who hate us, and in the Resurrection, forgive everything and let us sing: Christ is risen from the dead, by death He trampled death, and to those in the tombs, He granted life."
Please lighten up! There was a at the beginning of my post!
Fr David I understand that the comment was meant in jest, but a number of people were offended. So I edited the title of the thread. Something tells me that if someone had come on and asked why some Orthodox and Greek Catholics were celebrating the "real" pagan festival of the goddess Ostern today (the original meaning of the term "Easter") some would be offended. Please remember to go the extra mile to be charitable, even when having fun. Christ is Risen!
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I understand that the comment was meant in jest, but a number of people were offended. So I edited the title of the thread. Something tells me that if someone had come on and asked why some Orthodox and Greek Catholics were celebrating the "real" pagan festival of the goddess Ostern today (the original meaning of the term "Easter") some would be offended. Please remember to go the extra mile to be charitable, even when having fun.
Christ is Risen! Oh well, I'm sorry everyone. Fr David
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It was brought to my attention last evening that paganism is not dead in Germany, and that the neo-pagans are specifically celebrating "Easter" with that name in honor of the Teutonic goddess.
I honestly didn't know this until last evening - but this is all the more reason to avoid the use of that word!
CHRIST IS RISEN!
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Resurrectio Domini, spes nostraDear Father David, I thought your post was rather funny, myself. That's why I jokingly wished everyone a very happy Quasimodo Sunday [ newadvent.org] in return 
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It was brought to my attention last evening that paganism is not dead in Germany, and that the neo-pagans are specifically celebrating "Easter" with that name in honor of the Teutonic goddess.
I honestly didn't know this until last evening - but this is all the more reason to avoid the use of that word! But they're not really pagan, though. They're "anti-Christian and needed something that they could claim was older"--but I suppose that that's another topic. hawk
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Well, the Nazis were seriously pushing neo-paganism. It is at least possible that these new devotees of the Teutonic goddess in question are children who never learned to question their parents!
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