7 Responses to “Easter Monday?…..”

1. #1 by MRambler
   April 7th, 2007 at 7:38 am

   I made this post at work…… After returning home, I noticed the additional Easter dates: April 1 – Palm Sunday and April Fool’s Day (That’s pretty Bizarre), and April 3 – Passover….. That’s a lot of dates for one event, but then, it was a big event when it happened 2,000 years ago or so…. Didn’t Easter used to be celebrated in March?…… What changed and when and how did the “Bunny and Egg” become associated with Easter?…… Another bizarre combination……
2. #2 by Sunn
   April 7th, 2007 at 9:34 am

   How about the date change for Daylight Savings Time. I had to manually reset the time on my computer. It also seems Global Warming is resetting the “Time of the Season” (Zombies).
   Maybe we’re just getting old, but it seems in the last 10 years or so, everything has changed, nothing is the same. Kind of sad in a lot of ways.
3. #3 by Jek
   April 7th, 2007 at 10:54 am

   Wikipedia has this bit about Easter Monday (FWIW):

   Easter Monday is the day after Easter Sunday and is celebrated as a holiday in some largely Christian cultures.

   Formerly, the post-Easter festivities involved a week of secular celebration, but this was reduced to one day in the 19th century. Events include egg rolling competitions and, in predominantly Catholic countries, dousing other people with water which, at one time, had been holy water blessed the day before at Easter Sunday Mass and carried home to bless the house and food.

   Easter Monday on the Catholic liturgical calendar is the second day of the octave of Easter Week.

   In the Eastern Orthodox Church, Easter Monday is called Bright Monday.

   Though not largely observed in the United States the day remains informally observed in some areas such as the state of North Carolina the state of North Dakota and the city of Buffalo, New York. A holiday, along with Good Friday in most of Canada (and many other Commonwealth countries).[citation needed]. Along with Good Friday, Easter Monday is a Bank Holiday in the United Kingdom, making a four-day weekend.

   And hey MR, your favorite country, Jamaica, observes it.
4. #4 by MRambler
   April 7th, 2007 at 1:47 pm

   Cool, Mon….. I’m going to have to “Get Back” to Priory Bay one of these days…… Jamaica is the only country I know of where they speak English, but you can’t understand them….. A real Jama speaks with a heavy-duty accent and faster than any New Yorker you’ve ever known….. The rum WILL knock you on your butt……
5. #5 by anon
   April 7th, 2007 at 3:20 pm

   The egg and the bunny are both symbols of fertility and are left over from old pagan stuff for the Spring Equinox.
6. #6 by anon
   April 7th, 2007 at 3:36 pm

   And the resurrection is also old pagan stuff symbolizing the death of the old year and the birth of the new year as was the Bran King. Jesus was an extension of the Bran King. Originally a Bran king was picked every year and killed at the Spring Equinox. In between he had a very,very good time. Later they quit killing him and just replaced him.
7. #7 by huskysooner
   April 9th, 2007 at 9:52 pm

   MR, since the Easter story is so inextricably linked with Passover, it’s nice when they happen during the same week (which happens most but not all years). I think it’s fair to say that Easter Monday isn’t particularly important, though a friend in Finland says he gets that day off.

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