They must have a different Easter in some towns. 
Why?
- Thread starter ANNE
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Because we like chocolate !!!!
I think maybe the original poster is one of the eastern european immigrants that some have complained about stealing all the jobs, and belongs to the Coptic or Orthodox church .
Has anybody told Mick?
Let's not forget Anne is originally from Preston.
Rather than eat the Easter eggs, she was brought up to believe she should be rolling them down the hill in Avenham Park.
http://www.prestoncitizen.co.uk/new...ar.1312069.0.climbing_the_wall_for_easter.php
Sorry Chuck(y egg) couldn't resist it.
Rather than eat the Easter eggs, she was brought up to believe she should be rolling them down the hill in Avenham Park.
http://www.prestoncitizen.co.uk/new...ar.1312069.0.climbing_the_wall_for_easter.php
Sorry Chuck(y egg) couldn't resist it.
Mmmm lots of interesting answers here. Rindy's right. Well sort of.
This is what I was led to believe, firstly by Mum n Dad and later through Sunday School.
Good Friday was the Day that Jesus was Crusified. He rose again 3day's after the Crusifiction.
Day 1 Saturday, Day 2 Sunday, Day 3 Easter Monday. Assention Day.
The Chocolate eggs are to represent the rolling away of the tomb stone. It was considered unlucky to eat the eggs before Easter Monday without rolling them, till they broke.
On Easter Monday in Preston has always been a big event were the eggs would be taken to Avenham park and rolled down the big green hill. If it was raining then we wern't allowed to eat the eggs untill they had been rolled in the house and broken.
If they were to symbolise the start of spring Tinks we would be eating our yummy choccy in March.
This is what I was led to believe, firstly by Mum n Dad and later through Sunday School.
Good Friday was the Day that Jesus was Crusified. He rose again 3day's after the Crusifiction.
Day 1 Saturday, Day 2 Sunday, Day 3 Easter Monday. Assention Day.
The Chocolate eggs are to represent the rolling away of the tomb stone. It was considered unlucky to eat the eggs before Easter Monday without rolling them, till they broke.
On Easter Monday in Preston has always been a big event were the eggs would be taken to Avenham park and rolled down the big green hill. If it was raining then we wern't allowed to eat the eggs untill they had been rolled in the house and broken.
If they were to symbolise the start of spring Tinks we would be eating our yummy choccy in March.
Ah well there you go, That explains it. Except he didn't rise 3 days after the crucifixion. He rose 'on the third day'. Friday was the first day, Saturday was the second day and Sunday was the third day. This is also why we have Sunday as our holy or Sabbath day. You know that "Six days shalt thou labour and do all that though hast to do but the seventh is the sabbath of the Lord thy God. In it thou shalt do no work, neither thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor the stranger within thy gates etc etc..."? Well if you look at a calendar you'll see that Sunday isn't the seventh day. It's the first day.
The Jews (today and in Jesus's time) have Saturday as their Sabbath day because it is the 7th day of the week and they are doing like it says - mind you some ignore the manservant, maidservant and stranger bit and get other people to do things for them on the Sabbath even as far as switching a light on or off for very orthodox Jews.
The early Christians also kept Saturday as their Sabbath but somewhere along the way it was changed to Sunday in honour of the day that Jesus rose from the dead.
Ascension Day is another thing altogether. After his resurrection Jesus spent time with various people. He even had a picnic on the beach and chatted to a couple of chaps on the road to Emmaus but it didn't dawn on them who he was at first. It's generally regarded that he stayed 40 days after his resurrection before ascending to Heaven. This year Ascension Day will officially be May 17th - it's always on a Thursday but some churches sort of celebrate it on the following Sunday. Our church doesn't actually make a thing of it at all though and like "Whitsuntide" which used to be celebrated with Whit Monday walks and things it seems to have become largely forgotten nowadays.
Here endeth the lesson for today
I never realy thought about eating eggs on Easter Sunday,seriously though is that why there are crosses on hot cross buns ,so we eat them on good friday..?
mmmmm so do I.
Very interesting thread -- just shows one is never too old to learn. However, I am somewhat concerned as to wether or not Him / Her Up There will give me bad Karma for eating them before the official date. And by the way, as it was a Fiver to go in Canterbury Cathedral I didn`t get the chance to see the Archbishop. ( Footnote: I am rather careful regarding parting with Coin of the Realm these days.)