Easter Traditions

[Kaylan r]

Hey,jus' wonder'n how you celebrated Easter.I'm a catholic and I go to church with my family sometimes.
You know,people think It's wierd 'cause I'm a goth but I own a bible and well.......more explanations later.

[~Dani~]

On easter I just eat a lot of chocolate

[HeartoftheDarkness]

Wow, thats pretty skinny

*sigh* I used to love easter. Now i can never remember when it is

I just eat chocolate too My family is full of atheists, so we dont celebrate or anything

[Squarmi]

We're Catholic so we go to Church in the morning and then it depends, sometimes we go to my aunts or grandparents for lunch, or we just stay at home and eat chocolate. But this year Dad's getting married, so things are going to be a little different.

Squarmi

[~Dani~]

That wasn't very nice Kaylan
I am going to japan this easter anyway, and they don't celebrate easter in Japan, as Christianity isn't a big thing in Japan.

[Ness]

haha i have an italian family and im catholic so on easter sunday/ monday (not sure which) we go to chruch then we go see my mums side. We stuff ourselves at lunch and then we eat chocoalte after (and get a headace from my baby cuzins). wen dats done we go see my dads side and the smae thing happens over dinner...lol its impossible to try and diet....

[Raineth]

I don't know what to do for easter. I'll probably go to church at some point.

We're trying to think up some special traditions just for our little family and we're not getting too far. I won't get the kids any chocoalte while they're still little because they won't know what they're missing out on yet, so we can be healthy.

Well this thread will hopefully give me some ideas.



Raineth

[Ashta]

Lol, the wiccan/pagan variant of easter isn't for another 6months when it's spring again! But our festival is generally called Ostara and falls on the Spring Equinox. It has a lot to do with firtility (hence the bunnies and the eggs) so I generally stick to that theme.

Last year I held a dedication ceremony to a specific goddess... but I would have to look back through my book of shadows to find out which one... lol.

But as far as for what falls around the christian/catholic easter time in the southern hemisphere, I tend to be focusing more on endings, and the movement into the still depths of the womb of winter. It's more a period of letting go, and waiting for new promises! So around the 21/22/23 March, I celebrate Mabon (the autumn equinox)!

Much luv to you all, and to all various traditions and faiths!
Ashta

[brydie]

I'm cofused again...wht religion are you ashta??

[Ashta]

Wiccan

[Rilla]

My family is meant to be religous, but i can't remember which religion....
At Easter i eat chocolate...

[Ashta]

lol, my family are supposed to be anglican, but I was raised pretty much as an aitheist. But that didn't work.

But, now, I'm going through an "I'm SOOOO over chocolate" phase. I eat enough food with lotsa butter, I don't need to go adding extra walking time!

[Rilla]

lol...
I think i'm anglican... but i'm pretty much athesist now

[~Dani~]

I think my mum is Methodist, my dad was Lutheran (but now is is pretty much an athiest), and I go to a Uniting Church School. But I was never christened, so I am no particular religion.

[Miky]

catholic aswell and i have to go to church on holy thursday, goodfriday and twice on easter (with both grandpaents. Thenb i eat choci!

[Timm]

I'm Catholic, but not strong or conservative.

We might go, 2 of the days? Usually I go once every 8 weeks or so

I had Easter in China last year...you wouldn't have noticed it pass. Half our year level didn't even remember, you see nothing at all about it there...buuuut, we were out in a more country area, not a city.

[Elspeth]

I used to love Easter with my family. Autumn seems to be one of my favourite seaons - it's so still and expectant. I can't get enough of the endless blue skies and chilling winds... But I have digressed just a little.

As I was saying, our Easter ritual used to go along these lines: my brother and I would go to church with our Dad (my family isn't hugely religious, but we used to observe the major holidays). While we were at church, my mum would hide some eggs about the house and write little cryptic notes as to where they were hidden (she also made all the Easter eggs herself). When we arrived home, we'd go on an Easter egg hunt and then give each other our eggs. And once that was all done, we'd go on a picnic somewhere.

I rather miss that sort of stuff. I'm such an old-fashioned girl - I love the simple things. This year, I'm going to be spending the whole Easter weekend - from Friday to Monday - with my parents in Beechworth. I wonder if we'll go on a picnic?

[Kaylan-R]

Hey,Danni....what did I say that offended you??

[Sundown]

We go to church on the Sunday, but that's normal. Most of the specdial Easter stuff we do at home.
On Friday we read the bit from the Bible about the last supper and do a kind of communion with red grape juice (it tastes better than wine anyway). Then on Sunday we read the bit about the resurrection. THEN we have easter egg hunts and pig out on chocolate stuff.
I think for us the eggs are a symbol of new life - being born again.

[Kaylan-R]

SunDown,a communion thing sounds wierd.
Anyway,I want to be wiccan!!!! I'm a goth why cant I?

[Sundown]

Na, It's not too wierd. It's not like I think a Catholic communion is - something about a wafer becoming Christ's body. We just go through the last supper and Dad says all the food & wine stuff that Jesus said ('cept nobody has to be Judas - phew) It's all really symbolic.

[Vespertine]

I'm kinda too old for easter games now, but when my brother and I were little, my parents used to leave notes outside our doors that would lead us to some other place where there was a note, that would tell us to go somewhere else where we'd find a note. Kinda like a treasure hunt. And in the end we'd finally be lead to our easter egg. It was very worth it.

[Elspeth]

That sounds like so much fun, Cière. What a pity we grow out of games. Although, I have to admit, I do like games as much as I did when I was a kid - I just don't have the chance to play them any more. ;D

[Cat-Eyes]

I'm catholic, but more agnostic-atheist now... I used to go to a lot of the masses, but this year i'll be on an annual venturer camp ;D

And last year I was canoeing down the Glenelg River in order to get my Australian Scout Medallion ;D

But the year before (or was it the one before that? Acutally, I think it was both...) I went to every mass bar one (this was back when i was still an altar server). I was serving at the children's holy thursday mass and i went to the normal one with Mum, I was Mary in the good friday stations of the cross renactment, and helping out at the 3pm service, serving again at the easter vigil at 8pm, and I think I was filling in serving for someone at 9am and Mum was rostered to sing at 10:30, but I think I got out of 10:30, just.

Can't quite remember, but I do know I spent pretty much my entire time at the church. Especially good friday cause we had rehearsal, performance, rehearsal, 3pm...


Anyway. Easter is a lot like Chirstmas in my family. Everyone comes to my house, we have a big lunch, we exchange eggs. In the morning (when we're home and not off camping) my brother and I wake to find our eggs at the end of our bed. Then our grandparents come over and give us more and my uncle usualy gives us one and it's all

My brother always eats his faster than me though and a couple of weeks later is scabbing all of mine. Bastard...

Cat

[Arien]

Cière said:

I'm kinda too old for easter games now, but when my brother and I were little, my parents used to leave notes outside our doors that would lead us to some other place where there was a note, that would tell us to go somewhere else where we'd find a note. Kinda like a treasure hunt. And in the end we'd finally be lead to our easter egg. It was very worth it.

My mum used to do the same thing ;D Write a note from the easter bunny telling me where to go to find eggs

We don't do anything special for easter...I think my family's Anglican, but we're not really religious or anything...so yeah. We just give eachother chocolate eggs