So, how are you celebrating Jesus being nailed to the cross and dying a horrible death?

[Kidlicious]

Kid, sometimes you really are an idiot. I ignore people that call you that, but sometimes...

Don't electrocute me bro! :

[CrONoS]

We had a beautiful celebration at our university chapel. We had the ceremony of fire (all the light of the church are closed, everybody lit up their little candle from the blessed fire)

We also had two new baptized in our community.(We are roman catholic).

One of the girl is ... a saint. I can compare her to Simone Weil; His godfather is a great french canadian intellectual(A specialist of Nietzsche, Gustave Thibon and Simon Weil). It was a pleasure to speak to him after the mass

2/3 of our community come from Africa; for many of us the triduum is really important, and really more important than Christmas. We are celebrating the resurrection of Christ and of our spiritual life.

There was a lot of joy in the night, after the mass, we celebrate in a ballroom outside the chapel, people were invited to bring a meal. There were meal from Africa, eastern Europe, south America and Canada.

We danced and sang on some African spiritual song; which was really fun.

Overall, I had a very unique and special triduum this year. I made many wrongs actions over the year, I was intellectually and spiritually lost. The lent helped me a lot to see more clearly.

The light be with you,

Dom

[Verto]

I watched Religulous last night, and worked today.

[SlowwHand]

Sounds great. Glad you have a memory to hold close.

[Straybow]

[Q=Elok;5571978][q=Straybow]Humph! For once, we Westerners are celebrating Easter on the Sunday after Passover, and you Easterners are draping the dead body of Christ on the donkey while trying to figure out how to count a week and a half as 3 days and 3 nights in the tomb.
[/q]Whereas half the time, your method has him rising from the dead weeks before Passover. And there's no way to make the stretch from Friday night to predawn Sunday morning last a full 72 hours no matter how you reckon it. He was in the tomb for portions of three separate days.[/Q]
No, we don't. Protestants mostly know that the liturgical calendar is just that: religious tradition. There is no divine command or magic power attached to a date on the calendar. Some of us celebrate the liturgical season as a convenience (it's when everyone else is celebrating it) and mark the passover and following days as the true context. Just because the Greco-Roman fathers wrote everything Jewish out of their version of Christianity doesn't mean we have to do the same.

The truth is, almost nobody celebrated that first Sunday. They were at first disbelieving, and then too stunned to grasp what had transpired. Days later they were dispersing to pick up the pieces of their old lives, thinking everything was over. Jesus appeared to them here and there until they got the message and gathered again. Paul says that Jesus was then seen by an assembly of more than 500 believers.

As for "3 days and 3 nights," it is a Jewish metaphor meaning three days without interruption, and the days are counted even if the first is only the fraction of the hour before sunset and the third is only the night hours before sunrise.

[Alexander I]

Here's a nice message for the Easter season:

[Lorizael]

I went to an Art museum, got laid, and ate some Chinese food that made me want to vomit up my testicles. Overall, though, not a bad Easter.

[MOBIUS]

Once you get over the novelty of getting laid regularly, you'll soon realise that an Easter involving eating something that makes you want to vomit up my testicles (wait - you need those now!), is actually quite bad...

[Japher]

I bet Jesus got all the ladies. He was a stud.

[Lorizael]

Once you get over the novelty of getting laid regularly, you'll soon realise that an Easter involving eating something that makes you want to vomit up my testicles (wait - you need those now!), is actually quite bad...

My testicles, not your testicles. Nothing could make me want to vomit up yours.

[Wezil]

He is Risen!

He'd make a crappy Dead Pool pick.

[MOBIUS]

My testicles, not your testicles. Nothing could make me want to vomit up yours.

Ha ha - busted by a lazy cut and paste job...

Still, it's obvious what I mean, even to a pedant.