SUNDAY EDITORIAL

This has been an outstanding week for me, I have truly been blessed going out and coming in. Depending on whom you speak to this day is celebrated by many as Palm Sunday: The Sunday before Easter [that is next Sunday] the sixth and last Sunday in Lent and the first day of Holy Week. Palm Sunday recalls the entry of Jesus riding into Jerusalem on a donkey.

Now that we know that, why are these people celebrating it? According to the Bible? No, I do not think so. Again man has made things to please himself.

Matthew, Mark, Luke and John all inform us about the last supper and the crucifixion. Mark and John let us know the next day the Sabbath was the day after the crucifixion. All four inform us that the resurrection took place on the first day of the week, that day being the day after the Sabbath. We could list all the scriptures but I think you get the idea. What none of them do in these books are any other is tell us to celebrate any of these days.

Easter is the name of a spring goddess, surely God would not want us to celebrate this, and doesn’t He tell us not to worship any other gods?

To be sure I was on the right track I looked up what each of the celebrations during this week meant.

Holy Week is the week before Easter. It includes the following:
Palm Sunday (or Passion Sunday), the entrance of Jesus into Jerusalem.
Holy Thursday (or Maundy Thursday), the institution of Communion and the betrayal by Judas. Thursday is the day that four events are celebrated. The washing of the disciples feet, which we are told to do to others. The mystery of the bread and wine at the last supper. No mystery to me, the scriptures tell us plainly what it is all about,and yes we are told to do it also. Christ’s agony in the Garden of Gethsemane, well there is nothing there that tells me to celebrate it. Nor, can I think of a reason to celebrate the betrayal of Judas, but it is included in the four things that are commemorated on Thursday. Good Friday, the arrest, trial, crucifixion, death, and burial of Jesus Christ. Holy Saturday, Holy and Great Saturday, is also called The Great Sabbath since it is on this day that Christ "rested" physically in the tomb. But it is also believed that it was on this day He performed in spirit the Harrowing of Hell and raised up to Paradise those held captive there.
The time from sundown on Holy Thursday to sundown on Easter Day is also known as the Triduum, which is Latin for “three days.”

Easter Sunday is the first day of the new season, referring to the time between Pascha [Easter] and Pentecost. The new clothes, the bunnies and the eggs, they also have meaning. The new clothes show newness, white signifies purity. The bunny is a symbol of God’s plan to be fruitful and multiply, and the renewed exuberance of all creatures in cooperating with God in creating new life. The egg is a symbol of the resurrection; the shell represents the tomb, which could not contain the resurrected Lord. The chick bursting forth from the lifeless shell is a metaphor for the mystery of Christ’s resurrection. This one I love “we could think of the eggs the Easter rabbit carries in a basket as representing Christians carrying the message of Christ into the world.”
I guess it just shows that the more you read, the more you know? It was enough to make me want to laugh, but there are people that actually believe all of the above.

Jesus told us in His Words what we were to do and not do. We were also told not to add or take away from that Word, which is the Bible.

I think everyday should be a Holy Day to the Lord. I am thankful that He was born, that He died for all our sins, that He rose again. I am thankful for the day of Pentecost. I am thankful that my day to celebrate the Lord is each day that I am living for Him.

God Bless,
rECj/LJG