Paganfest

[den]

Celebrating on a date set as the first Friday after the first full moon after the northern autumnal Equinox sounds like a pagan festival date to me. I upset a Christian friend today by calling Easter "a paganfest." "Don't you celebrate our Lord's sacrifice?" Well, I thought the whole point of the bread and wine thing was to remember that every week.

Anyway


I heard a rumour that a company was producing chocolate easter Wombats, but I couldn't find any in the shops. Bugger. I'll just have to settle for easter bilbies.

Comments

[guruwench.livejournal.com]

The bread and wine thing is the first Sunday of every month, not every week.

ObNit: That depends on the flavour of Christian church, IME. When I used to go to Anglican church (ie the Church of England), communion/eucharist/the bread and wine thing actually was every week. Catholics IME do bread every week, but the wine seems to be special occasions only (never did figure out just when).

[copperwolf.livejournal.com]

No, bread and wine are both featured at every Eucharist, which most practicing Catholics celebrate once a week.

[guruwench.livejournal.com]

Whups! My apologies for being unclear. You are, of course, correct, and the wine is featured along with bread each week at a Catholic mass. What I think I meant to say was that, IME, the wine was only offerred to the congregation on special occasions rather than every week. The church I went to briefly as a child had the bread offerred to all each week, but the wine was only ever served to the priest(s).

Thanks for the correction. :)

[ms-interpret.livejournal.com]

No, not at any of the Catholic churches I went to growing up. The wine is offered to the congregation every week.