Passover and Easter Weeks

It's great when Passover and Easter come together like they do this year. I think it gives a little extra depth to our celebrations. Well, to the celebrations of SOME people, anyway.

Have you noticed any differences in approaches to the holidays this spring?

After Dennis Prager's terrible paralyzing accident, I found this message on the meaning of the Passover (from before the accident) to be especially memorable: There are two basic messages in this short piece that you may want to think about this weekend.

Passover starts at sundown! Dennis gives an intruduction to the Passover Seder, a ritual meal marking the beginning of Passover in the Jewish religion. Want more? Watch the entire Passover Seder on Prageru!#dennisprager #dennispragershow #prageru pic.twitter.com/TzvxmcOBx8

— Dennis Prager (@DennisPrager) April 11, 2025

Contrast: State, not home:

Christians showed up outside a school to protest after the headteacher decided to cancel Easter to instead celebrate 'refugee week.'

They’re trying to erase Christianity in real time— step up and fight back before it’s too late.

pic.twitter.com/CZ26DKM40d

— Liberacrat™️ (@Liberacrat) April 3, 2025

Did Westminster Abbey do better than that school?

Would King Charles give a more Christian message, or a less Christian message?

In our short film for families, find out all about #Easter, how Christians celebrate this special season - and why we eat chocolate eggs at this time of year!

Watch now⤵️ pic.twitter.com/CyXrnkG3NH

— Westminster Abbey (@wabbey) April 8, 2025

Change?

Lowe’s will be closing all 1,700 of its stores for an entire day on April 20

Why?

Because it’s Easter, the holiest day in Christianity, and they want all of their employees to spend that day with family

Bravo Lowe’s👏🏼 pic.twitter.com/7nNgGvS0dU

— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) April 7, 2025

Secular Easter

Show this to your kids so they know what the Easter Bunny does to people who eat their Easter eggs before Easter Sunday.

Don't follow me for parenting tips. pic.twitter.com/7P1OowHTQ8

— Jack David (@FFS_WhatNow) April 7, 2025

More Secular Easter

Happy Easter, frockers! Here’s Liberace serving us #frockingFabulous, wearing a Fabergé suit and hatching from a giant Fabergé egg at his 1978 Radio City Easter show! pic.twitter.com/ao0Xxap8rQ

— Catherine Curzon (@MadameGilflurt) March 31, 2024

What are you gonna do if you're staying home with the kids this holiday?

Music

Repeating some great Easter music

BBC had some music suggestions. Here's one:

Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Festival Overture

This 1888 overture is named for the Svetliy prazdnik or 'Bright holiday', as Easter is known in Russia.

An avowed atheist, Rimsky-Korsakov wrote that he wanted to capture 'the transition from the solemnity and mystery of the evening of Passion Saturday to the unbridled pagan-religious celebrations of Easter Sunday morning'. The piece paints vividly the explosion of light and colour at the end of a long, hard Russian winter.

Religious and pagan themes are entwined at the very heart of the work: Rimsky-Korsakov borrowed themes from the Obikhod, a collection of Orthodox chants that since 1848 had been a mandatory part of the liturgy for every church in Russia.

These austere motifs shine through the wild textures of the orchestra, no more so than at 8'35 when a solo tenor trombone ('a piena voce') evokes the chanting of a priest.

Handel:

More Handel

Do you have a favorite piece of Easter music? Passover music?

Hope you have something nice planned for this weekend.

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