how do you celebrate Easter Sunday?

i was raised christen protestant so i do the traditional easter service followed by getting together with family and watching the kids hunt eggs.

my understanding is that the Easter bunny and the egg hunt are traditions borrowed from other non-christian religions.

i politely ask those who are non-christen to please enlighten me.

i mean no offence i just desire to learn.

btw im not a christian, im agnostic.

The practice of decorating eggshells is ancient, predating Christian traditions.[6] Ostrich eggs with engraved decoration that are 60,000 years old have been found in Africa.[7] Decorated ostrich eggs, and representations of ostrich eggs in gold and silver, were commonly placed in graves of the ancient Sumerians and Egyptians as early as 5,000 years ago.[8]

The Christian custom of the Easter egg, however, can be traced as far back as the early Christians of Mesopotamia, who stained eggs red in memory of the blood of Christ, shed at his crucifixion.[9][10] The Christian Church officially adopted the custom, regarding the eggs as a symbol of the resurrection. The Roman Ritual, the first edition of which was published in 1610 but which contains texts of much older date, has among the Easter Blessings of Food, along with those for lamb, bread, and new produce, a blessing for eggs.

Being the good pagan that I am I was up at 4am and at a members house at 5am that is right on the ocean facing east for the annual sunrise service, (I am a friend of the MCC Church, it is a LGBT congregation which even lets straight pagans like me attend) like last year it was a beautiful morning. After a short service we had a most wonderful breakfast, potluck is always fun then it was back home to feed the dog and cat, give the shot etc. It was now 8:10 and time to head to church where I am the guy who does the setup, we meet in a community center so all our stuff is in a storage locker. Service was at 10 and again it is what you would expect for an Easter service, by 12 I had everything put away and headed for home. Lunch took me to just after 1pm where I decided that it was time for a well deserved nap. Three hours later I was ready to go again and put on a movie and grabbed a beer, after a couple beers and a couple movies it was 10pm and time for bed.

Big sigh,

Made it through another Easter without much damage.

Let it be noted, yes I go to a gay church, however there are about 30% of us who are straight, we have a few families that attend with kids. It is a christian church but all beliefs are welcome and respected. I have not figured out why I attend but I have only missed 3 times in the last year, two of those were scheduled. What I have found with this group of people as is in the ministry is total equality. The members are some of the best people I have ever known, what you would expect christians to be like and they are that way every single day in every aspect of their lives. I think by going it has made me a better and kinder person, so

I wish you all a Happy Easter, one day late.

Mahalo

River

Hunting Eggs easter is not a custom to Roman Catholic Church. It´s an unknown or strange tradition for many. However I´ve seen an increased spread of this tradition in non-religious contexts. We only celebrated Mass, and Easter Sunday also is known for us as "Resurection easter" or "Resurection sunday"

Happy easter,

I met with most of my family at a nice restaurant and shared a meal.

Frida G Cavic (imported) wrote: Tue Apr 07, 2015 11:40 am Hunting Eggs easter is not a custom to Roman Catholic Church. It´s an unknown or strange tradition for many. However I´ve seen an increased spread of this tradition in non-religious contexts. We only celebrated Mass, and Easter Sunday also is known for us as "Resurection easter" or "Resurection sunday"

Happy easter,

Yes our minister who has to my knowledge never been Catholic also referred to it as Resurrection Sunday.

River

thank you for the replies.

Frida G Cavic (imported) wrote: Tue Apr 07, 2015 11:03 am The practice of decorating eggshells is ancient, predating Christian traditions.[6] Ostrich eggs with engraved decoration that are 60,000 years old have been found in Africa.[7] Decorated ostrich eggs, and representations of ostrich eggs in gold and silver, were commonly placed in graves of the ancient Sumerians and Egyptians as early as 5,000 years ago.[8]

The Christian custom of the Easter egg, however, can be traced as far back as the early Christians of Mesopotamia, who stained eggs red in memory of the blood of Christ, shed at his crucifixion.[9][10] The Christian Church officially adopted the custom, regarding the eggs as a symbol of the resurrection. The Roman Ritual, the first edition of which was published in 1610 but which contains texts of much older date, has among the Easter Blessings of Food, along with those for lamb, bread, and new produce, a blessing for eggs.

And there is even a egg on the Passover Sedar plate.

All hail the egg

Moi