Easter

[yrneh1938]

WHEN DOES EASTER START

[elliemay1]

1st April, Sunday

[Prudie]

Same time as last time
https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Home-and-Garden/Question1594908.html

[Buenchico]

The Easter weekend starts next Friday, as it's Good Friday.

[Jackdaw33]

That's what it's called colloquially but liturgically it is incorrect. Good Friday and Saturday are still part of Lent.

[pixie374]

The Easter holidays start Thursday, if that helps.

[Peter Pedant]

Good Friday and Holy Saturday please

I dunno - midnight easter smash ( er mass sozza) when the words The Lord is Risen ring out

http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/events/event.dir.html/content/vaticanevents/en/2017/4/16/messa-pasqua.html

or at the consecration....

by the way - hagios christos is heard in the Latin Mass - and these are the only words of koine Greek left in the Mass before it all went English
The other bit is Kyrie Eleison in the part of the Mass called er Kyrie Eleison ( Lord have mercy on us)

easter saturday is not the day before ( holy saturday ) but six days after.

[Jackdaw33]

Although the day after Good Friday is universally called Easter Saturday, from a church point of view it is Easter Eve, Easter Saturday being the following Saturday.

[Peter Pedant]

The last day of easter week - the day before low sunday.
The week previously - the one we are in now - is Passion Week.

[Jackdaw33]

Yes, and next week is Holy Week.

[Peter Pedant]

you know I think we have told our 'enry
far more about roman catholic liturgy than he ever wanted to know

[Jackdaw33]

Not only RC liturgy, Anglican too, and probably other protestant churches with which I am unfamiliar.

[Tilly2]

Easter Sunday is Easter Day. That's Easter.

[jourdain2]

Tomorrow (25/3) is Palm Sunday, that is when Easter (so far as I am aware, and concerned) starts. Jesus riding into Jerusalem on a donkey with crowds waving palm leaves and cheering him. Then there is the whole drama of Easter week - last supper, betrayal, imprisonment, Pontius Pilate freeing Barabbas etc. all leading to Good Friday when Jesus was crucified. Easter Sunday follows when he rose again, the stone was found rolled away from the tomb etc..
Easter Monday is - quite frankly I'm not too sure, I'd have to look it up, but a day of assimilation and celebration possibly. Best I can do off the cuff without going into a lot of detail.

[Jackdaw33]

I doubt many Anglican priests would agree with you. Easter does not begin till Easter Sunday. Easter Monday and Tuesday are holy days of obligation in the BCP but alas that his gone out of the window these days.

[Jackdaw33]

Anyone recall the old Northern rhyme counting the days in Lent up to Easter?

'Tid, Mid, Miseray,
Carling, Palm, Paste-egg day'.

[Tilly2]

No, Jackdaw. I don't know that.

[Mamyalynne]

Yes, mentioned here

http://www.heritageandhistory.com/contents1a/2010/04/carlin-peas-a-northern-tradition/?doing_wp_cron=1521926429.5027110576629638671875

[Jackdaw33]

It is very much a Northern thing. These were the names of Sundays in Lent. The fourth Sunday, Mothering Sunday or Refreshment Sunday, is omitted from the rhyme as that was a day when Lenten restrictions were relaxed.

[jourdain2]

I'm quite sure your are correct, Jackdaw, but that is how it feels here. There is egg-painting and rolling by the kids to organise etc., etc.. Also the flower-arrangers get busy next week, our - 11thC foundation - church always looks wonderful. I'll ask the vicar on Sunday, assuming the donkey turns up, so we can process through the village behind it, and she is in a good mood! The difference between pragmatism and church law, I suppose. :)

[jourdain2]

'Carlin Peas'! There is a shop in Driffield which has a sign saying that it is the home of Carlin Peas. Fascinating, I'll try to remember to follow it up - I have to go to Driffield next week.