Happy Easter season to everyone out there!

I'm really bummed that I didn't get to go to/sing at Easter mass in our church this year. Since Easter just happened to be on the beginning of our spring break instead of the end, we're visiting family right now. But it sounds like you had a beautiful mass!

I feel really sorry about your brother, Choca. Prayers go to you! (I'm Catholic in case you didn't know.)

It's funny, but I actually celebrated both Passover and Easter this season! Since Passover is technically also Catholic, in my youth ministry (like catechism, but for teens) we celebrated Passover by having an adapted Seder meal! It wasn't full length, just the section about the plagues, but it was interesting because it had more about Jesus and other more Catholic, less Jewish things, but we still got to appreciate the Jewish beliefs. It was cool! Anyone here Jewish? 

Hi Air! No, I didn't know you were Catholic, but it's great to know! (I don't often use hashtags, but: #CatholicAwesomeness) I read some stuff earlier in the year about how the Seder meal is connected to the Eucharist. It was really interesting! Thank you for the sympathy about the miscarriage. I guess it wasn't very kind of me to bring you all down; I'm just feeling really sad right now and wanted to talk about it.

My church has a youth group too, and we do youth Masses. I had no clue we had so much in common, wow! I've wanted to get to know you, cause I really admire the way you write on the Post-Apocalyptic RP, which I am in. So yay!  

I'm nonreligious, so I don't even celebrate Chritmas (but I do do New Years!) or Easter much, but hey, that isn't an excuse not to dye some eggs! Eggs are fun to dye! My mom, 3-year-old sis, and myself dyed eggs. We don't use food coloring (CANCERONGENIC GUNK!) but you can dye eggs with it anyway. We used brown eggs because those were the only ones in the fridge, but they all turned out nice. We have two red eggs two blue eggs, two green eggs, and one brown-yellow egg. We wanted to dye it yellow, then added some green dye and made the dye chartreuse, but it wouldnt cooperate and turned out an off-brown. Oh well, live and learn! :)

I don't have much time w/ meh, so I only have time to say this: 

Cathlioc is NOT the same is Christian. Cathlioc is a TYPE of Christian. I am another type. Presbyterian. I still celebrate Easter and all because I'm still Christian but Lent my church doesn't do. Sorry if this sounded rude, but some people think they are synonyms, and they most certainly are not. I hate when I tell people I'm not Catholic and they're all like "So you don't believe in God." But I do. If ya don't, I don't mean to offend you cuz that's perfectly fine.  

I love Easter. It's probably my favorite holiday. In the morning, around 6:30, we leave to go to a pond a few miles away to meet my church. Then we'll have  "Sonrise" service by the lake/pond/thing. After that, the people who came to the service come to this awesome little diner. That was great, except one waitess kept calling me chicky. That was annoying. 

Then we go home, put on nice clothes, and go to church for the regular service. After that we have a big dinner (and I mean dinner, like a midafternoon meal, not supper) with friends and familly.

I am Baptist.  I have the same experience you guys have all the time. People ask me if I believe in God, I say yes, then they say, so you're Catholic. 

No.

If I believe in God, I could be Jewish, Muslim, Christian, Catholic, or a religion with many gods.

My church uses Lent as a time of meditation, but we don't give anything up for it.  

Your sister's birthday was on Easter? My little sister's birthday was on Easter too!!!

My Easter was fantastic! It was simple, but nice.

The day before Easter, my family went to a reenactment of the story of Jesus' miracles, persecution, death, and finally His Resurrection. At the end, the man who played Jesus came up to each person in the group, shook hands, looked each person straight in the eye while smiling and said, "For you". It was very moving and I was deeply grateful we'd gone to do it! I hope to go every year.

I'm a Presbyterian, but I didn't go to church on Sunday simply because a LOT of people come to our church on Easter, and it's hard to find seating or anything. So I had home service, but I like it that way. It gave me time for self-meditation, and what the death and resurrection of Christ really meant for me. 

My family then gave me my Easter basket, some candy like Reece eggs, Starburst jelly beans, Jolly Ranchers, and sour gummy bunnies. My parents also got me a stuffed Toothless dragon!!!!!!! (He's SO cute!) Anyway, as tradition in my family, we spent the afternoon dying Easter eggs! This is one of my favorite Easter traditions just cause it brings my family together, it really bring about the feeling and joy of Easter, and I love the vibrancy of the colors cause of course they remind me of spring and new life.

I then spent most of the afternoon watching the Love Comes Softly movie marathon, as well as some of the episodes from last season's When Calls the Heart. (Anybody else watch these? They're actually pretty good, the plotline aside from the romance is actually really interesting. Plus, they take place back in about the 1880's.)

Finally, my family wrapped up the night with homemade fried chicken and fries, keylime pie, and brownies! 

So over all I enjoyed my Easter immensely!

@ The Chocabookaholic: I'm glad your Easter was so nice as well! I do still feel for you and your family about your brother. You're still in my prayers.

@ hotairballoon: It's alright to discuss our faiths as long as we aren't attacking anyone. We've done it many times before without upseting anyone. I have many times openly expressed and discussed how I'm a Christian.

Well . . . my Easter went interestingly. We didn't go to church since we only go about once a month (because church is about a two hour's drive away, so it's not realy possible to go every Sunday) and because my grandparents invited us over to celebrate with our step family, like we always do.

Aaaaand we were so psyched about going and hunting for eggs and dying eggs and playing chess and stuff with my stepcousins, and we wake up Easter morning, and it's raining. Pretty steadily. But hey, a little rain's not going to stop this family from going to Granpa's house. So we piled into the car (with extra paris of rainboots in the car) and off we went. 

Because of the rain, we didn't hunt for eggs, but we did dye eggs inside. It was a bit too crowded, so I gave up my place as egg-dyer, and promoted myself to family photographer. And honestly, I think that was pretty fun. We divided up the eggs (plasic and dyed) among the kids, and our grandparents gave us Easter presents. My grandmother made some turkey and ham and dressing among other dishes, so we had an Easter/Thanksgiving meal for lunch - and it was pretty good! 

My stepcousins and I played sone games and talked and generally had fun inside for the rest of the afternoon, and then we went home. All in all, it wasn't the best Easter ever (because I personally like to get outside once in a while) but it definitely wasn't the worst. 

And since we're discussing religious preference,  I'll mention that although I do celebrate Christmas and Easter, I'm not a Christian. My father grew up Christian, but my family is a Unificationist.Yes, we believe in God. In many ways, it's similar to Christianity, I think, but in many more ways, it's different. By chance (what little there is) is any one a Unificationist here? Or, has anyone ever heard of this? I'm curious because the only time I've met another Unificationist is at church or through my parents. 

But anyways, Happy Easter, everbody!