Did you go to church today?

Last week I was derided at work because I said I didn't plan on attending services today.

Oh, well............

There's more GOD at work there than at any church

What's so funny is, the two who got on my case got into a screaming match late Friday afternoon.

You could hear them all the way down the hall!!!

It was a fucking hoot!!!!

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That's what my Dad used to say. That he felt closer to god working in his garden than he ever did in a church.

It would be rather hypocritical of me to show up. One I am a Deist and don't trust organized religion and two, I never show up any other time so why now. Besides if I want to truely see God's work going out in nature is a far better place to do it.

Big meanies! :D

My father-in-law is visiting and prior to his arrival wanted to attend church today. Unfortunately he forgot his suit. And he won't go to church without a suit. So I was all ready to take him and he decided not to go.

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I have treated this day as every other day...I don't feel any day is more sacred than another. Jesus was a great man...but I bet if you had asked him whether or not to make this day a holiday...he would have said no.

I am finishing up a kitchen flooring project. Then I am going to visit my Father in Law and watch MSU beat Kentucky. :-)

I watched Sunday Morning, and walked the dog.. very spiritual experience to walk the dog :-)

So i'm sitting here in my office babysitting the company on a day when nobody is going to visit or call.

I could be getting ready to watch the UNC basketball game, but noooooooo.......

I'm stuck here.

I told the guy (a minister at a nondenominational church) that Easter is the one time I will surely NOT be at church because the pastor always hits all the talking points of the gospel for the people who only go to church on Easter and Christmas.

I didn't tell him that I went to an Ostara ritual last Saturday and was going to celebrate the esbat on Friday.

My husband just told me today he's an atheist so we shouldn't have Easter dinner for the kids today. How weird is that? He went to Catholic school and was an altar boy; what's he doing telling me he's an atheist when he's 52 years old? He never mentioned it before. I know that's off topic, but I'm a little stunned.

How weird is that? Very weird. Is this some kind of mid-life crisis thing?

Talk about interfering with a personal decision.

We had our full moon two nights ago. Celebrating that constituted our services -- including a nod to Oestara, the pagan goddess after whom Easter is named.

cheers!

I don't know. It's better than the "non-denominational" evangelical churches.

I should know.

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now, KNEEL BEFORE ZOD!!!!!

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and first communion at the Easter Vigil.

and I haven't run into many adults who were baptized in their later years.

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I hope it was a special moment for you. :hi:

God, I hate it when Dana Carvey's "Church Lady" becomes real. :puke:

Sorry about that. That was decidedly "un-Christian-like" behavior.

In answer to your question: Yes. Three different services. I am tired. :boring:

n/t

I'm all Eastered out!

And my church back home stopped doing them about ten years ago, so it's been a while since I've been to one.

This one was at 8 am, so it really wasn't a sunrise one. One church I went to had real sunrise ones, at 6:00 or 6:30 am, and did them outside.

I liked those. But even at 8 am, I like them - I like the liturgy of bringing the Christ candle inside from outside, and decorating the sanctuary and turning the lights on in the sanctuary and etc.

Very moving.

Our early service is at 8:30.

Your service sounds like it was nice.

I'm out of town or sick or the kids are sick.

Which is church to me, since I go every Sunday morning. ;)