Welcome to Easter 2014

In Belgium and in many other countries we can see around us, in the shops and on social media that more and more attention is given to a time of celebration with gifts. Everything turns more around the material gift instead of the spiritual gift of blessings and of the Grace given to humankind.

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In this writing:

1. Easter about big rabbit who invaded home and left candy everywhere
2. large meals (usually brunch) or fancy dinner
3. materialization of goods at Easter.
4. like Christmas, Easter =  becoming about how much money can be spend on children or grand children
5. Holiday’s = disguise Needs as gifts
6. when do we draw the line?
7. Easter has (like Christmas) lost it’s true meaning over the years
8. Generations trying to compensate for what they never had?
9. Trying to “be the parent you mother/father wasn’t”?
10. holiday become just another money grab.

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ColleenKnapp92

Easter^{[nb 1]} (Old English Ēostre; Latin: Pascha; Greek Πάσχα Paskha, the latter two derived from Hebrew: פֶּסַח‎ Pesaḥ^[4]) is aChristian festival and holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ on the third day after his crucifixion at Calvary as described in the New Testament.^[5][6] Easter is the culmination of the Passion of Christ, preceded by Lent, a forty-day period of fasting, prayer, and penance. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter )

Now, I’m not of religious views, so when I was a child Easter was about a big rabbit who invaded your home and left candy everywhere. Then the family would gather around for large meals (usually brunch) or a fancy dinner and just enjoy what the Easter Bunny brought us. Talk, and have family time. But I’ve noticed something that disturbs me…

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