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For Christians this is the most important day of the year. All life and all hope flows from it.

But there are plenty of ways to celebrate without coming to a draughty Victorian building. So why not stay at home, have a lie in, have sex and eat some chocolate.

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Originally posted by cor ad cor loquitur:
So why not stay at home, have a lie in, have sex and eat some chocolate.

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Are there any weary with fasting? Let them now receive their wages! If any have toiled from the first hour, let them receive their due reward; if any have come after the third hour, let him with gratitude join in the Feast! And he that arrived after the sixth hour, let him not doubt; for he too shall sustain no loss. And if any delayed until the ninth hour, let him not hesitate; but let him come too. And he who arrived only at the eleventh hour, let him not be afraid by reason of his delay.

Let us all enter into the joy of the Lord! First and last alike receive your reward; rich and poor, rejoice together! Sober and slothful, celebrate the day!

You that have kept the fast, and you that have not, rejoice today for the Table is richly laden! Feast royally on it, the calf is a fatted one. Let no one go away hungry. Partake, all, of the cup of faith. Enjoy all the riches of His goodness!

Let no one mourn that he has fallen again and again; for forgiveness has risen from the grave.

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Vicar from Hove: But there are plenty of ways to celebrate without coming to a draughty Victorian building. So why not stay at home, have a lie in, have sex and eat some chocolate.

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Originally posted by mousethief:
[QBthere are people who fast for Lent. They're called Orthodox. [/QB]

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Hence the sodding indigestion when the Easter feasting begins...

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Originally posted by gorpo:
Do people actually fast during Lent, or even on Good Friday these days?

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Originally posted by gorpo:
Easter and Christmas are those rare occasions when people who usually don´t go to church will attend - so why miss this opportunity? For example, this morning my brother and his girlfriend went to church with us for the first time in almost 2 years, and he said the music was fine and much better then he expected, and he might consider going to church a little more often from now on.

So a vicar telling people that going to church on Easter Sunday is not really important is really not the most wise thing to say. Dates like Christmas and Easter already have very little to do with christianity these days - so it isn´t necessary that clergymen make an effort to de-christianize those dates even more!

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there are people who fast for Lent. They're called Orthodox.

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I think you'll find that not only the Orthodox fast for Lent - formally and informally.

Hence the sodding indigestion when the Easter feasting begins...

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Originally posted by JJSchmidt:
It is quite a right-on church. Hosted Peter Tatchell, that well-known Christian (shome mishtake shurely?), on 'Equal Love' a couple of weeks ago.

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Originally posted by ken:
"I took the vicar's advice and stayed at home and had chocolate and sex. My wife was furious when she got home from church and found out".

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Originally posted by AristonAstuanax:
Now, the fact that said preacher told his congregants to spend the day sleeping and fucking if they wanted—and got a congregation of 300—tells us something. I'm going with that "something" being that there are 300 people who think, perhaps rightly, going to church on Easter morning is better than getting it on, but you may draw your own conclusions.

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Originally posted by AristonAstuanax:

I'm going with that "something" being that there are 300 people who think, perhaps rightly, going to church on Easter morning is better than getting it on, but you may draw your own conclusions.

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Today is a normal working day were I am.

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Where-ever you are on any normal working day.


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Originally posted by mousethief:
Does anybody worship God anymore? Find God worth worshiping, even? On the one day in the year that is dedicated to the greatest event in our faith, isn't it worth worshiping God?

What a sad thing we are become.

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Often reading some of these threads the answer seems to be clearly 'no' - even for many Christians. We go if it's worth our while, if we're going to be entertained and engaged and not having our precious time wasted by listening to sermons that don't personally 'do' anything for us, singing hymns that don't suit our needs, and speaking liturgy that's full of other people's prayers - so obviously not up to our standard - though communion is sometimes worth the hassle of getting out of bed for apparently. If it's the kind of bread, wine, style, language, timing, etc that we would prefer. Obviously. In perfect accordance with Jesus' instructions to his disciples when he said, 'do this in remembrance of me... but only if you feel like it and it doesn't put you out too much.'

Because all these things are about us and how we feel and whether it's worthy of us as consumers, having paid for the product with the currency of our valuable attention and time. Worship as God's worthiness of our effort to share fellowship and publicly witness to him?

Don't be silly, Mousethief!

Ref: OP, nothing much wrong with it, in one sense. But I don't see why we can't worship at church and do all those other interesting things as well*. (Well, the things that actually are an option!)

(*When I say 'as well', I don't mean actually go to church and do all those other things, at the same time!)

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Ref: OP, nothing much wrong with it, in one sense. But I don't see why we can't worship at church and do all those other interesting things as well*. (Well, the things that actually are an option!)

(*When I say 'as well', I don't mean actually go to church and do all those other things, at the same time!)

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Worship as God's worthiness of our effort to share fellowship and publicly witness to him?

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But there are plenty of ways to celebrate without coming to a draughty Victorian building. So why not stay at home, have a lie in, have sex and eat some chocolate.

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That is just a weird thing to say. I suspect he said that to try to get attention and maybe get more people to come to his congregation. But if I was a normal goer there, I would choose a different church after hearing him say that. No that any of those things are wrong (provided you are married), but it seems to represent a very casual attitude towards Christ's resurrection.

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So, I'm only allowed to stay home, have a lie-in and eat chocolate if I'm married?

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That is just a weird thing to say. I suspect he said that to try to get attention and maybe get more people to come to his congregation.

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In one of the articles I read, the vicar said it was just a throwaway comment amongst lots of other things he said, but of the course the press (being the press) chose that one thing to pick up on.

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In one of the articles I read, the vicar said it was just a throwaway comment amongst lots of other things he said, but of the course the press (being the press) chose that one thing to pick up on.

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ISTM that there are two ways to read the vicar's remark -- that every time he opens his moouth, idiocy comes out, and the press just happened to latch on to this random bit of inanity; or that he said a lot of boring crap and one thing that was of any interest whatsoever, and those silly reporters chose to print the thing that had some chance of being read. Either way, the "explanation" seems to be a bit dodgy...

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@Twangist - you want to hear St John Chryostom? Attend an Orthodox Easter Vigil and you'll hear the famous Easter homily.

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I won't pry and ask Mousethief to confirm, but I've heard that some Orthodox couples fast from sex during Lent.

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@Twangist - you want to hear St John Chryostom? Attend an Orthodox Easter Vigil and you'll hear the famous Easter homily. They read it every time. I'm not sure if they tire of hiring it. I've heard it a few times at Orthodox Vigils and I don't ...

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No that any of those things are wrong (provided you are married)...

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No that any of those things are wrong (provided you are married)...

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Not saying that this is what happened, but it's disturbingly common in general, so I find it odd that you wouldn't even consider the possibility.

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'But there are plenty of ways to celebrate without coming to a draughty Victorian building. So why not stay at home, have a lie in, have sex and eat some chocolate.'

NOW he tells us !

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Some of us do appear to be a bit slower than others in fully taking up this 'New Theology'.


Perhaps we should all metaphorically join hands and together send out a silent prayer for those physically impeded from doing either?

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