Silent Servants...: Easter

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Wednesday, April 04, 2012

Good Advice

The bitter truth behind the chocolate in your Easter basket

"The average American eats around 11 pounds of chocolate each year, and the weeks leading up to Easter show the second biggest United States sales spike of the year next to Halloween - 71 million pounds according to a 2009 Neilsen report. A recent press release from Kraft claims that worldwide, more consumers purchase chocolate during Easter than any other season.

So how does a chocolate lover ensure that the treats filling their family's Easter baskets are not supporting a life of slavery for a child half a world away?"

Sunday, April 24, 2011

And a warm wish and reminder

Happy Easter, Anonymous, and don't forget to please give us a call when you're in town so we can get together!

Don't work too hard this weekend!

Thursday, April 21, 2011

In time for Easter

How to cook perfect hot cross buns

"Which modern additions to hot cross buns do you approve of and what do you eat them with?"

I had my first seasonal hot cross buns last weekend...

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Tomorrow

begins the

Easter Triduum,

culminating in an empty tomb as pictured to the right, but I'm getting ahead of myself. May the rest of your Holy Week be truly holy and may it bring you closer to the living God. May you all be blessed with every good thing, with love, with peace, with a closer walk with God and with everlasting life.

Really,

this will only make sense (or make complete sense) to those who follow Catholic websites and blogs on a regular basis, but it's interesting. I've posted peripherally to the issue in the recent past.

I'm having an Amy Welborn Moment

Mark, a convert to the Catholic faith, takes a very even and intelligent stance on all things Catholic. Here he's responding to an 'internet hysteria' situation regarding an item that arose a while ago. He explains 'an Amy Welborn Moment' quite well and it will be intelligible to those familiar or unfamiliar with the intelligent and faithful Amy Welborn.

I'm going to have to come up with a 'he's my hero' graphic' for links I do to Mr. Shea's blog. I really like his thinking...

Friday, April 15, 2011

Further evidence

that another holiday that came about because of Christian belief (at least in the New World) is now relegated to something shallow and pointless...

US Easter ad banned for mentioning Jesus

I mean, honestly! Don't we all know that Easter is really about candies and chocolate and bunnies and sales and that sort of thing - a Spring frolic, kind of - and has nothing to do with the death and resurrection of Jesu... oops! I mean, anyone?

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Statistics...

 Most Americans Consider Easter a Religious Holiday, But Fewer Correctly Identify its Meaning

Thank goodness only 1% think the Easter Bunny is the reason for Easter...

I worry about people more and more every day. I think this is why I relate to animals so much better...