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And it's lend me ten pounds and I'll buy you a drink
Happy St. Patrick's Day to those non-Catholics out there. To the Catholics, happy Holy Week, I guess - you had St. Patrick's Day on Friday, due to its falling during Holy Week for the first time since 1940. I've no real issue with the Church switching the day, since it is a saint's day. Sure, most people just use it as an excuse to drink copious amounts of alcohol and wear the color I look fabulous in the rest of the year, but it started out as celebration of Ireland's patron saint, not a celebration of inebriation and wannabe Irish folk.
At any rate, seems that the cause of all this confusion regadling St. Pat's (the South Side parade here in Chicago even happened a week early, due to the usual day of the parade falling on Palm Sunday this year) stems from Easter (a.k.a. Zombie Jesus Day) being so early. I've been unsure of the reason why Easter is so early this year, not being in the know about how the date of Easter is determined. But now I know: Easter is celebrated on the Sunday immediately following the Paschal Full Moon. So apparently it's the Paschal Full Moon that's come early this year, necessitating that Easter come early. And I must say, I find this quite pagan way of setting the date of a Christian holiday quite interesting. Another way the Church founders used early pagan rituals to determine when they would celebrate Christian holidays.
Speaking of the Church, did you hear we have 7 more deadly sins to worry about according to the Vatican? The original 7 are, of course: lust, gluttony, avarice, sloth, wrath, envy and pride. (I confess right now, I have been guilty of all 7 at one time or another.) The new sins include: polluting, genetic engineering, being obscenely wealthy, taking/dealing drugs, abortion, pedophilia, and causing social injustice. Hmm. Seems to me the Vatican is quite guilty itself of some of those.
okayAt any rate, seems that the cause of all this confusion regadling St. Pat's (the South Side parade here in Chicago even happened a week early, due to the usual day of the parade falling on Palm Sunday this year) stems from Easter (a.k.a. Zombie Jesus Day) being so early. I've been unsure of the reason why Easter is so early this year, not being in the know about how the date of Easter is determined. But now I know: Easter is celebrated on the Sunday immediately following the Paschal Full Moon. So apparently it's the Paschal Full Moon that's come early this year, necessitating that Easter come early. And I must say, I find this quite pagan way of setting the date of a Christian holiday quite interesting. Another way the Church founders used early pagan rituals to determine when they would celebrate Christian holidays.
Speaking of the Church, did you hear we have 7 more deadly sins to worry about according to the Vatican? The original 7 are, of course: lust, gluttony, avarice, sloth, wrath, envy and pride. (I confess right now, I have been guilty of all 7 at one time or another.) The new sins include: polluting, genetic engineering, being obscenely wealthy, taking/dealing drugs, abortion, pedophilia, and causing social injustice. Hmm. Seems to me the Vatican is quite guilty itself of some of those.