Easter Alert - 5 April 2026

[me203]

I just think about all the candy that will be on sale Monday morning!

Easter includes Good Friday, Easter, and Easter Candy Half Off Day.

 

[me203]

Pro tip for those with kids: buy next year's Easter basket candy on Monday. If your kids notice it's stale next year, just tell them that even the Easter Bunny needs to econmize now!

 

[NotHardUp1]

I don't think many people take Good Friday off where I live. Fri. afternoon traffic seemed normal, although it could have been people shopping for Easter dinner.

I csn say I made a couple of my very occasional church appearances for the first two nights of the Triduum.
I don't know the church's current size (my memories date to 2019--or one pandemic and one minister change ago). But it seemed like a fair number came for Good Friday, although it was far from what I gues to be the full congregation. I know I didn't see some I know to be Sunday regulars. Attendance was much lower Maundy Thursday. I anticipate Sunday it will be packed.

More Catholics and Episcopalians observe the Triduum. Protestants are few who do, but do turn out Easter Sunday.

No idea about Mormons, but they don't believe in Easter anyway in the same way Catholics and Protestants do. For them, Jesus isn't divine in any singular way, and they certainly do not believe in grace.

 

[NotHardUp1]

Easter includes Good Friday, Easter, and Easter Candy Half Off Day.

They're getting chinchier about that. They begin taking off 10% or 20% and only mark down big cuts on the cheap candies, or the things like M&M's and stuff that was overpriced at 2X before, so half off isn't any savings.

 

[EddMarkStarr]

Easter is linked to Passover according to the Jewish calendar.

So let me give this a try: Easter is the first Sunday > following the first Full Moon > following the first Day of Spring (March 21st).

Easter actually fell on my birthday: 30 March 1975.

 

[jjonn3]

Easter is supposed to be a holiday.

It is very heathenistic for businesses to be open on Easter Sunday.

If these churches want to prove how religious they are they should all be closed on Sundays!

 

[EddMarkStarr]

I've been told that Easter is THE Big Event for the Greek Orthodox Church.

 

[Essex Boy]

President Donald J. Trump's Easter blessing.

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Easter is linked to Passover according to the Jewish calendar.

So let me give this a try: Easter is the first Sunday > following the first Full Moon > following the first Day of Spring (March 21st).

Easter actually fell on my birthday: 30 March 1975.

There's a rhyme to make it easier to remember:
No need for confusion if we but recall
That Easter on the Sunday after the full moon following the vernal equinox doth fall.

 

[me203]

If these churches want to prove how religious they are they should all be closed on Sundays!

But it's unAmerican to close on the best day for business!

 

[me203]

President Donald J. Trump's Easter blessing.

A truly moving and deep spiritual message.

 

[Thad1527]

The day after Easter is when you buy your Halloween candy.
Easter candy gets purchased February 15. That leftover Valentine candy is far fresher.

 

[EddMarkStarr]

 

[rareboy]