[Χριστος Ανεστη! Happy Easter to everyone celebrating it today[*]!]
"We should be taking steps to celebrate Easter in creative
new ways: in art, literature, children's games, poetry, music,
dance, festivals, bells, special concerts, anything that comes to
mind. This is our greatest festival. Take Christmas away, and in
biblical terms you lose two chapters at the front of Matthew and
Luke, nothing else. Take Easter away, and you don't have a New
Testament; you don;t have a Christianity... This is our greatest
day. We should put the flags out." -- Tom Wright
[thanks to
marnanel
for quoting
it yesterday]
[1] Orthodox Easter is next Sunday. (The spacing between Western Easter and Orthodox Easter varies from year to year. Some years, they're on the same day. Next year they're more than a month apart.)