On the third day he rose again in accordance with the Scriptures...

[julesjones]

And I celebrate this with a chocolate easter egg, a symbol that manages to combine the secular, the pagan, the Christian -- and the hedonist. I'm just fine with that, thanks. :-)

But for some years now it has been Fairtrade easter eggs on my shopping list. It's not feasible to ensure that each and every thing I buy is completely ethical; the world market is too entangled to achieve that. But chocolate is, when all is said and done, a luxury good that I can readily live without if need be. And one where it is now very easy to make a choice that moves away from exploitation of the poor.

Whether or not I take the words of the Nicene Creed literally (and there are many days when I do not), one of the things which I believe always and ever is that the man who died upon the cross did so to bring a message which is worth listening to. A message which is summarised in the Great Commandment: "You shall love your neighbour as yourself."

These people are my neighbours. Choosing my easter eggs on whether the cacao growers got a fair contract is one way to be able to say, "Lord, when did I see you hungry, and feed you?" A fitting symbol for his life and death, I think.

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Easter Celebration

[sweetheartwhale.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid we celebrated by eating stuffed rabbit - it proved difficult to carve so there was a medieval free for all with people and cats piling in on equal terms.Cleo and I had hold of one end of a rabbit leg each and shared nicely. But we did have easter egg ( dark chocolate, fairtrade) afterwards :-)

Re: Easter Celebration

[julesjones]

Rabbit's not the easiest thing to carve -- I think the only way to cook it is to casserole it until the meat is falling off the bones. But it's an appropriate sumbol for the religious festivals of new life around this time of year.