Happy Easter

Easter is a holiday that my family and I celebrate every year and I look forward to it. No, it is not on my top list of holidays but it is on my top list of eating during the holiday. After attending sunrise service (which will be blogged about further down in this post) we always eat breakfast casserole. This consists of bread, sausage, a cream of something (I think it is cream of celery), eggs, and cheese. It is so good, I could eat the whole thing! Then our family comes of to our house (perk of having family over, you don't have to go anywhere) and we have a big meal. This year it consisted of ham, cheese potatoes, green beans and ham, chicken noodles, rolls and salad. And of course cannot forget about the deserts, but I don't like pie so I won't talk about them too much. 

Being a Catholic, we attend a Catholic Sunrise Service every year. We go where we are parishioners (sp?) and this year the service was a little blah. Of course the Gospel is always the same but there was no music nor excitement. This is suppose to be one of the most exciting times in our church and there was no excitement at all during the service. I was really disappointed in that. I do not attend mass weekly because I attend a Methodist church on Sunday's, so when the mass was not good, I was really surprised. They used to be glorious services with decorations and loud music but now they are not. I also love to hear the story so I have posted it below here.

The Empty Tomb

John 20:1-9

Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance. So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said "They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don't know where they have put him!"

So Peter and the other disciple started for the tomb. Both were running but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. He bent over and looked in at the strips of linen lying there but did not go in. Then Simon Peter, who was behind him, arrived and went into the tomb. He saw the strips of linen lying there, as well as the burial cloth that had been around Jesus' head. The cloth was folded up by itself, separate from the linen. Finally the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went inside. He saw and believed. (They still did not understand from Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead).