How do you plan on celebrating Easter this weekend?

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Right now, it's looking like options 2, 4 and 8 for me.  It'll pretty much be an ordinary Sunday.

[Joe Biden 2020]

I'm going to Stillwater tomorrow afternoon for Good Friday services with at my girlfriend's church and then my own church Sunday morning and Sunday evening.  We haven't talked about dinner on Sunday, yet.  So, Options 2 and 3 for me.

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

I'll go to the greek church for hours and hours and then drink wine until 4am on Saturday night/Sunday morning. After Saturday night, I'll finally be able to eat red meat again.

Sunday I have reservations out, and I really hope they serve lamb.

[bedstuy]

Practicing my mah nishtanah.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

We usually don’t have a big gathering for Easter, but this year it’s huge. My mom’s aunt (my great aunt, of course), her daughter (my mom’s cousin) and her two kids (my second cousins, who are basically to close my brothers and I as my mom is to her cousin), as well as my great uncle and his sister. Also my mom’s brother, his wife, and his two little girls are coming, as well as my dad’s sister, her husband, and her son. Furthermore, my late grandmother’s cousin’s widow, her son, his girlfriend, and his daughter, and my mother’s psychopath friend and her daughter are also coming. Oh yeah, and my grandma of course.

This last paragraph was strangely hard to word.

Anywho, were gonna have dinner and hang about here. My brother is coming home from the group home Saturday night, and he loves family gatherings. He’s gonna be so surprised to see everybody, especially our relatives from Virginia who are down. I’m stoked to see my two baby cousins in particular (I haven’t met the younger one who was born in December).

I’ll try to go to Church, but I know I’m probably gonna sleep in anyway, so it might not happen. Maybe I’ll invite my best friend and his mom and brother over if they don’t have plans, but he has been hard to get into contact with as of late and he might be at his dads.

[Ebowed]

Well I've landed an unpaid four day weekend, so I'll be sitting at home and drinking a lot, I imagine.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Nothing much.

[Eraserhead]

Where is the option for "working all day and night"? That's what I'll be doing.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Fifteen voters so far and only two are smoking pot?  I find that hard to believe.

[MaxQue]

Family supper.

[Indy Texas]

My parents informed me that they were spending the 3-day weekend out of town. So no family dinner. And I don't go to church. Maybe Sunday morning I'll have a solo Easter brunch that will consist of me scrambling eggs and drinking Bloody Marys.

[Lief 🗽]

Well I'm not religious and it's 420 soooo

[Miles]

Other tradition: Having crawfish with my relatives

[publicunofficial]

Nothing + weed

[Oldiesfreak1854]

I voted Options 2-5 inclusive.  I don't know for sure what I'll be doing, but I think we'll be having a special dinner, and I may want to go to a church service with my aunt and uncle.  They recently joined the LCMS church in my hometown, but they usually go to the contemporary service in the church school's gym.  I always preferred traditional services (although their contemporary service is very well-done), so I may not do that.  My church never has any special holiday services, so I'm usually forced to go to a non-SDA church if I want it.  Either way, I do plan on watching Good Friday and Easter services online and/or on TV.

Other tradition: Having crawfish with my relatives

I've never had crawfish (and don't plan on it since I'm not supposed to eat it), but this is a tradition I can like.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Sunrise service at the Lutheran church I go to bible study on Wednesdays.  (It actually starts before sunrise in the graveyard and go inside the church right at sunrise.)  Then after breakfast, including the obligatory chocolate bunny  (I don't eat much candy, but I make an exception for chocolate Easter bunnies.), it'll be time to head off to my UU church for their Easter service.  And yes, I do mean Easter service, not the Flower Communion some UU churches substitute for Easter.  I find that distasteful as I feel celebrating Flower Communion as an ersatz Easter is disrespectful to both Christianity and Unitarian Universalism.  (I actually had the opportunity to organize a Flower Communion for my UU church earlier this month, and in the process became convinced that treating it as an ersatz Easter is a major mistake.)

[Lief 🗽]

Ernest why do you go to two different churches?

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

Enjoying the beginning of 10 days off work (since Good Friday is a public holiday here)... and doing anything 'special' or religious would be a touch hypocritical... yet I still feel the need to eat seafood on Good Friday.

[nuclearneo577]

Likely doing stuff related to preparing for the job that I got yesterday. And yard work.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Ernest why do you go to two different churches?

Because I am a Christian Universalist without a church which hews to that position nearby, so I go to the UU church to deal with the Universalist aspect of my soul and to Christian churches for things such as bible study that at least at present I am unable to obtain at the UU church I go to. (It's fairly small, so aside from one monthly spirituality forum, they only have the weekly service with no pre-church study groups.  The one in Columbia is larger and closer, but is not to my taste for a number of reasons.)  There were some Universalist churches that did not participate in the merger of the Unitarians and Universalists, but the closest are in North Carolina and I'm smack dab in the middle of the Midlands.

But actually, it's more than two churches.  Where I go for Wednesday bible study is close to home and thus convenient for that, but as I pointed out, my UU church doesn't have a Sunday school and is some distance from me.  There's no way I could go to Sunday school at a church near me and make it to my UU church, yet I do want to go to Sunday school, so I do that at another church about midway between where I live and the UU church.  My normal Sunday routine is to leave home no later than 8:45, Sunday school from 9:30 to 10:15 (they start their Sunday service at 10:30) and then get to my UU church in plenty of time for the 11:00 service.  I get back home around 1:00 most Sundays, 2:00 on the first Sunday of the month when my UU church has a pot luck after the service.

As I think I have mentioned before, my UU church does not hold a service on the fourth Sunday of each month, so I typically use that Sunday to attend the service at one of the Christian churches I regularly visit for Bible study and Sunday school.

[H. Ross Peron]

I'm baking Viennese chocolate cakes laced with pot and decorated with Easter eggs.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

Ernest why do you go to two different churches?

Because I am a Christian Universalist without a church which hews to that position nearby, so I go to the UU church to deal with the Universalist aspect of my soul and to Christian churches for things such as bible study that at least at present I am unable to obtain at the UU church I go to. (It's fairly small, so aside from one monthly spirituality forum, they only have the weekly service with no pre-church study groups.  The one in Columbia is larger and closer, but is not to my taste for a number of reasons.)  There were some Universalist churches that did not participate in the merger of the Unitarians and Universalists, but the closest are in North Carolina and I'm smack dab in the middle of the Midlands.

But actually, it's more than two churches.  Where I go for Wednesday bible study is close to home and thus convenient for that, but as I pointed out, my UU church doesn't have a Sunday school and is some distance from me.  There's no way I could go to Sunday school at a church near me and make it to my UU church, yet I do want to go to Sunday school, so I do that at another church about midway between where I live and the UU church.  My normal Sunday routine is to leave home no later than 8:45, Sunday school from 9:30 to 10:15 (they start their Sunday service at 10:30) and then get to my UU church in plenty of time for the 11:00 service.  I get back home around 1:00 most Sundays, 2:00 on the first Sunday of the month when my UU church has a pot luck after the service.

As I think I have mentioned before, my UU church does not hold a service on the fourth Sunday of each month, so I typically use that Sunday to attend the service at one of the Christian churches I regularly visit for Bible study and Sunday school.

I've probably said this before... but you're a fascinating creature.

[morgieb]

Eating a meat roast for Good Friday #thuglife

[Tender Branson]

A mix of 1, 3, 4 and 7.

[Keystone Phil]

Church (normal), visiting a lot of family/friends, special dinner (note my heritage) and watching Easter TV specials (Passion of the Christ)