Should Apostolic Churches Have Easter Egg Hunts?

[LadyCoonskinner]

Originally Posted by BoredOutOfMyMind

Only if she bops him hard enough with the pan to knock teeth out.

[rrford]

Originally Posted by LadyCoonskinner

Are you whinnin or something?

Maybe if you come preach, I'll let you and the Skinner have your own egg hunt....

Oh, you mean you won't fix breakfast?











Just like last time.

[BoredOutOfMyMind]

Originally Posted by LadyCoonskinner

Are you whinnin or something?

Maybe if you come preach, I'll let you and the Skinner have your own egg hunt....

Involves paper bags and sticks...... wait that is snipe hunting!

Nevermind.

[SDG]

What's tomorrow???

[LadyCoonskinner]

Originally Posted by Trouvere

Just for Lady Coonskinner:
I spelled it wrong in the other post.
In Ancient Rome, February 14th was a holiday to honor Juno, Queen of the Roman Gods and Goddesses. The Feast of Lupercalia started the next day.


During these times boys and girls were segregated. However, the young people had a custom that began on the eve of the Festival of Lupercalia. The girl’s names were written on pieces of paper and inserted into jars. Each boy then drew a girl’s name from the jar and they were partners throughout the Festival. After being paired, the children would often continue to see each other throughout the year and on occasion even fell in love and got married.



Emperor Claudius II of Rome, also known as Claudius the Cruel was having a difficult time recruiting men as soldiers. He believed that the men did not want to leave their sweethearts and cancelled all engagements and marriages throughout Rome. St. Valentine, a priest of Rome at the time, secretly married couples. He was eventually caught, arrested and condemned. He was beaten to death and beheaded on February 14th, around the year 270.


Lupercalia was a feast to a heathen God. Pastors and priests of the early Christian church did away with the pagan custom by replacing the names of the girls with the names of saints. They chose St. Valentine’s Day as the day of celebration for the new feast.

Valentine Day greetings became popular during the middles ages. During that time period, lovers sang or spoke their sentiments. Paper and written Valentines became popular at the end of the 15th Century. The oldest Valentine that exists today was made during this era and is on display in the British Museum.


In early years Valentine cards were handmade. Rebus Valentines had verses in which tiny pictures took the place of some of the words. Fraktur Valentines had ornamental lettering in the style of illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages. Cutout Valentines were made by folding a piece of paper several times and cutting out a lacey pattern with small, pointed scissors. A Puzzle Purse Valentine was a folded puzzle, which was read and refolded. Among the numerous folds were written lines and verses that had to be read in a certain order to be understood. Using a stencil cut from oilpaper and painting through the stencil made Theoren Valentines. These Valentines originated in the Orient. Pinprick Valentines were made to look like lace by pricking tiny holes in paper with a needle or pin. I well remember receiving one of these from my grandmother many years ago.

They did away with it as in changed it to something else no representing a "pagan worship service"?

Not being a smart aleck, just questioning something here.

[Arphaxad]

Originally Posted by Scott Hutchinson

How's this for controversy,should Apostolic churches have Easter Egg hunts?

26 hrs and 295 posts, great is the controversy




ARPH

[SDG]

Tomorrow, THOR'S DAY, we honor one of my favorite pagan gods ...THOR.




Thursday: The name Thursday comes from the Old English Þunresdæg, meaning the day of Þunor, commonly known in Modern English as Thor, the Germanic and Norse god of thunder. It is based on the Latin dies Iovis, "Day of Jupiter"; compare French jeudi and Spanish jueves. In the Roman pantheon, Jupiter was the chief god, who seized and maintained his power on the basis of his thunderbolt (fulmen).

[LadyCoonskinner]

Originally Posted by rrford

Oh, you mean you won't fix breakfast?











Just like last time.

I believe I was WORKING at the time, evidentally something you know very little about!!!

*****LCS giving herself a highfive *****

[Arphaxad]

Originally Posted by Daniel Alicea

Tomorrow, THOR'S DAY, we honor one of my favorite pagan gods ...THOR.




Thursday: The name Thursday comes from the Old English Þunresdæg, meaning the day of Þunor, commonly known in Modern English as Thor, the Germanic and Norse god of thunder. It is based on the Latin dies Iovis, "Day of Jupiter"; compare French jeudi and Spanish jueves. In the Roman pantheon, Jupiter was the chief god, who seized and maintained his power on the basis of his thunderbolt (fulmen).

aahh, he's nothing without the mallet. Galactus, that's one mean dude.




ARPH

[berkeley]

Originally Posted by Arphaxad

aahh, he's nothing without the mallet. Galactus, that's one mean dude.




ARPH

ARPH,

How's it goin 22 miles north of where I'm located?