The Lord is Risen! He is risen indeed Alleluia! Heres is an extra ‘fifteenth’ sonnet for Easter Morning, which I dedicate to my friend Mary who asked me to write it, and to the memory of her husband Gavin. May he rest in peace and rise in glory. Later today I will publish another Easter […]
Last week Westminster City Council were embarrassed when it was pointed out that they had a display in a ground-floor window to celebrate Ramadan, but nothing about Easter, the holiest of Christian festivals. They remedied the omission on Maundy Thursday afternoon by placing two chocolate Easter eggs and two cut-out rabbits in another window. As a result of […]
DR Andrew Kelso, the medical director at NHS Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board, has urged the public not to guzzle Easter eggs (or Gesture eggs as a retailer called Freshstore would prefer them to be known) all in one go. He advised that they should be eaten ‘in moderation’ as the NHS braces […]
I thought that Cadbury creme eggs were one of the great miracles of manufacturing. How did they manage that luscious, luxurious combination of thick chocolate egg holding the yummiest, runniest creme complete with yellow “yolk” in the center? Ambrosial. Miraculous. But then I grew up and have developed a serious addiction to their mini eggs […]
Though Handel’s “Messiah” rightly reigns supreme as the king of music for Easter, there are many other seasonal masterpieces that deserve to be heard more often. Here are ten lesser-known classical works that brilliantly depict the dramatic events of Holy Week and Easter Sunday. 1. “Resurrexit” from the Messe Solennelle, by Hector Berlioz (1824) The […]
The folks at the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) are pressuring First Lady Jill Biden to make a change in the annual White House Easter Egg Roll. PETA wants the White House to discontinue using chicken eggs. As I was reading about this, I felt some deja vu-ish vibes. Did I write […]
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