Originally posted by Miles Coverdale
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The Office of Tenebrae for Holy Week 28th March 2018
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Wow. Thrilling, passionate singing, plus suberb unobtrusive engineering. A fitting offering for the season plus last Sunday’s Holy Week programming. Radio 3 has come up with the goods this week and can (almost) be forgiven the repeats. How does Radio Times on its cover mark the central festival of the Christian year? With a bunny! Despair.
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Originally posted by jonfan View PostHow does Radio Times on its cover mark the central festival of the Christian year? With a bunny! Despair.My boxes are positively disintegrating under the sheer weight of ticks. Ed Reardon
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Originally posted by Miles Coverdale View PostI'm not quite sure why the Radio Times, which is a television and radio listings magazine, should feel the need to mark religious festivals of any kind, Christian or otherwise.
What percentage of the UK population are truly church-going believing Christians? And I don't mean to include those who idly put 'C of E' on forms because it's what you do.
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Originally posted by Miles Coverdale View PostI'm not quite sure why the Radio Times, which is a television and radio listings magazine, should feel the need to mark religious festivals of any kind, Christian or otherwise.
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Originally posted by jonfan View Post. .after all Easter is what the holiday is called so perhaps occasionally recognise that fact rather a rabbit holding some eggs, which is a bit weird.
'In Northern Europe, Easter imagery often involves hares and rabbits. Citing folk Easter customs in Leicestershire, England where "the profits of the land called Harecrop Leys were applied to providing a meal which was thrown on the ground at the 'Hare-pie Bank'", late 19th-century scholar Charles Isaac Elton theorizes a connection between these customs and the worship of Ēostre. In his late 19th-century study of the hare in folk custom and mythology, Charles J. Billson cites numerous incidents of folk custom involving the hare around the period of Easter in Northern Europe. Billson says that "whether there was a goddess named Ēostre, or not, and whatever connection the hare may have had with the ritual of Saxon or British worship, there are good grounds for believing that the sacredness of this animal reaches back into an age still more remote, where it is probably a very important part of the great Spring Festival of the prehistoric inhabitants of this island."
Some scholars have linked customs and imagery involving hares to Ēostre and the Norse goddess Freyja. Writing in 1972, John Andrew Boyle cites commentary contained within an etymology dictionary by A. Ernout and A. Meillet, where the authors write that "Little else ... is known about [Ēostre], but it has been suggested that her lights, as goddess of the dawn, were carried by hares. And she certainly represented spring fecundity, and love and carnal pleasure that leads to fecundity." Boyle responds that nothing is known about Ēostre outside of Bede's single passage, that the authors had seemingly accepted the identification of Ēostre with the Norse goddess Freyja, yet that the hare is not associated with Freyja either. Boyle writes that "her carriage, we are told by Snorri, was drawn by a pair of cats — animals, it is true, which like hares were the familiars of witches, with whom Freyja seems to have much in common." However, Boyle adds that "on the other hand, when the authors speak of the hare as the 'companion of Aphrodite and of satyrs and cupids' and point out that 'in the Middle Ages it appears beside the figure of Luxuria', they are on much surer ground and can adduce the evidence of their illustrations." '
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Originally posted by jonfan View PostNo it doesn’t but it sort of manages it at Christmas ...
[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]
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