Happy Easter....erm?

[DracoM]

After today's [ Monday, 25th Mar] Lunchtime Concert. FT suddenly wished us all a 'Happy Easter'.

[a] Easter is not until NEXT SUNDAY
[b] THIS week - Holy Week - is one of the most solemn and penitential in the christian calendar
[c] Easter is the new Christmas suddenly, is it? Since when?

On how many other accounts was it an inappropriate CA throwaway?

[jean]

I thought I heard her say 'Happy Easter when it comes'.

[teamsaint]

After today's [ Monday, 25th Mar] Lunchtime Concert. FT suddenly wished us all a 'Happy Easter'.

[a] Easter is not until NEXT SUNDAY
[b] THIS week - Holy Week - is one of the most solemn and penitential in the christian calendar
[c] Easter is the new Christmas suddenly, is it? Since when?

On how many other accounts was it an inappropriate CA throwaway?

Ill thought out, at best.
and the Mendelssohn was incorrectly described too, though no doubt a slip of the tongue.
I'm afraid the whole presentation of a good and interesting concert* (at least as it sounded on the dreaded car radio) was rather "New " radio 3........

* except for the Brahms.... which really do need a rest even in this form

[teamsaint]

I thought I heard her say 'Happy Easter when it comes'.

But what is the point? as DracoM points out, the significance for those who are interested in religious observance is, at present, in Holy Week. Easter greetings are surely for Easter?

Plus its the middle of winter.

[kernelbogey]

I heard a woman passenger, getting off the bus on 31 October last, wish the driver a 'Happy Hallowe'en'!

Perhaps she thought a ghost-free sleep.... or perhaps she wasn't thinking.

[jean]

More confusion:

Music and readings for Easter from the chapel of King's College, Cambridge.

The world-famous choir, directed by Stephen Cleobury, sing choral music for Passiontide including Allegri's Miserere and Mozart's Ave Verum Corpus. The story of Jesus's death and resurrection is told in the well-loved words of the King James' bible and reflected on in poems by GK Chesterton and John Updike, all in the glorious setting of King's College Chapel.

[Roehre]

.....
[c] Easter is the new Christmas suddenly, is it? Since when?

You're right, you don't wish someone Happy Easter before Easter Sunday.

Looking at your comment I assume you know of the relative importances of Christmas and Easter within the Christian calendar. It is Easter, not cuddly Christmas which is by far the most important of these two. We could do without Christmas, but Easter is essential to Christian beliefs.
I would encourage the celebration of Easter, following the Holy with Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday and the Easter. But in this so-called Christian country the BBC television doesn't realise this importance: apart from a documentary re Mary Magdalene no attention has been paid to any of these days as far as I can see. R3 is a bit of a different story, but there not the attention which these days deserve either , though JSBach's St.Mark's Passion was more or less programmed for the right day at least .

[Stephen Whitaker]

Christians and non-Christians alike celebrate Easter in decidedly non-Christian ways: with Easter eggs, Easter egg hunts, the Easter bunny, and so forth.

Most cultural references to Easter include these elements, most of which are pagan in origin (as is the very name Easter)
and all of which have become commercialized.

Because these aspects of Easter are shared by both Christians and non-Christians, they constitute the common cultural recognition of Easter —
the specifically religious celebrations of Christians belong to them alone and are not part of the wider culture. Britain is indeed only a so-called Christian country.

The shift of Easter's religious elements away from the general culture (eg broadcasting) and into Christian churches has been occurring over many decades .
To expect secular members of society to be able to distinguish between Holy Week and Easter Week
is a futile exercise which will only diminish that very respect which Christians would wish their faith to be accorded.

[Flosshilde]

More confusion:

Music and readings for Easter from the chapel of King's College, Cambridge.

The world-famous choir, directed by Stephen Cleobury, sing choral music for Passiontide including Allegri's Miserere and Mozart's Ave Verum Corpus. The story of Jesus's death and resurrection is told in the well-loved words of the King James' bible and reflected on in poems by GK Chesterton and John Updike, all in the glorious setting of King's College Chapel.

I've been puzzled by this - where or what exactly is the confusion?

[jean]

It wasn't, as it claimed, Music and readings for Easter (see OP) - only the last part of it was.

[BBMmk2]

Wekk, its Easter Sunday!! So Happy Easter

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Wekk, its Easter Sunday!! So Happy Easter

And to you, too, Bbm - and all fellow Forumistas!

[Hornspieler]

Christians and non-Christians alike celebrate Easter in decidedly non-Christian ways: with Easter eggs, Easter egg hunts, the Easter bunny, and so forth.

Most cultural references to Easter include these elements, most of which are pagan in origin (as is the very name Easter)
and all of which have become commercialized.

Because these aspects of Easter are shared by both Christians and non-Christians, they constitute the common cultural recognition of Easter —
the specifically religious celebrations of Christians belong to them alone and are not part of the wider culture. Britain is indeed only a so-called Christian country.

The shift of Easter's religious elements away from the general culture (eg broadcasting) and into Christian churches has been occurring over many decades .
To expect secular members of society to be able to distinguish between Holy Week and Easter Week
is a futile exercise which will only diminish that very respect which Christians would wish their faith to be accorded.

Well spoken, Stephen! Some common sense at last on this thread.

HS

[Serial_Apologist]

Wekk

Is that what posh Scousers get when the ask "gissa job"?

[BBMmk2]

Is that what posh Scousers get when the ask "gissa job"?