Category Archives: Easter

Easter Feasting!

Posted on April 20, 2022 by marklangley
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Resurrexit! Easter Brunch 2022

Posted on April 17, 2022 by marklangley
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Resurrexit! Easter Brunch 2021!

Posted on April 4, 2021 by marklangley

My chair (the one that I grew up seeing my wife’s father sitting in at every major celebration!) looks ready to celebrate Easter brunch., even if the table is not. But it knows the virtue of patience and is confident … Continue reading →

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Easter 2020!

Posted on April 13, 2020 by marklangley

Ahh, the joy of waking up on Easter Sunday morning and discovering the table magically adorned with flowers and gifts! We will let the pictures do the talking, from early morning to brunch to dinner.  Ordinarily, someone paints the Easter … Continue reading →

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Feasting on Holy Thursday!

Posted on April 9, 2020 by marklangley

We always have a big feast on Holy Thursday. I suppose this is one of the clever tactics that my family has developed over the years in order to cope with–  and build up resources for the imminent fasting on … Continue reading →

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Today, Sing “Ubi Caritas!”

Posted on April 9, 2020 by marklangley

Today, Holy Thursday, is the day for singing the ancient chant Ubi Caritas! UBI caritas et amor, Deus ibi est. Congregavit nos in unum Christi amor. Exultemus, et in ipso iucundemur. Timeamus, et amemus Deum vivum. Et ex corde diligamus nos … Continue reading →

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Easter 2019! Boeuf en Croute Alleluia!

Posted on April 22, 2019 by marklangley

Easter came a little later this year, but as a good friend likes to remind me, God is seldom early but He is never late! I am not sure how true this is, but it does seem to describe pretty well … Continue reading →

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Ever Ancient Ever New: Feasting at Easter!

Posted on April 2, 2018 by marklangley

Happy Easter! Now some of you might be thinking, “hmmm….this photo looks suspiciously familiar.” Or “Haven’t I seen this before?” Well, my response is “yes and no!” Although these photos are all brand new, they are, nonetheless, the same in … Continue reading →

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Pagan Greeks Saw Easter Coming 500 Years Before It Happened!

Posted on April 22, 2017 by marklangley

Sorrow! Sorrow! Very few days pass but that we don’t hear of some new sorrow. A job is lost, a troubled marriage…a near relation passes away, serious illness falls, dashing promises and hopes…a calamity strikes affecting the national interest…a friend loses his … Continue reading →

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Feasting and Easter

Posted on April 18, 2017 by marklangley

Resurrexit! There is nothing like the feeling attendant on the one who, although perhaps he has not scrupulously fulfilled every detail of his Lenten promises, approaches the Easter Morning brunch table and finds this… and this! and Egg Strada! And of … Continue reading →

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