Attending Easter services or not?

[Liberal_in_LA]

Poll question: Attending Easter services or not?

There is no "other"...it's yes or no.

[47of74]

1. Yes

Yes I'll be going this year. I'm going Saturday evening and while I'm looking forward to Easter finally being here it's a long, long Mass to sit through - on the order of two or three hours at the least.

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. To me the real measure of 'religiosity' is church/temple'etc attendance.

people claim religions but sleep late,just like us non-religious folks.

[Pirate Smile]

5. I occasionally threaten my kids with attending the Easter vigil and that generally strikes enough

fear in their hearts to get them to shape up. We went to it two or three years ago. It is one of those family war stories that pop up every so often.

[MrSlayer]

3. No.

I see no point in it.

[emilyg]

4. Yes.

[countmyvote4real]

6. I don't do that anymore. Not even the baskets.

But I might have some ham.

[susanna]

7. Self delete.

n/t

[roody]

8. atheist here

[SPedigrees]

9. Not.

But then I can count the times I've set foot in church(es) in my nearly 60 yr lifetime on my fingers with fingers to spare. For funerals and other people's weddings (I got married by a JP.)

[knitter4democracy]

10. Our Holy Week starts tomorrow. I'm planning on attending most services.

I'm in the choir, so I pretty much have to be there, but I also want my kids to know the beauty and mystery of Pascha. This Sunday's Palm Sunday with the procession of palms and pussy willows (Russian tradition), next Wednesday's the healing service on Holy Wednesday, next Friday's Holy Friday (and I'd better get the epitaphion cloths ironed today to get to church tomorrow, or the altar servers will be really upset!) with a procession around the church with the epitaphion, and then Holy Saturday starts the Easter vigil and is the highlight of the Orthodox year. I've almost got my church basket stuff set; I just need to get sausage and bacon and have the kids dye the eggs.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

11. It's the most important festival of the church year, and yes, I'll be there

(aside from the fact that my choir director would kill anyone who failed to show up without signing out ahead of time). :-)

Our anthems will be "Hail Gladdening Light," by Wood and "Christus Vincit," by MacMillan (a young, contemporary Scottish composer). Both anthems are for double choir.