I remember it being pretty much like any other Sunday, unless of course it was GC weekend.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/postsofgreatprice/2018/03/why-dont-mormons-use-cross-symbol-faith/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Mormon&utm_content=48

Easter was for candy. That was my my Mormon experience.

As soon as I opened the citation, I gagged. Christ did NOT bleed in Gethsemane. The verse in the KJV was an addition in a period well after the original gospels! JS added even more" "every pore"! JS didn't even have the brains to note that the two verses were not in the original gospel. Like the rest of the JS translation it was bogus in the extreme.

BTW, the idea that use of the cross was wrong long pre-dated JS. Other groups such as the Pilgrims eschewed it. The idea was not that it did not represent the sacrifice of Christ but that it led to relics which were worshiped including statues such as the colossal Mormon one of Christ in Salt Lake. One should also note that the Protestant use of the cross is the vacant cross representing the resurrection which is, of course, what Easter celebrates.

The lesson was he suffered more in Gethsemane than on the cross. That he "bled from every pore" in Gethsemane. There is an actual physical scientific name for that btw. Hematidrosis is the medical name for that condition.

Causes. Hematidrosis is a condition in which capillary blood vessels that feed the sweat glands rupture, causing them to exude blood, occurring under conditions of extreme physical or emotional stress. ... It has been suggested that acute fear and extreme stress can cause hematidrosis.
Hematidrosis - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hematidrosis

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If they did, it was probably at another church.

No, not really. We held discussions of this in Sunday School, seminary, and later in institute classes during my undergrad years.

I don't know that it's church doctrine per se. It was views held by local laypeople in teaching positions from back when.

It actually does make sense that Jesus suffered more in agony while praying in Gethsemane ie, that God would deliver him from the deterministic fate he lived to die for.

He released any control he had over will to be subject to the will of the father. It wasn't his desire to die as a martyr. Luke 22:44 it says, "And being in anguish, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground." It's very possible he was in more agony in Gethsemane than on the cross.



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The best we got was some Easter music and a lily at the podium.There were years when Easter was barely mentioned. It is suppoaed to be the holiest day on the Christian calendar and its celebration in the Mormon church depends on the whim of a bishop.

rhgc Wrote:
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> As soon as I opened the citation, I gagged. Christ
> did NOT bleed in Gethsemane. The verse in the KJV
> was an addition in a period well after the
> original gospels! JS added even more" "every
> pore"! JS didn't even have the brains to note that
> the two verses were not in the original gospel.
> Like the rest of the JS translation it was bogus
> in the extreme.
>
> BTW, the idea that use of the cross was wrong long
> pre-dated JS. Other groups such as the Pilgrims
> eschewed it. The idea was not that it did not
> represent the sacrifice of Christ but that it led
> to relics which were worshiped including statues
> such as the colossal Mormon one of Christ in Salt
> Lake. One should also note that the Protestant use
> of the cross is the vacant cross representing the
> resurrection which is, of course, what Easter
> celebrates.


IF Christ suffered more in gethsemane, why don't they observe Maundy Thursday?

Good point

The last Easter I attended in a Mormon church we had a special combined lesson on the dangers of the internet and pornography. Is that what they mean by a special service?

This year, Mormon churches will be empty on Easter. It's General Conference.

Yes - on empty [lds] churches on APRIL FOOLS Day; Easter Sunday/ EVERY day.

Easter - in mormonite cultUre - means, just another Sunday!

Not pre-planned
Just superimposed

M@t

I seem to remember a "special Easter Sunday service" when all of the women were given small, cheap corsages to wear...?

Oh, wait. That was mother's day.

Never mind :)

I was always a tad annoyed about how Easter and Christmas were just another Sunday in Mormonism,no feeling of joy,no happy faces,not even any talks or lessons on these 2 most important events in the Christian calendar,I now enjoy these special days,with uplifting songs and talks and Children singing,happy faces,a much better spirit than was ever in the mormon church.

Oh please, this year GC is during Easter. Christ will be probably mentioned once or twice. It'll all be about "loving the right way" and more church business

Sometimes wards used have fresh cut Easter Lilies unless the bishop became paranoid that the DONATED flowers were secretly cutting into his ward budget.

For Easter services as a child growing up LDS we often had a special choir service - and the Sacrament and Sunday School were at times rolled into one meeting so the family had more time at home, and for a longer worship service (similar to a mass.)

Handel's Messiah was one popular choice for the ward choir director/s to use at Easter time. Then we'd have to sit through a very long service dreaming of all our candy and colored eggs waiting for us back home, and the rest of the day to look forward to after we left church.

The cross

The cross goes back in history some 445,000 years It is the sign of the crossing of the planet Niburu as it crosses the paths of the other planets

RE: Lost Book of Enki from Sumerian cuneiform tablets.



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As I remember it, Easter Sunday was spent worshiping J.S., as it was his birthday.

The only thing special is

It falls on April FOOL'S Day

It's still a sacred secret seminary separation celibate celebration OF fools. No matter when church falls. The subject is always the same: NOT Easter-JESUS.

M@t

My son attended an Easter LDS service to please the uber TBM parents of a girl he was dating.

The sacrament talks were about temples. The Sunday school lesson was about the resurrections in the BoM. The clear message was that Jesus but was nothing special.