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20 — The Beacon also at www.readthebeacon.com March 22, 2013 This pooch has a nose for Easter eggs. Maybe his young master taught him how to sniff them out so he could beat the other hunters to the quarrry. • LILIES • CENTERPIECES • SILK ARRANGEMENTS Easter is Sunday, March 31 Florist www.flowerswishingwell.com COMMUNITY CHURCH OF FONTANA United Church of Christ 275 Kinzie Avenue Fontana, Wisconsin 53125 (262) 275-2808 invites you to join us Palm Sunday ~ March 24, 10 am Maundy Thursday ~ March 28, 7 pm Good Friday ~ March 29 7 pm service at Williams Bay UCC Easter ~ March 31 6:30 am Sunrise Easter Service in Reid Park 10 am Easter Resurrection Service All Are Welcome - Handicapped Accessible www.com m unitychurchoffontana.com WE DELIVER DAILY TO ELKHORN, DELAVAN, LAKE GENEVA & LAKELAND MEDICAL CENTER 26 S. Wisconsin St. Elkhorn, WI (262) 723-6677 Holy Communion Episcopal Church invites you to join us EASTER SUNDAY, MARCH 31 at 10:00 a.m. The service is followed by an Easter Egg Hunt for kids. We are Accepting All People, Sharing God s Love, Teaching God s Ways. Come and See! Everyone is Welcome Here. 320 BROAD STREET, LAKE GENEVA • (262) 248-3522 BREAKFAST Baked Blueberry French Toast Fajita Skillets Chicken, Steak or Combo Avocado Omelette $ 4.00 Bloody Marys LUNCH Baked Ham with Sweet Potatoes Baked Chicken with Mashed Potatoes includes Soup or Salad, Bread, Rolls & Dessert PLUS REGULAR MENU Catering for any Occasion Available RESERVATIONS SUGGESTED 1 N. Lincoln Street Elkhorn, WI 262-723-1599
The Beacon also at www.readthebeacon.com March 22, 2013 — 21 These two sisters gearing up for Easter must live somewhere down south. This year’s early Easter may mean snow bunnies are still in fashion here. It’s Like Going Back Home COME AND WORSHIP at the small church with the big heart Saturday 4:30 p.m. Nontraditional Sunday 9:00 a.m. Informal For information, call our Lay Leader Joe Reynders at 763-9455 SPRING PRAIRIE METHODIST CHURCH 1/4 mile east of Hwy. 120 on Hwy. 11 in Spring Prairie The confusion of Easter Easter may be the most confusing holiday of the year. Ask anyone when Easter is next year and the odds are 10 to 1 he or she won’t know. If you had asked them the same question about this year’s date for Easter earlier in the year, you would have elicited the same response. The dates, by the way, are: 2013, March 31; 2014, April 20; 2015, April 5. The reason for the confusion is that Easter and the holidays that are related to it are moveable feasts, in that they don’t fall on a fixed date in the Gregorian or Julian calendars (both of which follow the cycle of the sun and the seasons). Instead, the date for Easter is determined on a lunisolar calendar similar to the Hebrew calendar. Get it? The early church fathers wished to keep the observance of Easter in correlation to the Jewish Passover. Because the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ happened after the Passover, they wanted Easter to always be celebrated subsequent to the Passover. And, since the Jewish holiday calendar is based on solar and lunar cycles, each feast day is movable, with dates shifting from year to year. . The First Council of Nicaea (325 AD) established the date of Easter as the first Sunday after the full moon (the Paschal Full Moon) following the March equinox. Ecclesiastically, the equinox is reckoned to be on March 21 (even though the equinox occurs, astronomically speaking, on March 20 in most years), and the “Full Moon” is not necessarily the astronomically correct date. In Western Christianity, using the Gregorian calendar, Easter always falls on a Sunday between March 22 and April 25, inclusively. The following day, Easter Monday, is a legal holiday in many countries with predominantly Christian traditions. Eastern Orthodox Christians compute the date differently, as do other organizations. Attempts to reconcile the dates between all of these factions have met with little success and there is little probability that it will happen in the future. Many Americans follow the tradition of coloring hard-boiled eggs and giving baskets of candy. The Easter Bunny is a popular legendary anthropomorphic Easter gift-giving character analogous to Santa Claus in American culture. On Easter Monday, the President of the United States holds an annual Easter egg roll on the White House lawn for young Ye Olde Hotel IN 44 TH YEAR (262) 763-2701 children. New York City holds an annual Easter parade on Easter Sunday. In some countries where Christianity is a state religion, or where the country has large Christian population, Easter is a public holiday. Some European and other countries in the world also have Easter Monday as a public holiday. In Canada, both Easter Sunday and Easter Monday are public holidays. In the province of Quebec, either Good Friday or Easter Monday (although most companies give both) are statutory holidays. Two days before Easter Sunday, on Good Friday, is a public holiday as well. In Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, both Easter Sunday and Easter Monday are public holidays. It is a holiday for most workers except some shopping malls that stay open for half day. Many businesses give their employees almost a week off, which is called Easter break. In the United States, Easter Sunday is a flag day but because Easter falls on a Sunday, which is already a non working day for federal and state employees, it has not been designated as a federal or state holiday. Few banks that are normally open on regular Sundays (have you ever seen one of those?) are closed on Easter. Some retail stores, shopping malls, and restaurants are closed on Easter Sunday, although this practice is declining. Good Friday, which occurs two days before Easter Sunday, is a holiday in 12 states. Even in states where Good Friday is not a holiday, many financial institutions, stock markets, and public schools are closed. Historically, schools have given extended spring breaks of one to two weeks around the Easter holiday, but this practice has been declining in favor of fixed one-week recesses around Washington’s Birthday and in late April. So why do we have the Easter Bunny as a symbol of Easter? And why, since rabbits are mammals and don’t lay eggs, does the bunny traditionally bring eggs – colored, no less – on Easter. It turns out that the egg-toting Easter bunny evolved from a mythic German goddess named Ostara, (Oestre / Eastre) who was the Germanic Goddess of Springtime. Eggs, like rabbits and hares, are fertility symbols of antiquity. Since birds lay eggs and rabbits give birth to large litters in the early spring, these became symbols of the rising fertility of the earth at the March Equinox. A THING IS RIGHT WHEN IT TENDS TO PRESERVE THE INTREGITY, STABILITY AND BEAUTY OF THE BIOTIC COMMUNITY. IT IS WRONG WHEN IT TENDS OTHERWISE. Aldo Leopold (1887-1948) GOOD EARTH CHURCH OF THE DIVINE (UCC) Services at Michael Fields Agricultural Institute, Sundays at 10:00 a.m., W2493 Cty. Road ES, East Troy WI Are you alive at the crossroads of words about God and works for the Earth? CALL (262) 348-0764 • www.goodearthchurchofthedivine.org LYONS Hwy. 36-Halfway between Lake Geneva & Burlington from Hwy. 50 turn on South Road, 3 miles CLOSED MONDAY & TUESDAY Open Wednesday through Sunday 4:30 p.m. DAILY SPECIALS.................... $ 10.00 FRIDAY FISH FRY................... $ 10.95 SURF ‘N TURF........................ $ 34.95 WEDNESDAY Lasagna or 1/2 Chicken $ 9.95 THURSDAY New York or Ribeye $ 12.95 Filet $ 14.95 SATURDAY Prime Rib $ 18.95 & $ 22.95 OPEN EASTER SERVING at 11:30 A.M. Ham Dinner $ 12.95 Prime Rib $ 18.95 • Leg of Lamb $ 14.95 PLUS REGULAR MENU Children under 12: $ 5.95
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