First up, quite interesting (to me) was that I was woken in the middle of the night … here is my timestamp on the ipad:
Second was the timetable concluding the commemoration … West last week and East this week. The Eastern heavily involves the Saturday and the harrowing of hades as they put it … Kassandra Troy sent this last evening, my time:
https://amid5ttheruin5.blogspot.com/2026/04/holy-saturday-2026-live-from-jerusalem.html
Third follows that immediately, the realisation that in order to continually teach, one must also commit to continually studying and learning. I am in a position where friends in America are doing that in the “protestant” or biblical manner, meaning both Testaments, Old and New, not one without the other. This is no zero sum.
Fourth thought to enter the head was to retrieve this quote from Agatha Christie’s Harley Quinn who, in one short story, has a little ole man, Mr. Satterthwaite, stumble upon a woman about to leap from a coastal cliff where her now empty house is … setting is Italian coastline, maybe Capri, maybe not. He addresses her about it:
Vigorously underscoring that point were various vid-memes last evening on X, where in one of them, a man walking along a street beside a housing block suddenly changed position, looked up and caught a baby which had fallen from a high balcony. In another, a girl was about to plunge from a bridge, passers-by immediately dragged her back from the brink.
Fifth thought for me was, at 0355 BST, to go back and re-read the link just posted, from Kass’s blog.
From that re-reading, it was clear that the Western church (small c) concentrates on the first day, the crucifixion, then easter day, whereas the Eastern places great significance on what Jesus was actually doing on the second day … West and East, combined, make that a Friday, Saturday, Sunday thing and that’s complicated by the one week separation between commemorations.
Last evening, in eastern Europe, the Orthodox mounted a vigil in Khrams across the lands, awaiting the completion of the job He had to do in another place, then His reappearance to humankind … one specifically mentioned is Mary Magdalene and other women.
This is the third day commemoration of Resurrection. In southern USA, it is called by many Resurrection Day. For me, personally, it began on Palm Sunday in the West and ends right now, at 0405 this Sunday the 12th, with DAD having just posted at NOWP from France and I about to zonk or crash for my second sleep, starting the Sunday blogging around 0730 to 0800 (current cunning plan). I’ll have a Pascha luncheon later, as I used to in Russia, aroubd 1100.
No more nor less than that, let’s keep it simple.
Oh, one last thought … if we’re looking at key dates, try the 1054 Schism, the 1182 Massacre of the Latins, and the 1204 sacking of Constantinople, led by the Merovingian mesmerised Franks. /END.
