Why don't Mormon's celebrate Easter? [Asked by a Mormon]

Pacumenispages.yuku.com ^ | April 20, 2002 | Abutleraz

[Colofornian]

The Christian World just recently celebrated Easter. But as a general rule, it seems to me that Easter Sunday is NOT properly observed -at least in the ward's I have belonged to.

I remember vividly an Easter Sunday (15 years ago) wherein the sacrament meeting was a missionary farewell--no particular emphasis on Easter, Christ's Atonement of Resurrection.

I went to Sunday School--the instructor simply taught the next lesson in the manual--no emphasis whatsoever on Easter related topics.

I went to Priesthood Meeting--same story in my Elder's Quorum. Finally, after going from classroom to classroom I discovered that the Priest's quorum of having a lesson on Easter.

This last Easter, the sacrament meeting program was very much Easter centered with the choir singing an Easter Cantata (by Gerald Lund and His wife--very nice!). However, the congregational hymns (3) WERE NOT from the Easter hymns in the hymn book.

The Sunday School class I attended had an Easter Centered Lesson, but that is only because I taught it! (Gospel Essentials).

What is the deal? It seems to me that this is the one Sunday on which we could deviate from the lesson manual just enough to focus on the central doctrine of our Church and Christianity!

I recently voiced this opinion in Correlation Meeting and received a lecture from our Relief Society President that it would be completely inappropriate to deviate from the lesson schedule!

What has been your experience?

Is there some church policy that I am not aware of that prohibits us from having a special lesson on Easter?

Are Church instructors so mindless that they can't do anything but blindly follow the manual?

HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

God bless you and Happy Easter.

[reaganaut]

We do not wear Crosses because to do so would be to celebrate the murder weapon that killed Jesus.

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You have no clue at how insulting that statment is, not just to Christians but to Christ.

The Cross is the CENTER of Christianity because it is where Christ paid for our sins by shedding his blood, not the garden. Jesus never said ‘take up your garden and follow me’. Everything before, during and after Christ’s earthly mission points to the Cross.

Do I celebrate the Cross? Only in that I celebrate that it is how God died to pay for my sins, I rejoice that Jesus loved me enough to suffer on the cross so I can be reconciled to him, by faith not works.

I will give you props for being honest about Mormon teaching rather than downplaying it or lying like some other LDS I know.

Here are the lyrics to a Christian hymn that shows how Christians celebrate the cross. To not do so, is to dismiss the wonder and love of Christ in dying for us.

When I survey the wondrous cross
On which the Prince of glory died,
My richest gain I count but loss,
And pour contempt on all my pride.

Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast,
Save in the death of Christ my God!
All the vain things that charm me most,
I sacrifice them to His blood.

See from His head, His hands, His feet,
Sorrow and love flow mingled down!
Did e’er such love and sorrow meet,
Or thorns compose so rich a crown?

His dying crimson, like a robe,
Spreads o’er His body on the tree;
Then I am dead to all the globe,
And all the globe is dead to me.

Were the whole realm of nature mine,
That were a present far too small;
Love so amazing, so divine,
Demands my soul, my life, my all.

[reaganaut]

You could not pay me to step inside a Mormon ward ever again.

And the article is correct, in all the years I was LDS, Easter was just another Sunday regardless of the ward I lived in.

[reaganaut]

If Mormons believe Jesus “paid the price” in the garden, then Mormons believe... Jesus “paid the price.”

That’s Christianity.

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Um...no. And they believe it was only a loan, that we have to pay back, not paid the price in our place. I can give you LDS sources that state that.

Before you rebuke my sister in Christ, study Mormonism in depth. Mormons are not and will never be Christians. If a Mormon accepts Christ, they leave like I did.

[reaganaut]

unlike yourself that believe that Christ ditched his ressurected body once he left the earth to join the heavenly mist with a three-way personality disorder (funny that that’s not taught in the bible).

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Wow. With stupid comments like that no wonder you are still Mormon.

No Christian believes that and of course the Bible doesn’t teach that because it isn’t what the Trinity (or Christian teaching throughout the ages) has EVER taught.

However, thank you for pointing out that Mormons really don’t get Christianity or Easter, you are helping our side greatly.