Obviously, various Mormon wards vary as to their recognition of resurrection Sunday. [Mormons don't set aside any special corporate emphasis on Good Friday or the week leading up to Easter]
Anyway, this observation by this person has been documented by BYU: BYU study: Disconnect between Mormons and Easter
Excerpts from this link by the Lds Church-owned newspaper: ...survey respondents ranked their families' celebration of Easter a distant third behind Christmas and Thanksgiving, with only "slightly more planning than the Fourth of July," he said. [My note: So, Easter gets "slightly more planning than the" July 4th weekend among Lds? This BYU prof says Easter should "rightfully should be the celebration of all celebrations." But, he says, it gets "usurped...overshadowed" by the Lds throwing a conference that lands on Easter 1/4th of the time. And that this is both incongrous, "awkward," and a "disconnect with the LDS observance of it." "...Look what we do to prepare for Christmas: caroling, ward parties, advent calendars that help you count down to the holiday," Wilson said. "For most Latter-day Saints, we have nothing like that for Easter..." [My note: Wilson said he thinks Latter-day Saints could overcome both the general conference timing and the holiday's moves around the calendar with wider acknowledgement of the historic events that lead to Easter Sunday's celebration of Christ's resurrection, suggesting it might help to remind members on Palm Sunday of the events that happen during holy week. "My students did a little poll this year — 350 to 400 of them — and only 2 to 3 percent of their wards even mentioned Palm Sunday. It's like we're afraid that's another Christian fabrication of mainstream Christianity and we don't want to buy into it."
Other Mormons have also acknowledged this play-down pattern of Easter: See Preparing for Easter through Holy Week
From this Eric Huntsman (Mormon author) article: While the LDS community does not formally observe Holy Week, the period from Palm Sunday to Easter morning… Suddenly I realized that my observance of Easter was rather pale by comparison… No cross on their church or temple buildings. (In fact, they replace Christ with an “angel” Moroni on their temples).
Few Mormons wear crosses, depicting their aversion to it. For more on this, see:
* No-Cross Protocol ["New" Mormon tradition]
* Sunstone speaker attempts to explain LDS 'aversion' to cross [published by Mormon church owned Mormon Times]
Of course, Mormons have services on Easter. But that’s because it’s a Sabbath like any other. Some of their facilities recognize Easter in some special way; many do not. And when they do, it’s usually because of some realization by a local leader of the “paleness” in which they have been previously focused on Christ’s death on the cross and resurrection – as this author describes during his time as an Lds bishop.
From the Eric Huntsman (Mormon author) article: Moving to Tennessee and being immersed in the Baptist Bible Belt probably helped. Perhaps that is where I picked up a bit of my “evangelical” flair. I did not always agree with my Protestant friends in details of doctrine, but I was always moved by their commitment and love of Jesus Christ. Later as I become more of a student of history, I became more “high church” in sentiment as I became attracted to the liturgical patterns of the older, more traditional Christian communities. I came to appreciate their use of the calendar, seasons, and scriptural events as teaching tools...
(Thank the Lord that His evangelical people are a light to Mormons in Tennessee! It seems when Lds move into contact with them that they indeed “appreciate their use of calendar, seasons, and scriptural events as teaching tools…”)
For other info on Lds & Easter, see also: What is the Significance of Easter for Mormons?
Simply stated, Mormons do not place a cross on their houses of worship or celebrate Easter for the same reason that Muslims do not place crosses on mosques or celebrate Easter.
This one post really puts it all in perspective concerning Mormonism.
There is no life, there is no resurrection, there is no salvation in the doctrine of Mormonism.
Then caan we say that Mitt Romney is not a Christian?
Because he doesn’t celebrate The Resurrection of the Lord?
We do not wear Crosses because to do so would be to celebrate the murder weapon that killed Jesus.
Hey, if I were a Mormon, and FINALLY noticed Easter was ‘just another Sunday,’ I think a little light would go off.
Happy Easter. :)
They do not celebrate Easter because all the Christian (ie corrupted) denominations do. Same reason they don’t like crosses.
What do you expect from a faith that denies the divinity of Christ (not eternal God the Son, triune God, always God, not a man that turned into a god).
This is the most telling, when even the so called CINO’s show up at Church once a year for Easter but the Mormons think nothing of it special at all. They are less than Pagan.
Colofornian ... my favorite oracle of anti-mormon bigotry,
Mormons Celebrate the Ressurection of the Lord Jesus Christ, but we believe in the biblical ressurection, 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).
We however, do not believe in the Easter Bunny which I believe was another Roman distortion similar to your Nicene Creed.
So here’s the real question ... If you celebrate Easter .... why don’t you celebrate Christ’s ressurection, instead of defining it by non-biblical state-priest philosophies and Creeds?
God is outside of time, maybe this message was meant for
2012.
It’s happening again. How insane!~! True Conservatives do
not want another non-Christian as President. And neither does God.
archived message #32660, Yahoo Groups - Seers 2
2007 Message to Louise Tomkiel
Message to Louise August 13, 2007
HYPERCRITICAL——
AUGUST 13, 2008- - -3:10 a.m.
L. began to receive a message from God and said, “Jesus,
please cover me with your Most Precious Blood.”
Then your God spoke, “CHILDREN, LISTEN TO ME!!!!
Select your candidate in much prayer for if you put a
certain party up for election for your next president
you will have a religious war and Martial Law. This
person claims to have faith in the ‘one true church’
which, I tell you, is a false cult founded on lies by a
very sick man.
My Church and all Christians will be sought out and
punished unto death! DO NOT CHOOSE EVIL MEN TO
RULE YOUR COUNTRY!!!
Michael and his Legions of Warrior Angels will assist
My own although many will die for your faith. Remain
faithful to the end My dear ones for Heaven eternal
awaits you.
Live in Truth. Live Love. Forgive all. Pray. I WILL give
you abundant strength. This will be the devil’s great
hour. Fear not but live on in My Great Love. My
blessings to you all! Amen.”
NOTE: Candidate’s initial - - -M.R.
[The only candidate in the last election and in this one with these initials is Mitt Romney. He is a Mormon which was recently described as a cult.]
They are NOT Christians!!!
We celebrate Easter every week as we participate in the sacrament of the Lord’s supper. Jesus taught his disciples to “Do this in remembrance of me” — every week we remember the sacrifice that Jesus made for us, and how He overcame sin and the grave, and covenant to follow Him.
I swear, Christians are our own worst enemy.
God and Christ and the Holy Ghost must shed an ocean of tears over the constant hostility between the Christian religions. What a waste of time and effort.
Worship as you believe and leave others to do the same in Christ’s name.
If I were God and had to put up with all this Christian on Christian bashing, I would be calling on a new Noah circa 2013 and start over again.
Now hear it comes.
“Yes, and the New Noah should be fundamentalist Christian.”
“No, Catholic!”
“No, Mormon!”
“No, East Orthodox!”
“No, Jews for Jesus!”
Really, this constant Christian on Christian bashing is getting old already. Christ is crying.
Mormons have sub-par Easter services [testimony from a Mormon]