Category: Easter

Only God could have created
all the loveliness of spring.
Made the bough to bud and blossom.
Taught the robin how to sing.
Only God could have remembered,
Through the winter, cold and gray,
How to renew the earth with beauty
And give us this Easter Day.

In comparison to a large bearded man who has spent a large part of the past few hundred years putting his elves to use in the North Pole to mine coal — all under the sole purpose to punish disobedient children — you would think that a big fluffy bunny …
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Easter Special Moments: Eggsciting Easter Ideas

Ukrainian troops in Eastern Ukraine slice into traditional Easter cake to celebrate the Eastern Orthodox holiday on the battlefield, despite a shaky ceasefire. Gavino Garay reports. For these Ukrainian soldiers in the country’s east — it’s Easter in the …
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Easter Special Moments: Eggsciting Easter Ideas

Orthodox Christians with candles and cell phones in hand crowded into Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre on the Saturday before Orthodox Easter Sunday, which this year is celebrated one week after Christianity in the West. The devout waited for …
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Easter Special Moments: Eggsciting Easter Ideas

Orthodox Christians hold Easter Procession through the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, believed to be the place of Jesus Christ’s crucifixion and burial. Rough Cut (no reporter narration). ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION) STORY: Hundreds of Orthodox …
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Easter Special Moments: Eggsciting Easter Ideas

Imagine if once a year your grandmother made a chocolate cake. Not a chocolate cake, that chocolate cake. Blow-your-mind chocolate cake. But she won’t ever let you have any – you can only have the spatula and whatever’s left over in the mixing bowl.
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Easter Special Moments: Eggsciting Easter Ideas

Call her the First Lady of Dance. If Jackie Kennedy was known for her iconic Camelot style, Betty Ford for raising awareness about addiction, and Laura Bush for promoting libraries and literacy, Michelle Obama may be remembered as the coolest First Lady …
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Easter Special Moments: Eggsciting Easter Ideas

Like most family holidays, Easter has the potential to go downhill quicker than you can say “Easter bunny.” Whether it’s caused by a failed recipe, a post-egg-hunt sugar crash, or simply an unexpected turn of events that may end up for the better, Easter …
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Easter Special Moments: Eggsciting Easter Ideas

Sure, Easter marks the most important moment in Christian history, but its message of renewal, of hope, of celebration of redemption can be universal—even for non-believers. Today, Christians all around the world are celebrating Easter. Future diabetic …
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Easter Special Moments: Eggsciting Easter Ideas

1149 Division St., East Greenwich 02818, 884-1149. More info… Seasonal offerings and specials created specifically for this Spring holiday at 22 Bowen’s Wine Bar & Grille include a traditional rack of lamb and light pan-seared halibut. Prices vary …
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Easter Special Moments: Eggsciting Easter Ideas