Easter Sunday

[velvetpage]

My church doesn't usually do this, but I love the ritual of it, so the rules are the same as those in church: if you know the response and believe it, you give me the reply (in comments) and pass the message on in your own journal. Please do not participate if you do not believe it to be true.

Christ is risen!

Comments

[kibbles.livejournal.com]

I guess a lot of us have churches that don't do it? I came to check to see what it was -- I'm sure I'd be fine with the answer if I knew what it was! :)

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

I'm having trouble believing that none of the Christians on my friends list do this! It's a standard greeting for Easter in almost every church I've been in, and I heard a few people doing it today even though it wasn't suggested.

The greeting is: Christ is risen!
The reply: He is risen indeed!

[kibbles.livejournal.com]

The only thing close in the Catholic Church is the Mystery of Faith:

Christ has died, Christ has risen, Christ will come again.

(Or 3 alternates: B - Dying you destroyed our death, rising you restored our life. Lord Jesus, come in glory.
or C - When we eat this bread and drink this cup, we proclaim your death, Lord Jesus, until you come in glory.
or D - Lord, by your cross and resurrection, you have set us free. You are the Savior of the World.)

And sometimes it is said, sometimes it is sung.

But I didnt think that is what you were looking for.

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

I believe this is primarily Anglican/Episcopalian in nature, though I've heard it in Baptist, United, and Salvationist churches as well. My aunt, an Anglican, usually greets her Easter guests with it when they come for dinner, and my father-in-law used it this morning in response to something from the pulpit. I thought it was more widespread than it appears to be. *shrug* That was somewhat disappointing, actually.

[kibbles.livejournal.com]

Ah, well we all know Catholics are their own special brand of ritual, and well, Quakers, we don't say anything! (And actually when someone does say something in an unprogrammed meeting, it is not common/acceptable to 'answer' what someone says. From what I understand.)

And yeah more about the Catholic, even your ethnic background matters a little bit. The Italian Catholics have their own special things that the Irish don't hold as dear (i.e. Christmas Eve being a bigger deal than Christmas), and the Puerto Rican Catholics I know have different traditions as well. All Roman Catholic but all with different traditions.

I find it all fun and facinating, the ways people worship.

[kibbles.livejournal.com]

Hey at least they got it right on the Ironworkers message board. :)

[kesmun.livejournal.com]

Alleluia, Christ is risen.
The Lord is risen indeed, alleluia.

An Anglican tradition (it's probably more widespread than that) is that starting with Ash Wednesday and throughout Lent, the "alleluias" are left out of the service. There are a couple of places that we say it, mainly at the fraction anthem ("Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us, therefore let us keep the feast." with an alleluia at the beginning and the end) and the dismissal ("Let us go forth in the name of the Lord." "Thanks be to God. Alleluia."). It's a small reminder that the joy is dampened while we look forward to the Passion.

When the Easter morning service begins with "Alleluia, Christ is risen." it's a signal of the joy that we find in the resurrection. During the season of Easter (until Whitsunday or Pentecost), we actually double the alleluia at the dismissal. It's a tiny, but neat tradition.

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

I knew there was at least one person on my friends list who would know the response! Thank you.

[kesmun.livejournal.com]

*G* I was probably the most enthusiastic "alleluia"-er at the service yesterday - and the nave was PACKED.