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Happy Easter Columbus

Mar. 23, 2008

Categorized in: Best Wishes!

Tagged with: easter, wishes

This is a Real Living eCard. There are no tulips in Central Ohio yet this year because Easter is soooooo early this year.

Happy Easter ... At least our snow Saturday did not stick. I went to an Easter Service that started outside the church last night with a bonfire. It was cold and windy. When we were driving home from the Easter Vigil we got on the subject of how the date for Easter is figured.

I know I have looked it up other years, but I could not remember why the wild fluctuations in the calendar year to year.

During the outside part of the service last night I kept thinking about people in Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota... those states got snow the end of this past week... lots of snow. We are lucky our big snowfall from two weeks ago is all gone.

It's math, science, history and religion, both Judaism and Christianity that determines what day Easter falls on each year... and yes this year is very, very early.

Thanks to Ann Arbor Michigan real estate blogger Karen Moorehead for the scoop.. Why is Easter early this year?

Karen wrote ( I think it is a quote...)

“This is the earliest Easter in nearly a century – the last time Easter fell this early was in 1913... The holiday (or holy day) won’t fall again on March 23 – which is the second-earliest day possible – until 2160.

Interestingly the latest it will be in our lifetimes is in 2038. That year, Easter is on the latest day possible: April 25.”

Ann Arbor has a fresh 8.5 inches of snow on the ground...

I'd love to hear from you if you have a comment on the topic of Easter or weather. All comments are moderated so you will not see your comment immediately. Thanks. Copyright 2008 Discover Columbus and Maureen McCabe

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Columbus Controversy

Feb. 23, 2008

Categorized in: Events & Places

Tagged with: 2008, columbus ohio, dublin ohio, easter, st patricks day, the shamrock club

It's Sunday... why not post about a religious controversy in Columbus?

Not all that big a controversy really... to celebrate St. Patrick's Day on St. Patrick's Day (March 17) or not this year.

CNN ... dateline Columbus Ohio (that's newspaper talk... I think... I think I remember that from journalism in high school... or maybe I remember it from some TV show, movie or book about a journalist...) I never understood it. Columbus Ohio is a place, not a date.... anyway the CNN story about the controversy in Columbus is dated February 20, 2008 (or updated February 20... ) Wednesday:

St. Patrick's Day causing Catholic dilemma

The CNN story talks about how Savannah, New York City, Philadelphia, Boston and other cities have handled St. Patricks Day falling in Holy Week (the week before Easter for Christians) this year. In Columbus Ohio it's a dilemma? I don't know that it's really a dilemma. My blog entry about the story of the Columbus Catholic Diocese / Shamrock Club controversy was:

Jan. 31, 2008 - Columbus - St. Patrick's Day Celebrations

I'm no journalist... I just quoted Meredith Heagney's story in The Columbus Dispatch... about the freaky calendar that puts St. Patrick's Day the Monday of Holy Week.

Calendar throws St. Patrick's Day for loop

How the Columbus Archdiocese has dealt with St. Patricks Day 2008:

No mass in honor of St. Patrick's Day in downtown Columbus this year.

Discouraging participation in celebrations on March 17, this year...???

They tried to get the Columbus St. Patrick's Day Parade moved up, so it would not fall in Holy Week.

How the Shamrock Club in Columbus Ohio has decided to deal with St. Patricks Day 2008:

The Columbus Ohio Parade must go on. So will the Irish Family Reunion... at Vet's Memorial.

I love the words of Mike Dempsey President of the Shamrock Club as quoted in the CNN :

"It's not a sin to celebrate your Irish culture," countered Mark Dempsey, the club's president.

"Actually, you're born Irish first," he said, "and then you're baptized Catholic."

How the Royal Hibernians in Central Ohio have decided with St. Patricks Day 2008:

They will participate in the Dublin Ohio parade on Saturday March 15, 2008 instead of the Columbus (Shamrock Club's) St. Patrick's Day Parade. They won't go to the Catholic mass in downtown Columbus because there won't be one this year...

How the average Columbus person of Irish ancestry will deal with St. Patricks Day 2008:

Either they'll go to the Columbus St. Patricks Day Parade (and the Irish Family Reunion at Vets) ...or they won't. Maybe it depends on their religion... or maybe not. Most people in Columbus won't notice a difference... between St. Patricks Day 2008 and any other years.

I think the CNN article says this won't happen again untl 2160 so maybe the Shamrock Club and the Columbus Catholic Diocese have time to work out a solution. Thanks to Sandy Mattingly in New York City (The Loft Guy) for emailing me the link to the CNN story.

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Columbus - St. Patrick's Day Celebrations

Jan. 31, 2008

Categorized in: Events & Places

Tagged with: central ohio, columbus, easter, st patricks day

It's not even February yet... why worry about St. Patrick's Day in January? "Calendar throws St. Patrick's Day for loop" by Meredith Heagney of The Columbus Dispatch... brings up nasty news for some people who celebrate everything Irish... St. Pat's Day is the Monday before Easter and the Columbus Catholic Diocese has asked Central Ohio Catholics to not celebrate. There will be no traditional mass in downtown Columbus on St. Patrick's Day.

The Columbus Bishop asked the Shamrock Club to move the local celebrations up but 'No can do', the Columbus Parade and the Irish Family Reunion at Vet's Memorial will be on Monday March 17, 2008.

The Shamrock Club site says of the Columbus St. Patrick's Day Parade:

"The Parade will form at Nationwide Blvd. and John H. McConnell Blvd., between 10:30am and 11am. It will step off 11:45am and proceed East on Nationwide Blvd. to High St., South on High St. to Broad St., West on Broad St. to Veteran's Memorial, where the Parade will disband at the direction of the Parade Marshals and the Shamrock Club's Annual Irish Family Reunion will begin."

Heagney wrote in the Columbus Dispatch: "The good news for all involved is that St. Patrick's Day doesn't fall during Holy Week often. It last happened in 1940, when the Shamrock Club canceled the Mass and parade according to the wishes of then-Bishop James J. Hartley."

Some US Cities are holding their St. Patrick's Day parades on March 17, 2008, others have moved parades and celebrations up...

I think Dublin Ohio always does their parade on the Saturday before St. Patrick's Day. The Dublin Ohio St. Patrick's Day parade is Saturday March 15, 2008 at 11:00 AM.

I'd love to hear from you if you have a comment on the topic of St. Patrick's Day celebrations in Central Ohio. All comments are moderated so you will not see your comment immediately. Thanks.

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