Easter

Many years ago, during a late-night walk through Oxford’s beautiful Botanical Gardens, two men discussed whether the life and death of Christ was a fairy story. Both men agreed that indeed it was: one man, an atheist literature professor, averred that the life and death of Christ was no more than a fairy story, but the other, a Catholic philologist, argued that it was the one true fairy story, of which all other fairy stories were but pale shadows. The latter argument, proffered by J.R.R. Tolkien, won the day, and C.S. Lewis converted to Christianity.

HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!

I hope you are all having a wonderful day.

Yes there will be ham for Xavier and I hope all of you share a lovely meal with family and friends.

I will  take a walk on this sunny afternoon and purchase a certain seasonal chocolate confection someone I know is fond of.

Please enjoy the day and thank you all for helping make it wonderful!

Pope wishes worshippers Happy Easter after serious illness

What a great thing it is that besides providing consolation, hope and meaning for so many, the Christian religion over the parade of centuries has inspired the greatest achievements of the human creative mind. The Easter weekend calls us to notice this.

Britain’s Christian chocolatiers are losing faith

Britain’s first chocolate Easter egg was sold 150 years ago this year, by the chocolatier, Joseph Fry. It was hollow and filled with sweets. Whether Fry’s primary interest was in the egg as a Christian symbol, or whether the creation of a hollow egg was a means of showing off the new technique he had developed for moulding chocolate is, well, a chicken and egg question.