I just realized that I forgot to include the link to my new blog. ;P Sorry. So here it is: www.greenfreaxunited.blogspot.com
Enjoy, fans!!!
~Muffin (AKA Green Freak)
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
New Blog
Hey, everyone!!! I know this is the blog everyone knows and loves, and it's not like we're deleting it. Well, I'm not. I don't know about the rest of the Coffee Snobs. Since there seems to be a problem with the comments (as Bob Zenith pointed out to me at school) and nobody else is posting, Coffee Snobs doesn't really exist anymore. It's just Muffin. :(
The bad news aside, I created a new blog! It's not connected in any way to the Coffee Snobs or Latte's account, so it's completely, 100% new! I already posted on it, and there will be changes and modifications made. But if you're reading this, we switched! Hooray!
Remember to comment, etc. Smell ya people later!!!
~Muffin (now known as Green Freak)
The bad news aside, I created a new blog! It's not connected in any way to the Coffee Snobs or Latte's account, so it's completely, 100% new! I already posted on it, and there will be changes and modifications made. But if you're reading this, we switched! Hooray!
Remember to comment, etc. Smell ya people later!!!
~Muffin (now known as Green Freak)
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Switching
Okay, for anyone still reading this, I think we're going to switch. I mean, switch blogs. Because nobody is commenting, nobody is posting, and it's really boring. So when I create the new blog (on an all-new account, not Latte's) I'll let you guys know. But if you know anyone on the Coffee Snobs, you better tell them to start posting fast or this blog is gone.
~Muffin.
P.S. Please comment on this post.
~Muffin.
P.S. Please comment on this post.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Hi
Did anyone ever notice how many ways there are to say hi? Like, in English, there's hi, hello, yo, what's up, etc. In other languages there's hola, bonjour, aloha (which also means good-bye) and konichiwa (? sp ?).
Just thought I'd blurt something out. Happy Tuesday!
~Muffin.
Just thought I'd blurt something out. Happy Tuesday!
~Muffin.
Monday, April 6, 2009
Template Change (again)
Okay, people, the votes are in!!! We've gotten a variety of feedback and ideas, and we've come up with a conclusion: the template's staying the same. I know, a whole bunch of people are disappointed (don't stop reading, though! :) ) but I'll still change the colors around and stuff for the holidays. If you have anything you want to add to or say about this post, please comment.
Thanks you, readers of this blog!
~The Coffee Snobs
Thanks you, readers of this blog!
~The Coffee Snobs
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Sorry
Sorry for the inconvenience, but our comment window is for some reason unknown not working correctly. It is posting multiple comments of the same type, so until we get this fixed, I hope you don't mind duplicates!! :)
Template Change
Okay, people. I have a serious question for you guys. Comment on this post on your idea of the following question: Should the Coffee Snobs change the template (basically the background and layout) of this blog? I don't want just a yes or no reply. I want to know WHY. The more comments, the better, so start the feedback, people!
NOTE: The blog will be exactly the same, it's just that it will have an all new look to it. :)
Here are some of the different options:
NOTE: The blog will be exactly the same, it's just that it will have an all new look to it. :)
Here are some of the different options:
What Is Easter?
Easter is the annual festival commemorating the resurrection of Jesus Christ, and the principal feast of the Christian year. It is celebrated on a Sunday on varying dates between March 22 and April 25 and is therefore called a movable feast. The dates of several other ecclesiastical festivals, extending over a period between Septuagesima Sunday (the ninth Sunday before Easter) and the first Sunday of Advent, are fixed in relation to the date of Easter.
Connected with the observance of Easter are the 40-day penitential season of Lent, beginning on Ash Wednesday and concluding at midnight on Holy Saturday, the day before Easter Sunday; Holy Week, commencing on Palm Sunday, including Good Friday, the day of the crucifixion, and terminating with Holy Saturday; and the Octave of Easter, extending from Easter Sunday through the following Sunday. During the Octave of Easter in early Christian times, the newly baptized wore white garments, white being the liturgical color of Easter and signifying light, purity, and joy.
The Christian festival of Easter probably embodies a number of converging traditions; most scholars emphasize the original relation of Easter to the Jewish festival of Passover, or Pesach, from which is derived Pasch, another name for Easter. The early Christians, many of whom were of Jewish origin, were brought up in the Hebrew tradition and regarded Easter as a new feature of the Passover festival, a commemoration of the advent of the Messiah as foretold by the prophets.
An article from Funk & Wagnalls® New Encyclopedia. © 2005 World Almanac Education Group, A WRC Media Company
Just another little fun-filled moment from yours truly. :) Hope you're having a great Spring Break, guys!
~Muffin.
Connected with the observance of Easter are the 40-day penitential season of Lent, beginning on Ash Wednesday and concluding at midnight on Holy Saturday, the day before Easter Sunday; Holy Week, commencing on Palm Sunday, including Good Friday, the day of the crucifixion, and terminating with Holy Saturday; and the Octave of Easter, extending from Easter Sunday through the following Sunday. During the Octave of Easter in early Christian times, the newly baptized wore white garments, white being the liturgical color of Easter and signifying light, purity, and joy.
The Christian festival of Easter probably embodies a number of converging traditions; most scholars emphasize the original relation of Easter to the Jewish festival of Passover, or Pesach, from which is derived Pasch, another name for Easter. The early Christians, many of whom were of Jewish origin, were brought up in the Hebrew tradition and regarded Easter as a new feature of the Passover festival, a commemoration of the advent of the Messiah as foretold by the prophets.
An article from Funk & Wagnalls® New Encyclopedia. © 2005 World Almanac Education Group, A WRC Media Company
Just another little fun-filled moment from yours truly. :) Hope you're having a great Spring Break, guys!
~Muffin.
Monday, March 23, 2009
When Is Easter?
Easter 2009
Easter 2009 will take place on Sunday, April 12.
Easter Calendar
Easter 2010 will be Sunday, April 4.
Easter 2011 will be Sunday, April 24.
Easter 2012 will be Sunday, April 8.
Easter in the Early Church
According to the New Testament, Christ was crucified on the eve of Passover and shortly afterward rose from the dead. In consequence, the Easter festival commemorated Christ's resurrection. In time, a serious difference over the date of the Easter festival arose among Christians. Those of Jewish origin celebrated the resurrection immediately following the Passover festival, which, according to their Babylonian lunar calendar, fell on the evening of the full moon (the 14th day in the month of Nisan, the first month of the year); by their reckoning, Easter, from year to year, fell on different days of the week.
Christians of Gentile origin, however, wished to commemorate the resurrection on the first day of the week, Sunday; by their method, Easter occurred on the same day of the week, but from year to year it fell on different dates. An important historical result of the difference in reckoning the date of Easter was that the Christian churches in the East, which were closer to the birthplace of the new religion and in which old traditions were strong, observed Easter according to the date of the Passover festival. The churches of the West, descendants of Greco-Roman civilization, celebrated Easter on a Sunday.
Rulings of the Council of Nicaea on the Date of Easter
Constantine I, Roman emperor, convoked the Council of Nicaea in 325. The council unanimously ruled that the Easter festival should be celebrated throughout the Christian world on the first Sunday after the full moon following the vernal equinox; and that if the full moon should occur on a Sunday and thereby coincide with the Passover festival, Easter should be commemorated on the Sunday following. Coincidence of the feasts of Easter and Passover was thus avoided.
The Council of Nicaea also decided that the calendar date of Easter was to be calculated at Alexandria, then the principal astronomical center of the world. The accurate determination of the date, however, proved an impossible task in view of the limited knowledge of the 4th-century world. The principal astronomical problem involved was the discrepancy, called the epact, between the solar year and the lunar year. The chief calendric problem was a gradually increasing discrepancy between the true astronomical year and the Julian calendar then in use.
Later Dating Methods
Ways of fixing the date of the feast tried by the church proved unsatisfactory, and Easter was celebrated on different dates in different parts of the world. In 387, for example, the dates of Easter in France and Egypt were 35 days apart. About 465, the church adopted a system of calculation proposed by the astronomer Victorinus (fl. 5th cent.), who had been commissioned by Pope Hilarius (r. 461–68) to reform the calendar and fix the date of Easter. Elements of his method are still in use. Refusal of the British and Celtic Christian churches to adopt the proposed changes led to a bitter dispute between them and Rome in the 7th century.
Reform of the Julian calendar in 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII, through adoption of the Gregorian calendar, eliminated much of the difficulty in fixing the date of Easter and in arranging the ecclesiastical year; since 1752, when the Gregorian calendar was also adopted in Great Britain and Ireland, Easter has been celebrated on the same day in the Western part of the Christian world. The Eastern churches, however, which did not adopt the Gregorian calendar, commemorate Easter on a Sunday either preceding or following the date observed in the West. Occasionally the dates coincide; the most recent times were in 1865 and 1963.
Because the Easter holiday affects a varied number of secular affairs in many countries, it has long been urged as a matter of convenience that the movable dates of the festival be either narrowed in range or replaced by a fixed date in the manner of Christmas. In 1923 the problem was referred to the Holy See, which has found no canonical objection to the proposed reform. In 1928 the British Parliament enacted a measure allowing the Church of England to commemorate Easter on the first Sunday after the second Saturday in April. Despite these steps toward reform, Easter continues to be a movable feast.
An article from Funk & Wagnalls® New Encyclopedia. © 2005 World Almanac Education Group, A WRC Media Company
Okay, guys. You probably think I'm crazy, because I know that NOBODY will read all of this mind-boggling stuff. I just thought the top few facts were cool, and they're located at...check this out...the TOP of the post. Huh? How cool is that? Anyway, I'm going to be posting a question a day about Easter until I run out of facts, or at least articles on the Encylopedia. Peace out, homedogs.
~Muffin, the Easter expert.
Easter 2009 will take place on Sunday, April 12.
Easter Calendar
Easter 2010 will be Sunday, April 4.
Easter 2011 will be Sunday, April 24.
Easter 2012 will be Sunday, April 8.
Easter in the Early Church
According to the New Testament, Christ was crucified on the eve of Passover and shortly afterward rose from the dead. In consequence, the Easter festival commemorated Christ's resurrection. In time, a serious difference over the date of the Easter festival arose among Christians. Those of Jewish origin celebrated the resurrection immediately following the Passover festival, which, according to their Babylonian lunar calendar, fell on the evening of the full moon (the 14th day in the month of Nisan, the first month of the year); by their reckoning, Easter, from year to year, fell on different days of the week.
Christians of Gentile origin, however, wished to commemorate the resurrection on the first day of the week, Sunday; by their method, Easter occurred on the same day of the week, but from year to year it fell on different dates. An important historical result of the difference in reckoning the date of Easter was that the Christian churches in the East, which were closer to the birthplace of the new religion and in which old traditions were strong, observed Easter according to the date of the Passover festival. The churches of the West, descendants of Greco-Roman civilization, celebrated Easter on a Sunday.
Rulings of the Council of Nicaea on the Date of Easter
Constantine I, Roman emperor, convoked the Council of Nicaea in 325. The council unanimously ruled that the Easter festival should be celebrated throughout the Christian world on the first Sunday after the full moon following the vernal equinox; and that if the full moon should occur on a Sunday and thereby coincide with the Passover festival, Easter should be commemorated on the Sunday following. Coincidence of the feasts of Easter and Passover was thus avoided.
The Council of Nicaea also decided that the calendar date of Easter was to be calculated at Alexandria, then the principal astronomical center of the world. The accurate determination of the date, however, proved an impossible task in view of the limited knowledge of the 4th-century world. The principal astronomical problem involved was the discrepancy, called the epact, between the solar year and the lunar year. The chief calendric problem was a gradually increasing discrepancy between the true astronomical year and the Julian calendar then in use.
Later Dating Methods
Ways of fixing the date of the feast tried by the church proved unsatisfactory, and Easter was celebrated on different dates in different parts of the world. In 387, for example, the dates of Easter in France and Egypt were 35 days apart. About 465, the church adopted a system of calculation proposed by the astronomer Victorinus (fl. 5th cent.), who had been commissioned by Pope Hilarius (r. 461–68) to reform the calendar and fix the date of Easter. Elements of his method are still in use. Refusal of the British and Celtic Christian churches to adopt the proposed changes led to a bitter dispute between them and Rome in the 7th century.
Reform of the Julian calendar in 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII, through adoption of the Gregorian calendar, eliminated much of the difficulty in fixing the date of Easter and in arranging the ecclesiastical year; since 1752, when the Gregorian calendar was also adopted in Great Britain and Ireland, Easter has been celebrated on the same day in the Western part of the Christian world. The Eastern churches, however, which did not adopt the Gregorian calendar, commemorate Easter on a Sunday either preceding or following the date observed in the West. Occasionally the dates coincide; the most recent times were in 1865 and 1963.
Because the Easter holiday affects a varied number of secular affairs in many countries, it has long been urged as a matter of convenience that the movable dates of the festival be either narrowed in range or replaced by a fixed date in the manner of Christmas. In 1923 the problem was referred to the Holy See, which has found no canonical objection to the proposed reform. In 1928 the British Parliament enacted a measure allowing the Church of England to commemorate Easter on the first Sunday after the second Saturday in April. Despite these steps toward reform, Easter continues to be a movable feast.
An article from Funk & Wagnalls® New Encyclopedia. © 2005 World Almanac Education Group, A WRC Media Company
Okay, guys. You probably think I'm crazy, because I know that NOBODY will read all of this mind-boggling stuff. I just thought the top few facts were cool, and they're located at...check this out...the TOP of the post. Huh? How cool is that? Anyway, I'm going to be posting a question a day about Easter until I run out of facts, or at least articles on the Encylopedia. Peace out, homedogs.
~Muffin, the Easter expert.
Rainy Days
Twenty Things to Do on a Rainy Day
Aren't rainy days a real bummer? Well here are some fun things to do even while the sun is not shining. Don't worry, the sun will be back to play before you know it - and you'll be having fun in the meantime!
http://www.associatedcontent.comarticle/63195/twenty_things_to_do_on_a_rainy_day.html
lol, don't freak out guys. I didn't make this. I got it off of a Google search for "things to do on a rainy day" 'cause I'm really REALLY bored right now. I read through it, and it's kinda cheesy. But I love cheese, so there's no problem there. :)
Have a great rainy day, people of America, Switzerland, and Wisconsin!
~Muffin.
Aren't rainy days a real bummer? Well here are some fun things to do even while the sun is not shining. Don't worry, the sun will be back to play before you know it - and you'll be having fun in the meantime!
http://www.associatedcontent.comarticle/63195/twenty_things_to_do_on_a_rainy_day.html
lol, don't freak out guys. I didn't make this. I got it off of a Google search for "things to do on a rainy day" 'cause I'm really REALLY bored right now. I read through it, and it's kinda cheesy. But I love cheese, so there's no problem there. :)
Have a great rainy day, people of America, Switzerland, and Wisconsin!
~Muffin.
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