Easter Approacheth

Promenade Forsythia from bqbennett via flickr

Of course, we can’t forget about the moveable feast of Palm Sunday tomorrow – fresh palm leaves in the house y’all! – but this CHB cub contributor and double-PK (that’s Preacher’s Kid) knows as well as anyone that Easter is the big one. Nature, if we’re lucky, will dress herself to the nines along with us, tulips and Promenade forsythia providing a banquet for the senses matched only by the aromas of the many roasting hams and lambs that will waft through our beloved blue slate-laden streets. So, this reporter asks humbly, where are you planning on worshipping for the grand reopening of the season?

Come Easter, you get to engage in chocolate/bacon/your vice of choice again, so you’ve got to make the celebration count! I’ve heard the spectacle at Riverside Church is worth making the trek uptown, but that’s awfully early for a long subway trek (and on the weekend no less!). Closer to home, Brooklyn Tabernacle is supposed to have quite a show, but the hour-long lines might distract the less spiritually-minded among us (though isn’t anything good in New York accompanied by a long line?).

Church-goers in the nabe are encountered with a glut of choices within an easy morning stroll. I know a friend or two that enjoy the Episcopal Services at Grace Church led by Rev. Stephen D. Muncie. I’ll be following the faith of my childhood to First Unitarian Brooklyn – if you get distracted during the service, you can always meditate on the flowing magnificence of the Tiffany windows on the west wall! No photos of these glorious windows anywhere on the entire internet?!? Guess I’ll have to fix that next week…