Don’t let your Holyday become just another holiday

As I sit here on what many would refer to as Easter Monday, I am happy and sad as I think of the situation within our world. I will turn 66 in June and have seen how the secular world has commandeered many of the great Holydays and turned them into holidays. The most obvious of those is Christmas, the celebration of Christ’s birth in the Christian tradition. The one that has followed fast, much to my dismay, is Easter, the celebration of the Resurrection of our Savior. I could give you many examples, but I’ll share one below.

I frequent a facility that is known worldwide for health and fitness. Ironically, this organization in many countries is still a bastion for Christian evangelization, but in this country, it has been slowly secularized. I commented to a staff member a week or so ago that I didn’t see any evidence of the real meaning of Easter, and the only decorations there were of eggs and bunnies. I haven’t gotten a response to my comment yet.

Even the Internet and what AI will share with you shows how the secular world has commandeered the original Holyday and made it just another holiday. Read the comparison of the two words below from my search on Google:

The correct spelling is “holiday,” while “holyday” is an older, less common, and more archaic term. “Holiday” refers to a day of celebration or rest, either religious or secular, while “holyday” originally denoted a day of religious significance. 

I’ll buy most of what is written, except for the editorial using the word “archaic”. For those like me who still cling to our faith, the coming of Easter is both happy and sad because we see just how the true meaning of the day, the season, has been eroded.

Many of you will have stopped reading by now. For those who have not, I encourage you to keep a steadfast faith and stand tall in knowing that Easter will always be a Holyday, the holiest of all Holydays.

Don’t let yourself ever be convinced otherwise.

PS. Even Grammarly has blurred the distinction between a holyday and a holiday. It highlighted every time I used the Holyday spelling as an error. I choose not to accept that.