A different way of looking at time

Well, to totally reinforce the concept that Catholics are weird, or at the very least, set apart in some incomprehensible fashion ... this is Holy Week. It is not just midway through March. This is the week where Catholics wish each other a "Happy Easter" and actually attend something like six hours of various religious services ... voluntarily spending Saturday night from 8 to 11 p.m. in Church. Imagine it. Imagine the waste of time. Of course, depending on your viewpoint, it is either a renewal of the very heart of your existence, or a dreadful waste of a Saturday night.
The whole Liturgical Calendar is a quite efficient way of reminding people that Christians are "a people set apart"; "in the world, but not of the world" which sounds quite odd. It is a wonderful, life renewing way of experiencing the passage of time - both in a yearly cycle of Advent, Christmas, Lent, Easter ... and the more secular understanding of time as simply a linear progression from birth to old age. To me, it is more like a spiral - each year both a linear progression, and at the same time, a deepening of spiritual understanding.

In any event - I wish all a Blessed Easter where we celebrate the death and Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ.