Is the disappearance of the Easter Monday holidays, is it serious for Christians?

François Bayrou proposed, to fight against the French deficit, to suppress two holidays, that of May 8 which evokes the end of the 1945 conflict in France. And that of Easter Monday. Other possibilities are still open for the debates that will take place in Parliament, before decision.

1. Some networks see in this disappearance a bad idea. Or even an attack on the country’s Christian cultural background, which would thus continue to get deceased quickly. Political leaders would contribute to it by choosing a form of secularism that would seek to erase Christian symbols. But the caricature is never very far away and for certain political circles each opportunity is good to maintain the denunciation of “adversaries”. An approach which, despite appearances, does not have much evangelical.

2. In fact, the public holiday on Monday of Easter, reminds Christians that the central feast of Christian Passover is celebrated during the following eight days, but also until Pentecost (Pascal Time). He also recalls how in the Middle Ages, these religious festive periods, often accompanied by long celebrations and a period of important fasts, also needed a day of “rest”, to find the ordinary rhythm of life. Today, Easter Monday has become for many the occasion for family, sporting, cultural meetings.

3. Finally, no Christian is prohibited from taking the days of leave or RTT necessary to celebrate his faith. But how much do it do, for example, to celebrate the Pascal triduum? Or to take a time of withdrawal before celebrating Christmas?