Easter

You might want to rethink that idea.

Party-goers may have to consider confirming with night clubs before heading out this weekend, as some clubs will be close or host closed events over the Easter period.

Loop PNG talked with a few nightclubs:

The Cosmopolitan confirmed no activities from Friday through to Sunday.

Other smaller clubs like Regal Bar has also confirmed to be close though Easter.

Some have pushed forward events that were prior scheduled for the Easter weekend. 

Rev. Joseph, in his Easter message said that while the object of focus is often on the rugged Cross at Easter, we must focus on the characters before, during and after the Cross.

Some of the characters are that of Peter, Judas, King Harod, Pilate, Simon of Cyrene and Joseph of Arimathea and the crowd.

Rev. Joseph said these characters contributed one way or the other to the Cross.

He explained that the Cross is where we see the love of Christ fully demonstrated, though without sin, giving up his life to save the world.

Despite the extreme heat of the sun, parishioners reenacted the passion and suffering of Christ as the crowd looked on to witness the scene played by the youths.

Sir John Cardinal Ribat made an entrance to bless the Cross before it was to be brought into the church.

The congregation came in numbers escorted by traffic police to the final station which was taken up the parishioners of Mary Queen of Pacific.

This is the first time the Station of the Cross has taken a route up the Poreporena Freeway with a crowd numbering up to more than a thousand at one time.

Traffic police escort drove ahead to clear traffic as the congregation move into the final stretch of walk towards the last few stations.

The cross is currently at the 12th Station just outside Vision City with more people joining the procession or march.

This is the last leg of the walk as the congregation carries the Cross  and head for Mary Queen of Pacific Parish.

Stay tuned to Loop PNG for more updates.

Dr Suresh Venkita from the Pacific International Hospital reminds you that “a high intake of sugar any time is unwise”.

In an apparently healthy person, he says, sugar is a fuel which has to be burned efficiently and quickly before it is turned into fat (like surplus money which is parked in a fixed deposit!).

There’s also the risk of accidents due to high sugar intake in one time.

How?

UK-based chocolaterie Choccywoccydoodah is known for its outlandish, extravagant creations, and their Easter collection this year is no exception.

The window of their store in Brighton, Sussex, is currently decked out with chocolate Easter eggs that tower over customers, and attract Instagrammers in their droves.

And they all come with a price tag as impressive as their stature -- these giant eggs cost upwards of $31,128 (£25,000).

This happens another five times and it isn't even lunchtime on Good Friday yet.

Before you know it, you've eaten more than 20 teaspoons of sugar, and that's on top of your regular diet.

It's a common story in the holiday period — especially one increasingly wedded to particular snack foods. So how guilty should you actually feel about it?

First, the scary part about sugar

KPMG performance coach and fitness fiend Andrew May crunched the numbers on the sugar content of the popular Easter items, and it's not great reading.

Easter falls on the Holy Week which is the last week of lent -commonly starting off with Palm Sunday.

This is followed by Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Saturday, Easter Sunday and Easter Monday.

This Easter, Catholics and faithful’s in the nation’s capital will once again walk the Stations of the Cross tomorrow morning as part of their Easter ritual.

The scheduled route for the Stations of the Cross in Port Moresby will start at Don Bosco Technical Institute at 4am in the morning.

“Throughout Christian communities in cities, towns and villages around our Nation, we celebrate our Faith. This Easter we will again be reminded of the enormous sacrifice that Our Lord and Saviour made on the cross on the first Good Friday.

“On Easter Sunday, the sadness of his suffering will be replaced by the glory of his resurrection. The good will overcome evil, which will strengthen the foundations for our Christian church that serves our nation so well today.

According to the Archdiocese of Port Moresby the route will start at the St John’s Parish at 4am led by the St John’s parish.

Station 2 will be at TST Fire where St Pauls’s parish will lead with the prayers then on to the Kone Tigers area where St Charles parish will receive the cross.

The fourth station at Dream Inn will be led by Mary Queen of the Pacific and UPNG Youths, then St Martin de Porres youths will lead at station 5 at the Vulupindi bus stop.