So I was about to go to a local sandwich shop close to where I live in town for my first taste of meat since the beginning of the onset of Lent. However, they had a sign up stating they were closed for Easter Sunday. My first thought was that it seemed strange in this day and age for a restaurant to close on Easter. Christmas, it is still customary, even though much of the Christmas season has been taken over with secular winter festivities and the commercialization of gift giving for the sake of giving gifts, and the hope of stores to end the final quarter of the year on a high note. None of the old customs of true liberality, in the largesse, as it were, of generosity, which was the old fashion of Christendom in the middle ages before its decadence into modernity, have survived, save maybe as a matter of trivia and frivolity. More often than not, such things are footnotes in dusty old history books, not to mention poems and songs that have long ago lost their luster in the world. Such fashions of the largesse liberality of the Middle Ages have gone for better, or, quite possibly more true, for the worse.
