It has always bothered me that the symbol for Easter is a rodent. It is bad enough that the symbol for Pentecost is a dove, a fancy name for a white pigeon, or a trash bird. But the high and holy festival of Easter a rodent?

How’s that for a beginning to what is sometimes known as “Low Sunday?”

Okay, okay. Technically, no longer are rabbits classified as rodents. As of 1912, rabbits and hares went from being classified in the order Rodentia to a new order, Lagomorpha, which also includes pikas. But up until 1912 rabbits were rodents.

Most kids have rodents as pets at some point in their lives. Hamster? Gerbil? It might as well be a rat or a mouse. [At this point if you can showcase and storyboard one or more cages of pet hamsters or gerbils, and even get their “owners” to tell something…