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HAPPY
EASTER
Well as we all
know it is Easter very soon!! What do you have planned? Do you have any special
family traditions?
We have been
discussing this on the
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join us.
What is
Easter?
Easter is the time for
holidays, festivals and a time for giving chocolate Easter eggs. But Easter
means much more....
Easter is the oldest and the most
important Christian Festival,
the celebration of the death and coming to
life again of Jesus Christ.
For Christians, the
dawn of Easter Sunday with its message of new life is the high point of the
Christian year.
What is the Easter story ?
Easter is the story of Jesus' last days in
Jerusalem before his death. The Easter story includes
Maundy Thursday
(the Last supper leading to the Eucharist),
Good Friday
(the day on which Jesus was crucified) and
Easter Day (the
day on which Jesus came back to life).
Where does the name 'Easter' come
from?
Pagan traditions give us the English word "Easter"
which comes from the word "Eostre". The Anglo-Saxon
word for April was "Eostre-monath" (the month of
openings). However, it should be remembered that Christians celebrated the
resurrection of Christ long before the word "Easter" was used, and the word they
used for the celebration was "Pascha", which is
derived from and linked to the Jewish festival of Passover.
According to
Bede, the
English monastic historian, the English word Easter
comes from the
Anglo-Saxon
name for the month of
April, which
was known as "Eostremonath" in the AngloSaxon
tongue and since Pascha was most often celebrated
in Eostremonath, the English Christians began
calling it "Easter". Bede also notes that the month was named after the
Anglo-Saxon goddess Esostre.
Rituals related to the goddess Eostre
focus on new beginnings, symbolized by the Easter egg, and fertility, which is
symbolized by the hare (or Easter bunny).
When is Easter?
Easter usually comes in the month of April.
However, Easter can fall as early as March 22 or as late as April 25.Easter
Day in 2008 falls on
Sunday 23 March. It is
the earliest it will be until at least 2030!
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