No.They can get baptized any moment of the year. John The Baptist baptized anywhere any place, any time.
Roman Catholic Answer: The Easter Vigil is as close as we can get to the Mass of the first couple centuries, it begins in the evening, after dark, on Saturday night before Easter and has up to nine or ten readings from the Bible. It usually runs between two and three hours, and is very beautiful. During the Vigil, adults who are coming into the church are baptised if they have not been baptised before, all baptised converts and people returning to the church are confirmed, if they have not been so before. They then go on to make their first Holy Communion.
The New Zealand Easter sale is currently on and during the Easter holiday.
christmas and thanksgiving, and easter were the only ones!
Yes
we eat Easter eggs at Easter to celebrate new life.
With only 55% of its population calling themselves Christians, Easter in New Zealand is becoming increasingly secular. Still, many attend church services on Easter. Hot Cross Buns and chocolate Easter eggs are popular, and children enjoy Easter egg hunts. To read more, go to the Related Link below.
The Orthodox Church uses the old Julian calendar to calculate Easter, whereas the Roman Catholics and Protestants use the new Gregorian calendar. Previously, they all used the same Julian calendar, until Pope Gregory XIII changed it (and named the new calendar after himself) in 1582. This means that Easter for Roman Catholics and Protestants can often take place before the Jewish passover, which is chronologically inaccurate, whereas Orthodox Easter is always after the Jewish passover, which is the historically accurate sequence of events.
because they represent new life.
With only 55% of its population calling themselves Christians, Easter in New Zealand is becoming increasingly secular. Still, many attend church services on Easter. Hot Cross Buns and chocolate Easter eggs are popular, and children enjoy Easter egg hunts. To read more, go to the Related Link below.
The bright colors on Easter Eggs represent the new sunlight in the spring.
The Jordan River figures prominently in the New Testament as the place where Jesus was baptised.
New Jerusalem, inasmuch as it is a Biblical name for a renewed earth following the Apocalypse, is accepted by Catholics.