we are celebrating the rising of jesus and that he died for all of us to live
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I will be working for the kingdom of God not celebrating Easter or the bunny
The time for celebrating the Sacraments of Initiation is Easter.
A bank holiday isn't celebrating Easter and and Easter holiday is.
I guess because they are related....Christmas is celebrating the birth of Jesus and Easter is celebrating the death and resurection (coming back to life) of Jesus.
Celebrating The Easter Bunny
There are two: Christmas, celebrating the birth of our Savior, and Easter, celebrating the death and resurrection of Jesus which saved us from our sins.
Easter is a Christian holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ. You drape the Cross a few days before Easter.
Easter (spelled with a capital "E") is Christian because it is celebrating the day Jesus rose from the dead.
His name was Jesus Christ (christmas is celebrating his birth and Easter is celebrating his death)
It is a Christian Festival celebrating the resurrection of Christ after he had been crucified.
So about 310 AD I would say Easter was being celebrated throughout Rome and Europe.