Easter

No ... most stores are close during the weekend

Easter Sunday fell on April 12 in the following years 1705, 1716, 1789, 1846, 1857, 1868, 1903, 1914, 1925, 1936, 1998 and 2009. Easter Sunday is due to fall on this date again in the year 2020.

With God, all things are possible. There is probably a scientific explaination as to how God brought Jesus back from the dead. We are just not advanced enough yet. But Jesus was able to raise the dead also. Lazerus had been dead for about 2 or 3 days when he was brought back to life. The amazing thing about Jesus, He never took credit for his miracles but gave all credit to the Heavenly Father.

It has 3 days from the evening of Holy Thursday to the Vigil Mass on Holy Saturday. A Triduum is a period of three days preceding some special feast. The Easter Triduum is made up of Holy Thursday evening, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday.

• Everywhere they hunt the many-colored Easter eggs, brought by the Easter rabbit. This is not mere child's play, but the vestige of a fertility rite, the eggs and the rabbit both symbolizing fertility.
• The book The Two Babylons, by Alexander Hislop, had this to say: 'What means the term Easter itself? It is not a Christian name. It bears its Chaldean origin on its very forehead. Easter is nothing else than Astarte, one of the titles of Beltis, the queen of heaven, whose name, as found by Layard on the Assyrian monuments, is Ishtar. Such is the history of Easter. The popular observances that still attend the period of its celebration amply confirm the testimony of history as to its Babylonian character.' The hot cross buns of Good Friday, and the dyed eggs of Pasch or Easter Sunday, figured in the Chaldean rites just as they do now
• Here, the "dyed eggs" are mentioned as part of the Chaldean(Babylonian) rites. The Catholic Encyclopedia comments: A great many pagan customs, celebrating the return of Spring, gravitated to Easter. The egg is the emblem of the germinating life of early spring. The rabbit is a pagan symbol and has always been an emblem of fertility.
• Reference works that speak of the subject agree that the egg was a symbol of life and fertility among Pagans. The book Celebrations says: Eggs were said to be dyed and eaten at the Spring festivals in ancient Egypt, Persia, Greece, and Rome. The Persians of that time gave eggs as gifts at the vernal equinox.
• From these references, it is clear that the colored eggs originated in the ancient springtime fertility rites. The hunt, however, could also have originated there or came into play later, just as the annual Easter egg roll that occurs on the White House lawn. Again, maybe some others here will help with more info.
• A professor told us the true origin was an offshoot of the crusades through Ireland by French knights. The crusaders would bribe children with food or money, to tell them the names of all the farmers who practiced the pagan tradition of burying a blue egg in their fields with their wishes written on it, for the spring season, that supposedly brought fertility to their crops. The soldiers would then go to the farms of those found with eggs buried and execute the owners for practicing pagan rituals.

mcdonald's, jack in the box, wendy's, all those you dipf*ck. Quit asking stupid questions, how old are you? Like 8? Grow the f*ck up.

Easter Sunday last fell on April 18 in 1976. Easter Sunday has previously fallen on this date in the years 1745, 1756, 1802, 1813, 1824, 1897, 1954 and 1965. Easter Sunday will next fall on April 18 in 2049.

None of the big malls are open

Only on Easter Monday all malls are open

No, it is not open on Sunday.

The Pascal candle is lit on Easter vigil with the signs of Alpha and Omega and the Current year. Then five incense sticks are embeded into the candles indicating the five wounds of Jesus Christ.

Here are some future Easter dates in the next 10 years:

2016 - March 27

2017 - April 16

2018 - April 1

2019 - April 21

2020 - April 12

2021 - April 4

2022 - April 17

2023 - April 9

2024 - March 31

2025 - April 20

Christians celebrate the meaning of christ on easter sunday no chocolate is invovled in christians easter. Christains spend most of their time with their family on (easter) sunday.

In 1988, Easter Sunday fell on April 3.

Christians around the world celebrate Easter in much the same way. The day begins by attending special Easter church services. After the service, many go home to a special Easter meal with their family and friends.

For Catholics, the observance of Easter begins on Ash Wednesday, which is the beginning of Lent.

In many countries, the Easter bunny brings baskets of candy and hides hard-boiled eggs in the home or in the yard for children to find.

Many countries celebrate Easter in ways that are similar to the rest of the world, yet unique and special to that country. To read more about how Easter is celebrated in specific countries, see the Related Questions below.

Easter Sunday has occurred on April 9th only once in recent history, specifically in the year 1944. However, it's important to note that Easter's date changes each year, and it can fall on any Sunday between March 22 and April 25.

April 18th to the 26th

Well the french make baskets out of material such as twigs, grass, hay and straw etc. When they have made their baskets they hide it once everyone child has hidden their basket the church bells stop ringing on good Friday. They start again on Easter Sunday when all the magic bells have filled their basket. The children collect there basket and are allowed to eat the chocolate

Easter is held on the first Sunday after the first full moon occurring on or after the the northern hemisphere's spring equinox which is on the 21st of March. Easter is delayed by 1 week if the full moon is on Sunday. Easter can only be between the 22nd of March and the 25th of April. The first full moon after the 21st of March in 2014 was on Tuesday the 15th of April. The following Sunday was the 20th of April, and so that was Easter Sunday in 2014.

Palm Sunday is the Sunday before Easter Sunday. Having said this, for Palm Sunday to have fallen on April 12th, it would mean that Easter would have fallen on April 19th of the same year.

According to records, the last time Easter Sunday fell on April 19th and Palm Sunday fell on April 12th was in 1992.

Here are a few of the dates I have found where Palm Sunday would have fallen on April 12th.

1908

1981

1987

1992

and the next date being 2071.

I have to add a bit more information on here, this is very interesting to me, I've started back in 1700 all the way up until the year 2299, and found these dates of Easter Sunday falling on April 19th, thus Palm Sunday being on the 12th.

1767

1772

1778

1829

1835

1840

1908

1981

1987

1992

2071

2076

2082

2133

2139

2144

2201

2207

2212

2291

2296

The day your question was asked, April 24 2011, was Easter Sunday.

Easter Sunday has fallen on April 7th in the following years - 1765, 1822, 1833, 1844, 1901, 1912, 1985 and 1996. Easter Sunday is due to fall on this date again in the year 2075.

Easter eggs can be eaten at any time of the year.

However, traditionally, it is suggested that you begin to eat Easter eggs on Easter Sunday and continue to eat eggs until all have been consumed.

He watched Jesus die & felt sorry for the people who respected him so he started passing gifts out to those people. Soon the date got a name as a holiday. The bunny got out at that date every year.So that's how it got it's name. I think...

When Noah had to put 2 of each animal on the ark he forgot about the red bunnies and the white bunnies. As you know when you mix reds and whites in the laundry you get pink.....so when the flood came the rabbit fish burrowed under the around and laid eggs. Every year the red rabbits from underground lay eggs and the white rabbits return to their origins to take the red bunny eggs. That is where the Easter bunny gets his eggs. The short answer...... south Africa somewhere.