Easter

"Blessed is that Servant whom He Shall Find Waiting" An Exhortation to Vigilance Sermon on Vigilance by Fr. William Chiganos "Be dressed in readiness," Jesus begins in Luke 12, "and keep your lamps alight" (v. 35), because at any moment, He can step through the door of history and return to us for good. As His bride, will we be eagerly waiting for Him? Will He find a ready home and a tender, welcoming heart? Or will He return to an empty, run-down house, where people grew tired of waiting and moved somewhere else? -- A place where the people He people He loved forgot all about Him? Will He find joy or uneasy surprise? Jesus, of course, would rather find joy. Let's look again at His counsel in verse 35, so we can live in bright anticipation instead of trembling dread:

"Be dressed in readiness, and keep your lamps alight."

Excerpted from Source:

http://www.goarch.org/archdiocese/departments/outreach/resources/sermons/2005/vigilance

On PALM SUNDAY EVENING, as well as on the evenings of Holy Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, the faithful gather for the Nymphios or Bridegroom Services that include readings, hymns, and commemorations that anticipate the Passion of Christ.

Source:

http://www.goarch.org/news/2007-03-21-archbishopexhorts

Easter Day (in the Western Church) was 19th April 1987

God created them as all other things. What do rabbits and eggs have to do with Easter? Nothing really. They are related to the fertility rites that Easter is built upon. Rabbits can have several litters of babies a year, so they are symbols of procreation. Eggs are, to some ancient peoples, the source of life. They have nothing to do with Easter.

Easter Sunday has fallen on March 29 in the years 1739, 1750, 1807, 1812, 1959, 1964 and 1970. Easter Sunday will again fall on March 29 in 2043.

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The Pentecost is usually seven weeks after Easter Sunday. The Pentecost usually comes 50 days after Easter. The days counted include Easter Day.

march 31, 1991 I don't know about when it was last in March but the last time it was earlier that this was 95 years ago and the next time will be in 2228

BILLY GRAHAM wrote hot cross buns

Jesus observed Passover, as he was Jewish. Easter did not exist then. It was his resurrection that created Easter.

Easter Is always just the Sunday after Good Friday and it just became a tradition

well they don't always but yeah

The washing of the feet takes place on Holy thusday.

In 2010, Easter Sunday fell on April 4.

You are never too old for the Easter bunny!

While Good Friday and Easter Monday are national holidays in some countries and would have no mail delivery on those days, mail would be delivered on other days, including Easter Tuesday.

There will be many open in countries that do not celebrate Easter.

Easter Sunday has fallen on April 17 in the years 1718, 1729, 1740, 1808, 1870, 1881, 1892, 1927, 1938, 1949 and 1960. Easter Sunday will next fall on April 17 in 2022.

• Not all Christians celebrate Easter so No

The orthodox Easter is celebrated on different dates as Easter in Australia because the orthodox religion follows the Jewish. This is the Sunday after the Jewish Passover and when the hours in the day are equal to the hours of the night called the "Equlbruim". The Sunday ( a week after the Jewish Passover) is called Palm Sunday for the Orthodox Christians. The Orthodox Christians use this tradition because that is the way it hs been instructed in the Bible.

yh its always after the first full moon yh its always after the first full moon

There is no real rule on this one. Most Catholics choose to leave the ashes on their head the entire day, and many people at my parish (including myself) choose this route and wipe them off before bed.

• Easter is a pagan holiday that Christians adopted into their religion. The idea of an Easter egg hunt within this Holiday comes from the Goddess of fertility that the pagans had.
• Easter eggs were originally known as "isthar eggs" to celebrate His resurrection from the dead.
• Rabbits have lots of babies, and eggs are where babies come from. In pagan cultures it was popular to paint the maidens and hide them in the Forrest and fields before the young men went and found them. It's in the spring when a lot of animals are born. To Christians the resurrection of Jesus fell nicely into this pagan celebration of life.
• In addition, the ancient pagans of Europe had a spring-fertility goddess known as, Eastre. Her symbols were the swan. In one legend, she is tricked into turning into a rabbit, not realizing she cannot turn back. She still retains her powers of fertility (symbolized by the egg) however, and thus you have an egg-laying rabbit. So the symbols of rebirth (the egg) and of Spring ( when it seems rabbits overrun the woods) were joined and survived with the coming of Christianity. It was then quite easy for the missionary Christians to bring together an ancient concept of Easter, the important pagan time of rebirth with the idea of a "reborn" or resurrected god in Christ. It may not seem it in these times, but Easter is the most important day of the Christian world. It is the day of resurrection and proof of everlasting life. Thus, for a large population, already accustomed to spring-rebirth celebrations, it was quite easy to transition to the new religion.
• "The Westminster Dictionary of the Bible says that Easter was originally the spring festival in honor of the Teutonic goddess of light and spring known in Anglo-Saxon as Eastre, or Eostre. In any case, the Encyclopedia Britannica (11th Edition) states: 'There is no indication of the observance of the Easter festival in the New Testament.' "The book Medieval Holidays and Festivals tells us that the holiday is named after the pagan Goddess of the Dawn and of Spring, Eostre. And who was this goddess? Eostre it was who, according to the legend, opened the portals of Valhalla to receive Baldur, called the White God, because of his purity and also the Sun God, because his brow supplied light to mankind, answers The American Book of Days. It adds: 'There is no doubt that the Church in its early days adopted the old pagan customs and gave a Christian meaning to them. As the festival of Eostre was in celebration of the renewal of life in the spring it was easy to make it a celebration of the resurrection from the dead of Jesus, whose gospel they preached.'
• "This adoption explains how in certain lands the Easter customs, such as Easter eggs, the Easter rabbit, and hot cross buns, came about. Concerning the custom of making hot cross buns, with their shiny brown tops marked by a cross, the book Easter and Its Customs states: The cross was a pagan symbol long before it acquired everlasting significance from the events of the first Good Friday, and bread and cakes were sometimes marked with it in pre-Christian times.
• "The book Curiosities of Popular Customs answers: It was the invariable policy of the early Church to give a Christian significance to such of the extant pagan ceremonies as could not be rooted out. In the case of Easter the conversion was peculiarly easy. Joy at the rising of the natural sun, and at the awakening of nature from the death of winter, became joy at the rising of the Sun of righteousness, at the resurrection of Christ from the grave. Some of the pagan observances that took place about the 1st of May were also shifted to correspond with the celebration of Easter. So Easter is actually a Pagan ritual that was absorbed by the church.
• Easter was originally a celebration of the fertility god Ashtoreth of Babylon. More commonly known as Ishtar (Easter) is the praise of fertility, (eggs) birth, (mother and child) and was incorporated into celebration of Jesus resurrection because the catholic church didn't want to stop the pagan worship they folded it into ours to keep the peace and money flowing. It will be exposed and punished severely in the near future by King Jesus. The Christians first celebrated this holiday, because Jesus rose from the dead on the third day, (Easter).

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