The Holy Festival Of “Easter”

SACRIFICE OF JESUS (SON OF GOD)
Which celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ on the third day after his crucifixion? So, if you believe in him you will live forever in heaven.

Why Is It Called Easter?

The word Easter most likely comes from the Anglo-Saxon month “Eostremonath” which was about the time of year we now call April, when the Christian festival was held. The month seems to be named after a German goddess ‘Eostre’ or ‘Ostara’. Easter is also called Pascha (Greek, Latin) or Resurrection Sunday.

When Is It Celebrated?

About 4000 years ago when Jewish people remember that god saved them from slavery in Egypt.

Jesus was a Jew and so celebrates the Passover. It takes place in the first moth of the Jewish New Year and Jewish calendar follows the cycle of the Moon, so the date changes a bit every year.

Easter is celebrated around the same time of year that he was killed. This is because Jesus died at the time of the Jewish Passover festival.

This is also called “Holy week”, which contains the days of the Easter triduum (period of three days) , including Maundy Thursday ( commemorates the washing of the feet), as well as Good Friday (commemorating crucifixion of Jesus & his death on Calvary) which is also known as Black Friday, great Friday or holy Friday.

In eastern Christianity, the season of Pascha begins on the Pascha and ends with the coming of the 40th day, the Feast of ascension ( rising of Jesus into heaven ).

For Christians, the full Easter period lasted for a long time. Easter officially starts with lent on Ash Wednesday (holy day of prayer and fasting), 46 days before Easter day.
Lent lasts for 40 days but you don’t count the Sundays! Then 39 days after Easter day, Christians celebrate Ascension Day, when they remember Jesus going back into heaven and promising to come back to earth one day..

Easter officially ends 49 days after Easter day with the Christian festival of Pentecost or Whitsun, when Christian remember that god sent his holy spirit to help Christians. This makes Easter is a very busy time for Christians!

Is There Any Connection of Spring and Easter?

Most major holidays have some connections with the changes of season. This is specially in the case of Christmas.

The New Testament gives no information when Jesus exactly born. Many scholars believe, the main reason of Jesus birth came to be celebrated on 25 December because it was the date of winter solstice according to the Roman calendar.

Since the days following the winter solstice gradually become longer and less dark, it was ideal symbolism of the birth of “the light of the word”.

Also during the Easter time equal timing of light and darkness is seen.
For those in northern latitudes, the coming of spring is often met with excitement, as it means an end to the cold days of winter.

Spring also means of new life, new beginning after the dormant winter. given symbolism of rebirth and new life. And that’s why it was only natural to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus at this time of the year.

What is Easter? How is it Celebrated?

This is one of the principle holidays or feasts of Christianity. Easter is a joyful end to the lantern winter.

Easter is often a public holiday. As Easter is always a Sunday, many countries in the world also have Easter Monday as a public holiday. Good Friday, which occurs two days before Easter Sunday, is also a public holiday in many countries.

This is the celebration of love, unity, togetherness, joy, fun, enjoyment, enlightened, spiritual, prayerful familiar festival. It is the point where holidays development that Easter eggs and the Easter bunny becomes especially important.

Many people worldwide celebrate eaters with special church services, music, candlelight, flowers and the ringing of church bells…!!

Many people view Easter as the greatest feast of the church year. It is a day of joy and celebration to commemorates the Jesus Christ is risen.

Many people celebrate this festival with their love ones, with their families. To enjoy this Sunday Easter time with lots of good quality food like cakes, meat products, drinks, candlelight, flowers, offering gift to each other.

1. This Is the beautiful way to celebrate the beauty of what the sacrifice that god made for his people to save them from the sting of sin and death.
2. Cleaning of houses for this festival and make it decorated for the risen back of Jesus.
   Also cleaning of own self with the toxins and coldness of winter season with the rejuvenation of spring.
3. Wrapping kids like a Jesus. This is a fun way to get kids into the habit of remembering what Christ went through and helping them have a visual way to lock the story into their minds and hearts.
4. Cooking special dinner. Take time 40 days after Easter, to celebrate this day with your family. Make a special dinner, go on picnic, invite friends from church to celebrate with you.
5. Celebrate beautiful Easter with decorated eggs and the bunny.

Celebration of Love

There is one celebration for love toward each other in which, a man or boys going to her favorite girl home and throwing a water or perfumes on her to express his love for her.

Why Eggs?

1. In many cultures around the world, the egg is a symbol of new life, fertility and rebirth.
2. Iranian new year that define the spring equinox.
3. For Christian it’s a symbol of resurrection of Jesus Christ.
4. The hard shell of egg represents the sealed tomb of Christ and cracking the shell represent Jesus resurrection from the dead.
5. Historically Christian would abstain from eating eggs and meat during lent and Easter was the first chance to eat eggs after a long period of abstinence.
6. Easter egg hunts and egg rolling are two popular egg – related tradition. An egg hunt involves hiding of eggs outside for children to run around and find on Easter morning.
7. Eggs are rolled as a symbol of reenactment of the rolling away of the stone from Christ tomb.
8. In the united states, the Easter egg roll is an annual event that is held on the white house lawn each Monday after Easter. (But due to Covid-19 this year in 2020 the white house Easter egg roll has been canceled.)

The Significance of Bunny?

1)Bunnies are a leftover from the pagan festival of Eostre, a great northern goddess whose symbol was a rabbit or hare.
2)Bunny usually also symbol as new life or rebirth, because they give birth to a big litter of babies (called kitten).
3)Easter bunny lays, decorate and hides egg as they are also a symbol of new life.

 

Meaning behind painted color eggs? and meaning of each color?

There was one pagan story behind gifting this painted egg, in Passover there was a poor lady who cannot gift her children anything on Easter so she paints the eggs with by own and gifted children, which was the easier, cheaper and joyful gift for them.

 

 

Red egg – The main color of Easter egg because it represent also the meaning of JesusChrist blood which sheds on cross. Red is also color of love and togetherness.
Indigo – Consciousness
White – Jesus cloths, love, peace, forgiveness, victory.
Green – Healthy, nutritious, rehabilitation, harmony, freshness.
Purple – Communication, with someone, unity.
Yellow – Brightness, unconditional love, prosperity, refreshing.
Blue egg – Learning more, for new idea, knowledge, calmness, protection.
Lavender – Soul (spirit)

Scientific Reasoning as per Ayurveda or Importance of Easter

As you have read above, it was a rebirth of the Jesus Christ for his disciple, family, and followers.

The Christians after winter, go on fasting period which is called “Husvet” in Hungarian, which means no meat for 40 days until Easter & starting of meat from Easter time, also called lent (German) which means for Christian means abstinence of meat during this time.

So, if we see, this is the time of winter when usually one has to stop meat or heavy digestive food because of poor Agni (digestive fire), and poor digestion.

And as the season changes to spring when there is a change of season and nature, we can start meat again as part of food,after cleaning our body system with a refreshment.

As we know as per Ayurveda spring is a season of rejunuvation and new beginning. Easter festival teaches us to get more connected with the nature, God and enjoy lifestyle.
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