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Easter traditions and symbols are abundant. But what are the origins of the Easter traditions? Learn the history of Easter traditions here.
The Easter Season
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Easter is not only a holiday but a ason unto itlf. To many religious people, it marks a time of miracles and a reaffirming of faith. To tho with a more cular view of the world, it is a celebration of the end of winter, a time to look toward the warmth of the coming summer and a chance to shed the heavy clothing of the winter for the bright colors of spring.
The Date of Easter (April 16, 2008)
Goddess of the spring
Easter is a movable holiday, which is calculated as the first Sunday after the full moon that
occurs on or after the vernal equinox. If the full moon falls on a Sunday, then Easter is the following Sunday. The holiday can occur anywhere between March 22 and April 25. This year Easter is April 16, 2008.
The pagan oigins Of Easter
Long before Easter became the holiday it is today, the spring festival was celebrated by the people around the world. The celebration was originally bad on the lunar calendar. The name Easter is derived from the Saxon Eostre (which is synonymous with the name of the Phoenician Goddess of the Moon, Astartephoto), a Germanic goddess of spring and the deity who measured time.
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蛇和龙属相合不合 The Christian origins of Easter
”钱币收藏价格表班主任节活动方案For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life. God did not nd His Son into the world to condemn it, but to save it” (John 3:16-17).
As Christianity grew and spread throughout the world, it was common practice to adopt, modify, convert or take over existing non-Christian festivals. Becau Eostre was the goddess of spring and her symbolism dealt with renewal and rebirth, the Christian belief in the resurrection of Christ fit well with the themes.
** The Easter story of Jesus (photo )
登山的味道 Angels Adoring the Heart of Jesus, by Vicente Lopez Portana
On Good Friday , Jesus Christ was executed by crucifixion. His body was taken down from the cross, and buried in a cave. The tomb was guarded and an enormous stone was put over the entrance, so that no-one could steal the body.
On the following Sunday, some women visited the grave and found that the stone had been moved, and that the tomb was empty. Jesus himlf was en that day, and for days afterwards by many people. His followers realid that God had raid Jesus from the dead.
** The Easter Vigil Service (15 April 2008 )
The Easter Vigil rvice (photo) is the first Easter rvice, and takes place on the night of Holy Saturday. Holy Saturday is the Saturday after Good Friday which is often, but wrongly, called Easter Saturday.
The idea behind the rvice is for faithful Christians to wait and watch, hopeful and confident that Christ will return at midnight.
The Easter candle (photos) is lit during this rvice. The rvice traditionally begins outside the church, where minister and some worshippers gather around a fire – a charcoal brazier is common.
The rvice begins with words like the:繁衍生息的意思
Brothers and sisters in Christ, on this most holy night, in which our Lord Jesus Christ pasd over from death to life, the Church invites her members, disperd throughout the world, to gather in vigil and prayer.
After being lit outside, the candle is carried into the church, where most of the worshippers are waiting in darkness, which symbolis the darkness of Christ’s tomb.
