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the celebration of bath and meal. Even here, this relationship does not suddenly appear, but represents developments in ritual narrative that must have begun at the very inception of the Christian message. Jesus of Nazareth was crucified during Pesach-Mazzot, an event that a new covenant people of Jews and Gentiles both saw as definitive and defining. Ex 12 is thus one of the few reliable guides for tracing the synergism among ritual, text, and kerygma before the Council of Nicaea.

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following the full moon. The recommended World Council of Churches changes would have sidestepped the calendar issues and eliminated the difference in date between the Eastern and Western churches. The reform was proposed for implementation starting in 2001, and despite repeated calls for reform, it was not ultimately adopted by any member body.

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Pope Paul V., about 1610, which reads thus: 'Bless, O Lord! we beseech thee, this thy creature of eggs, that it may become a wholesome sustenance to thy faithful servants, eating it in thankfulness to thee on account of the resurrection of the Lord.' Thus the custom has come down from ages lost in antiquity.

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WHEREAS, There is a growing tendency in Protestant Churches, and to some extent in our own, to observe days and ceremonies, as Christmas and Easter, that are without divine authority; we urge our people to abstain from all such customs as are popish in their origin and injurious as lending sacredness

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Only in a handful of places do Easter celebrants alter their own arrangements to take account of their neighbours. Finland's Orthodox Christians mark Easter on the Western date. And on the Greek island of Syros, a Papist stronghold, Catholics and Orthodox alike march to Orthodox time. The spectacular

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Long before this controversy, Ex 12 as a story of origins and its ritual expression had been firmly fixed in the Christian imagination. Though before the final decades of the 2nd century only accessible as an exegetical tradition, already in the Pauline letters the Exodus saga is deeply involved with

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In addition, the lunar tables of the Julian calendar are currently five days behind those of the Gregorian calendar. Therefore, the Julian computation of the Paschal full moon is a full five days later than the astronomical full moon. The result of this combination of solar and lunar discrepancies is

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declares that God has given believers "a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead". Christian theology holds that, through faith in the working of God, those who follow Jesus are spiritually resurrected with him so that they may walk in a new way of life and

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Those who adhere to the Regulative Principle by singing exclusively the psalms, refusing to use musical instruments, and rejecting "Christmas", "Easter" and the rest, are often accused of causing disunity among the people of God. The truth is the opposite. The right way to move towards more unity is

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Just so, on that first Easter morning, Jesus came to life and walked out of the tomb, and left it, as it were, an empty shell. Just so, too, when the Christian dies, the body is left in the grave, an empty shell, but the soul takes wings and flies away to be with God. Thus you see that though an egg

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Christians use the same rule but base their 21 March according to the Julian calendar. Because of the thirteen-day difference between the calendars from 1900 through 2099, 21 March Julian corresponds to 3 April in the Gregorian calendar (during the 20th and 21st centuries). Consequently, the date of

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On Easter, the color white symbolizes purity, grace, and, ultimately, the resurrection of Jesus Christ, which is the joyful culmination of the Easter season. On this holiday, white Easter lilies are displayed in churches and homes, symbolizing the purity of Christ and representing a trumpet sharing

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Easter eggs are used as a Christian symbol to represent the empty tomb. The outside of the egg looks dead but inside there is new life, which is going to break out. The Easter egg is a reminder that Jesus will rise from His tomb and bring new life. Eastern Orthodox Christians dye boiled eggs red to

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which would have replaced the present divergent practices of calculating Easter with modern scientific knowledge taking into account actual astronomical instances of the spring equinox and full moon based on the meridian of Jerusalem, while also following the tradition of Easter being on the Sunday

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Early Christians in Britain and Ireland also used an 84-year cycle. From the 5th century onward this cycle set its equinox to 25 March and fixed Easter to the Sunday falling in the 14th to the 20th of the lunar month inclusive. This 84-year cycle was replaced by the Alexandrian method in the course

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When the custom was carried over into Christian practice the Easter eggs were usually sent to the priests to be blessed and sprinkled with holy water. In later times the coloring and decorating of eggs was introduced, and in a royal roll of the time of Edward I., which is preserved in the Tower of

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Because this Victorian cycle differed from the unmodified Alexandrian cycle in the dates of some of the Paschal full moons, and because it tried to respect the Roman custom of fixing Easter to the Sunday in the week of the 16th to the 22nd of the lunar month (rather than the 15th to the 21st as at

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The early Christians of Mesopotamia had the custom of dyeing and decorating eggs at Easter. They were stained red, in memory of the blood of Christ, shed at His crucifixion. The Church adopted the custom, and regarded the eggs as the emblem of the resurrection, as is evinced by the benediction of

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Orthros of Holy Pascha, Stichera: "Today the sacred Pascha is revealed to us. The new and holy Pascha, the mystical Pascha. The all-venerable Pascha. The Pascha which is Christ the Redeemer. The spotless Pascha. The great Pascha. The Pascha of the faithful. The Pascha which has opened unto us the

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to change the date of Easter to be the first Sunday after the second Saturday in April (or, in other words, the Sunday in the period from 9 to 15 April). However, the legislation has not been implemented, although it remains on the Statute book and could be implemented, subject to approval by the

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The church is darkened, then the priest lights a candle at midnight, representing the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Altar servers light additional candles, with a procession which moves three times around the church to represent the three days in the tomb. The service continues early into Sunday

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In November 2022, the Patriarch of Constantinople said that conversations between the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Churches had begun to determine a common date for the celebration of Easter. The agreement is expected to be reached for the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea in

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Eusebius reports that Dionysius, Bishop of Alexandria, proposed an 8-year Easter cycle, and quotes a letter from Anatolius, Bishop of Laodicea, that refers to a 19-year cycle. An 8-year cycle has been found inscribed on a statue unearthed in Rome in the 17th century, and since dated to the 3rd

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Canons and sermons condemning the custom of computing Easter's date based on the Jewish calendar indicate that this custom (called "protopaschite" by historians) did not die out at once, but persisted for a time after the Council of Nicaea. In any case, in the years following the council, the

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As the Gospels assert that both the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus occurred during the week of Passover, the first Christians timed the observance of the annual celebration of the resurrection in relation to Passover. Direct evidence for a more fully formed Christian festival of Pascha

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and his successors do not include any relevant provision, but letters of individuals present at the Council mention a decision prohibiting Quartodecimanism and requiring that all Christians adopt a common method to independently determine Paschal observance following the churches of Rome and

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In the 20th and 21st centuries, some individuals and institutions have propounded changing the method of calculating the date for Easter, the most prominent proposal being the Sunday after the second Saturday in April. Despite having some support, proposals to reform the date have not been

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It is not known how long the Nisan 14 practice continued. But both those who followed the Nisan 14 custom, and those who set Easter to the following Sunday, had in common the custom of consulting their Jewish neighbors to learn when the month of Nisan would fall, and setting their festival

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accordingly. By the later 3rd century, however, some Christians began to express dissatisfaction with the custom of relying on the Jewish community to determine the date of Easter. The chief complaint was that the Jewish communities sometimes erred in setting Passover to fall before the

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seems to be as dead as a stone, yet it really has life in it; and also it is like Christ's dead body, which was raised to life again. This is the reason we use eggs on Easter. (In olden times they used to color the eggs red, so as to show the kind of death by which Christ died, – a

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Because of this dissatisfaction with reliance on the Jewish calendar, some Christians began to experiment with independent computations. Others, however, believed that the customary practice of consulting Jews should continue, even if the Jewish computations were in error.

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So what preparations do most Christians and non-Christians make? Shopping for new clothing often signifies the belief that Spring has arrived, and it is a time of renewal. Preparations for the Easter Egg Hunts and the Easter Ham for the Sunday dinner are high on the list

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and others following him maintained that the bishops assembled at Nicaea had promulgated the celebration of Easter on the first Sunday after the first full moon on or after the vernal equinox and that they had adopted the use of the 19-year lunar cycle, better known as

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was Quartodeciman, while the Roman and Alexandrian churches continued the fast until the Sunday following (the Sunday of Unleavened Bread), wishing to associate Easter with Sunday. Neither Polycarp nor Anicetus persuaded the other, but they did not consider the matter

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Alexandria), by providing alternative "Latin" and "Greek" dates in some years, occasional differences in the date of Easter as fixed by Alexandrian rules continued. The Alexandrian rules were adopted in the West following the tables of Dionysius Exiguus in 525.

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In some traditions, the children put out their empty baskets for the Easter Bunny to fill while they sleep. They wake to find their baskets filled with candy eggs and other treats. A custom originating in Germany, the Easter Bunny is a popular legendary

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The practices are usually interpreted in terms of baptism at the pasch (Easter), for which compare Tertullian, but the text does not specify this season, only that it was done on Sunday, and the instructions may apply to whenever the baptism was to be

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Red eggs are given to Orthodox Christians after the Easter Liturgy. They crack their eggs against each other's. The cracking of the eggs symbolizes a wish to break away from the bonds of sin and misery and enter the new life issuing from Christ's

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Easter is the central celebration of the Christian liturgical year. It is the oldest and most important Christian feast, celebrating the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. The date of Easter determines the dates of all movable feasts except those of

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Easter celebrates Jesus' supernatural resurrection from the dead, which is one of the chief tenets of the Christian faith. Paul writes that, for those who trust in Jesus's death and resurrection, "death is swallowed up in victory". The

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For while it is from Ephesus that Paul writes, "Christ our Pascha has been sacrificed for us", Ephesian Christians were not likely the first to hear that Ex 12 did not speak about the rituals of Pesach, but the death of Jesus of

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of the Moon, and has been adopted by almost all Western Christians and by Western countries which celebrate national holidays at Easter. For the British Empire and colonies, a determination of the date of Easter Sunday using

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In parts of Europe, the eggs were dyed red and were then cracked together when people exchanged Easter greetings. Many congregations today continue to have Easter egg hunts for the children after the services on Easter

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and all other bishops of Asia for their Quartodecimanism. According to Eusebius, a number of synods were convened to deal with the controversy, which he regarded as all ruling in support of Easter on Sunday. Polycrates

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The second century equivalent of easter and the paschal Triduum was called by both Greek and Latin writers "Pascha (πάσχα)", a Greek transliteration of the Aramaic form of the Hebrew פֶּסַח, the Passover feast of Ex.

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Holy Week. The last week in LENT. It begins on PALM SUNDAY; the fourth day is called SPY WEDNESDAY; the fifth is MAUNDY THURSDAY or HOLY THURSDAY; the sixth is Good Friday; and the last 'Holy Saturday', or the 'Great

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to move to exclusively Scriptural worship. Each departure from the worship instituted in Scripture creates a new division among the people of God. Returning to Scripture alone to guide worship is the only remedy.

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The Easter Lily is symbolic of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Churches of all denominations, large and small, are filled with floral arrangements of these white flowers with their trumpet-like shape on Easter

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The egg is an ancient symbol of new life and rebirth. In Christianity it became associated with Jesus's crucifixion and resurrection. The custom of the Easter egg originated in the early Christian community of

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Easter is the third Sunday in the paschal lunar month, or, in other words, the Sunday after the paschal lunar month's 14th day. The 14th of the paschal lunar month is designated by convention as the

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In Western Christianity, using the Gregorian calendar, Easter always falls on a Sunday between 22 March and 25 April, within about seven days after the astronomical full moon. The preceding Friday,

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with Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday, concluding with Easter Day and Easter Monday. Each day has a special significance. In Italy, both Easter Sunday and Easter Monday

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enjoined the keeping of this or any other festival. Although he describes the details of the Easter celebration as deriving from local custom, he insists the feast itself is universally observed.

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to rites that come from paganism; that ministers keep before the minds of the people that only institutions that are Scriptural and of Divine appointment should be used in the worship of God.

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computational system that was worked out by the church of Alexandria came to be normative. The Alexandrian system, however, was not immediately adopted throughout Christian Europe. Following

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Holy Week, or Passion Week, the week which immediately precedes Easter, and is devoted especially to commemorating the passion of our Lord. The Days more especially solemnized during it are

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While martyrs' days (usually the individual dates of martyrdom) were celebrated on fixed dates in the local solar calendar, the date of Easter was fixed by means of the local Jewish

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Puritans mandated other purifications of what they considered corrupt English practices. They refused to celebrate Christmas or Easter because the Bible did not mention either one.

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The tradition of Easter eggs dates back to early Christians in Mesopotamia. The Easter egg is a reminder that Jesus rose from the grave, promising an eternal life for believers.

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The precise date of Easter has at times been a matter of contention. By the later 2nd century, it was widely accepted that the celebration of the holiday was a practice of the

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public commemorations, involving flower-strewn funeral biers on Good Friday and fireworks on Saturday night, bring the islanders together, rather than highlighting division.

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Orthodox, Catholic, and all Reformed churches in the Middle East celebrate Easter according to the Eastern calendar, calling this holy day "Resurrection Sunday", not Easter.

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time; Good Friday and Easter Monday are public holidays across all states and territories. The Saturday before Easter is a public holiday in every Australian state except

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on this day and for the rest of Eastertide. Additional customs that have become associated with Easter and are observed by both Christians and some non-Christians include

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Easter Day, also known as Resurrection Sunday, marks the high point of the Christian year. It is the day that we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.

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nations, Easter Sunday is rarely a public holiday, as is the case for celebrations which fall on a Sunday. In the United Kingdom, both Good Friday and Easter Monday are

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added periodically to bring the lunar cycle into line with the solar cycle. In each solar year (1 January to 31 December inclusive), the lunar month beginning with an

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Orthodox Easter varies between 4 April and 8 May in the Gregorian calendar. Orthodox Easter is usually several days or more than a month later than Western Easter.

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Apostolic Canon 7: "If any bishop, presbyter, or deacon shall celebrate the holy day of Easter before the vernal equinox with the Jews, let him be deposed."

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and Easter Monday as public holidays. Depending on the country, retail stores, shopping malls and restaurants may be closed on the Friday, Monday or Sunday.

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celebrated by Jesus and his disciples. The early Christians, too, would have celebrated this meal to commemorate Jesus's death and subsequent resurrection.

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In the liturgies of the Three Days, the service for Maundy Thursday includes both, telling the story of Jesus' last supper and enacting the footwashing.

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is a natural astronomical phenomenon, which can fall on 19, 20 or 21 March, while the ecclesiastical date is fixed by convention on 21 March.

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of the 7th and 8th centuries. Churches in western continental Europe used a late Roman method until the late 8th century during the reign of

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is to substitute decorated chocolate, or plastic eggs filled with candy such as jellybeans; as many people give up candy (sweets) as their

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adopted the Gregorian calendar while most of Europe used the Julian calendar, the date on which Easter is celebrated has again differed.

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Jewish Passover is on Nisan 15 of its calendar. It commences at sunset preceding the date indicated (as does Easter by some traditions).

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will give the lawful Easter." However, this does not precisely reflect the ecclesiastical rules. The full moon referred to (called the

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which follows an ancient liturgy involving symbols of light, candles and water and numerous readings form the Old and New Testament.

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and giving baskets of candy. Historically, foxes, cranes and storks were also sometimes named as the mystical creatures. Since the

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The original form of this calendar would have determined Easter using precise astronomical calculations based on the meridian of

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The congregation lighting their candles from the new flame, just as the priest has retrieved it from the altar. The picture is

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which begins Lazarus Saturday officially brings Great Lent to a close, although the fast continues through the following week.

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and other named days and day ranges around Lent and Easter in Western Christianity, with the fasting days of Lent numbered

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The word "Easter" comes from the Anglo-Saxon spring festival called Eostre. Easter replaced the pagan festival of Eostre.

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for "Three Days"). Many churches begin celebrating Easter late in the evening of Holy Saturday at a service called the

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falling in the 29-day period from 8 March to 5 April inclusive is designated as the paschal lunar month for that year.

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calendars (both of which follow the cycle of the sun and the seasons). Instead, the date for Easter is determined on a

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during the Last Supper he prepared himself and his disciples for his death. He identified the bread and cup of wine as

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and the subsequent execution of Christ on the evening of Nisan 14 (as they calculate the dates derived from the lunar

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are held in many American cities, though not sponsored by any government, involving festive strolling processions.

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in remembrance of the biblical narrative in the Gospels, or other places in the open where the sunrise is visible.

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considered Sundays, resulting in a first and a second Easter Sunday, after which the week continues to a Tuesday.

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Daniels, Bruce Colin (1995). Puritans at Play: Leisure and Recreation in Colonial New England. Macmillan, p. 89,

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implemented. An Orthodox congress of Eastern Orthodox bishops, which included representatives mostly from the

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Gregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius the Great, Julius Africanus, Anatolius and Minor Writers, Methodius, Arnobius

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have a similar emphasis on Easter in their calendars, and many of their liturgical customs are very similar.

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The cross is draped in white on Easter Sunday, representing the resurrection of Christ and that He was "...

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M. Milankovitch, "Das Ende des julianischen Kalenders und der neue Kalender der orientalischen Kirchen",

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Easter eggs are blessed by a priest both in families' baskets together with other foods forbidden during

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morning, with a feast to end the fasting. An additional service is held later that day on Easter Sunday.

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and lasts for 40 continuous days (including Sundays). Great Lent ends on a Friday, and the next day is

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confirms these complaints, for it indicates that the Jews of some eastern Mediterranean city (possibly

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locations in the United Kingdom. On Easter Monday, the President of the United States holds an annual

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Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday and Good Friday respectively commemorate Jesus's entry in Jerusalem, the

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Roark, James; Johnson, Michael; Cohen, Patricia; Stage, Sarah; Lawson, Alan; Hartmann, Susan (2011).

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saw traditional feasts of the established Anglican Church, such as All Saints' Day and Easter, as

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cycles. The lunar year consists of 30-day and 29-day lunar months, generally alternating, with an

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In the United States, which is a secular country, Easter is not designated as a federal holiday.

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at XII calends April ". This definition can be traced at least back to chapters 6 & 59 of

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Calendar and Community: A History of the Jewish Calendar Second Century BCE – Tenth Century CE

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The Easter festival is kept in many different ways among Western Christians. The traditional,

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of "Christ is risen!" is no longer exchanged among the faithful after the Apodosis of Pascha.

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night. At the stroke of midnight the Paschal celebration itself begins, consisting of Paschal

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If the holiday falls during the weekend, the government may observe it on a different day.

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The Orthodox Church : an introduction to its history, doctrine, and spiritual culture

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provides the only documentary source for the etymology of the word, in his eighth-century

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because the Bible does not mention them. Conservative Reformed denominations such as the

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Good Friday and Saturday as well as Easter Sunday and Monday are traditionally observed

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Christians use a different computation for the date of Easter from the Western churches.

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Baptism in the Early Church: History, Theology, and Liturgy in the First Five Centuries

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constitute a commandment to remember the death of Christ, though not the resurrection.

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Many government offices and some private businesses close on annual federal holidays.

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The term "Resurrection Sunday" is used particularly by Christian communities in the

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We associate the lily with Easter, as pre-eminently the symbol of the Resurrection.

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In most European languages Easter is called by some variant of the late Latin word

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Welcome to the Church Year: An Introduction to the Seasons of the Episcopal Church

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succinctly wrote: "The Sunday following the full Moon which falls on or after the

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Liturgical Commission Of The Sisters Of The Order Of St Basil The Great (1970).

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with its Annexe. This was designed to match exactly the Gregorian calculation.

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This article is about the Christian and cultural festival. For other uses, see

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A Sermon of Christ Crucified, Preached at Paules Crosse the Fridaie Before ...

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Cheslyn Jones, Geoffrey Wainwright, Edward Yarnold, and Paul Bradshaw, Eds.,

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Cheslyn Jones, Geoffrey Wainwright, Edward Yarnold, and Paul Bradshaw, Eds.,

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The term "Quartodeciman" refers to the practice of ending the Lenten fast on

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London, there is an entry of 18d. for 400 eggs, to be used for Easter gifts.

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in American culture. Many children around the world follow the tradition of

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A priest blessing baskets with Easter eggs and other foods forbidden during

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A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church

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My Faith, My Life, Revised Edition: A Teen's Guide to the Episcopal Church

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is additionally a conditional public holiday in Tasmania, varying between

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A priest distributing blessed Easter eggs after blessing the Soyuz rocket

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maintain a similar view, observing a yearly commemorative service of the

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The Gregorian calculation of Easter was based on a method devised by the

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Manufacturing their first Easter egg in 1875, British chocolate company

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In Latin and Greek, the Christian celebration was, and still is, called

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Uro, Risto; Day, Juliette; DeMaris, Richard E.; Roitto, Rikard (2019).

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A Careful and Free Inquiry into the True Nature and Tendency of the ...

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Traditional names for the feast in English are "Easter Day", as in the

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Easter Sunday. The day before Easter is properly called Holy Saturday.

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and others, who reminded Victor of the tolerant precedent of Anicetus.

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Julian Easter and associated festivals in Gregorian calendar 1583–4099

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St. John Chrysostom, "Against those who keep the first Passover", in

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is used for the celebration; in English, the analogous word is Pasch.

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recorded that some Quartodecimans were deprived of their churches by

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Marshmallow rabbits, candy eggs and other treats in an Easter basket

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there was among the Egyptians an ancient science for the computation

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convened the Council in 325. The Canons of the Council preserved by

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Services continue on Easter Sunday and in a number of countries on

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The week beginning with Easter Sunday is called Easter Week or the

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Quartodecimanism seems to have lingered into the 4th century, when

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were the first to hear Exodus 12 interpreted as speaking about the

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are the basis of the term Pascha), by its origin (according to the

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countries and elsewhere. A batik-like decorating process known as

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in the universal calendar which do not normally fall on a Sunday.

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Saint Alphonsus: Capuchins, Closures, and Continuity (1956–2011)

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Understanding the American Promise: A History, Volume I: To 1877

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is one of that country's major holidays. Easter in Italy enters

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likewise reject the celebration of Easter as a violation of the

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In most branches of Western Christianity, Easter is preceded by

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Annunciation of the Virgin Mary / Annunciation of the Theotokos

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to "the vernal equinox, which was fixed by the fathers of the

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Astronomical Easter is the first Sunday after the astronomical

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Finland's Orthodox Christians mark Easter on the Western date.

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Saint John Chrysostom: Discourses against Judaizing Christians

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The Book of the Year: A Brief History of Our Seasonal Holidays

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Table of the dates of Easter by Gregorian and Julian calendars

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Genung, Charles Harvey (1904). "The Reform of the Calendar".

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gates of Paradise. The Pascha which sanctifies all faithful."

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represent the blood of Christ shed for the sins of the world.

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produces intricate, brilliantly colored eggs. The celebrated

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In some traditions, Easter services typically begin with the

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either, parting in peace and leaving the question unsettled.

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Holidays, observances, and celebrations in the United States

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divergence in the date of Easter in most years (see table).

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Sunrise Service At Abington Cemetery Is An Easter Tradition

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observation of Easter, as practised among Roman Catholics,

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as measured at the meridian of Jerusalem according to this

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in many countries with predominantly Christian traditions.

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The English term is derived from the Saxon spring festival

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Day of Remembrance and Victory over Nazism in World War II

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Siemaszkiewicz, Wojciech; Deyrup, Marta Mestrovic (2013).

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Three Day Feast: Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter

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and is timed so that it ends a little before midnight on

1251:(On the Measurement of Easter), Rome retired the earlier 988:

attributes the observance of Easter by the church to the

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Julian and Gregorian Easter for any year plus other info

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Public holidays in Scandinavian countries, for example;

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