Easter festival commemorated Jesus Christ’s resurrection. Christians believe that Jesus was resurrected from the dead three days after his crucifixion and celebrate this resurrection on Easter Day or Easter Sunday , two days after Good Friday which precedes Easter Sunday (“Pascha”) and commemorates the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ and his death at Golgotha.
Easter is a time of rebirth and resurrection. It was first celebrated by the pagans around the vernal equinox, welcoming spring. Easter is a moveable dates of the festival, in that it is not fall on a fixed date in the civil calendar. Easter falls at some point between late March to late April, following the cycle of the moon. All churches now accepted the computation of the Alexandrian Church (the Coptic Church) that Easter is the first Sunday after the Pascha Full Moon, which is the first moon whose 14th day is on or after March 21 or vernal equinox (the night and day are approximately equally long).
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Traditions associated with the festival survive in the Easter rabbit, a symbol of fertility, new life and the rebirth that occurs during the spring season. And also associated in colored easter eggs, originally painted with bright colors to represent the sunlight of spring, used in Easter-egg rolling contests or given as gifts and used eggs to symbolize the rebirth of Christ. German settlers in America are said to have brought over the tradition of a bunny named “Oschter Haws” who would visit houses on Easter eve, leaving colored eggs for children.
Another Easter tradition is the eating of Hot Cross Buns (a sweet spiced bun made with currants or raisins and leavened with yeast). These cakes were marked by the Saxons to honor Eastre, the fertility goddess. The crosses on the buns are said to represent the moon’s quarters, while Christians see the cross as a reference to the crucifixtion.
Many cultural elements, such as the Easter Bunny, have become part of the holiday’s modern celebrations, and those aspects are often celebrated by many Christians and non-Christians alike.
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Easter SMS Collection, Easter Famous Quotes, Easter Sayings on Easter Day 🙂
“Happy Easter with All Best Wishes to u.”
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“Once more to new creation Awake,
and death gainsay,
For death is swallowed up of life,
And Christ is risen today! ”
George Newell Lovejoy
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“Let the resurrection joy lift us from loneliness and weakness and despair to strength and beauty and happiness.”
Floyd W. Tomkins
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“The story of Easter is the story of God’s wonderful window of divine surprise. ”
Carl Knudsen
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The Easter feeling does not end,
it signals a new beggining of nature spring
and brand new life of friendship.
Happy Easter to My Best Friend!
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The budding trees, the new flowers,
and birds that sweetly sing,
whisper to me that it’s Easter.
Here is wishing a warmth for your soul
on Easter and always! Happy Easter
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Wishing U a Very “HAPPY EASTER”
Wid Luv And Best Wishes..
May That EASTER Day Brings
LOT of Happiness And JOYS in ur LIFE.
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“The cross of Christ
shows us that God’s love
is of deepest descent…
universal distribution and
of eternal duration.”
Dr. Fred Barlow
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“The Lord came to earth
with a life to give,
so each one of us
may continue to live.
Happy Easter!”
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“Easter is a promise
God renews to us in each spring.
May the promise of Easter
fill your heart with peace and joy!
Happy Easter!”
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“May Lord bless you on
this auspicious day of Easter,
and May it be a new beginning
of greater prosperity,
success and happiness.
Wish you a Happy Easter”
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“The resurrection gives my life meaning and direction and the opportunity to start over no matter what my circumstances.”
Robert Flatt
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“Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won’t stay there. ”
Clarence W. Hall
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“The joyful news that He is risen does not change the contemporary world. Still before us lie work,
discipline, sacrifice. But the fact of Easter gives us the spiritual power to do the work, accept the discipline,
and make the sacrifice. ”
Henry Knox Sherrill
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“Easter is the demonstration of God that life is essentially spiritual and timeless. ”
Charles M. Crowe
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“Tomb, thou shalt not hold Him longer;
Death is strong, but Life is stronger;
Stronger than the dark, the light;
Stronger than the wrong, the right.”
Phillips Brooks, “An Easter Carol”
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“Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his
resurrection. Let him say not merely, “Christ is risen,” but “I shall rise.”
Phillips Brooks
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“On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer.”
Douglas Horton
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“Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life.”
S.D. Gordon
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“Easter tells us that life is to be interpreted not simply in terms of things but in terms of ideals.”
Charles M. Crowe
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“God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.”
Robert South, Sermons
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“Celestial spirit that doth roll
The heart’s sepulchral stone away,
Be this our resurrection day,
The singing Easter of the soul –
O gentle Master of the Wise,
Teach us to say: “I will arise.”
Richard Le Gallienne
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“Easter is not a time for groping through dusty, musty tomes or tombs to disprove spontaneous generation or even to prove life eternal. It is a day to fan the ashes of dead hope, a day to banish doubts and seek the slopes where the sun is rising, to revel in the faith which transports us out of ourselves and the dead past into the vast and inviting unknown. ”
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“The stars shall fade away, the sun himself
Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years;
But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth,
Unhurt amid the war of elements,
The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds. ”
Joseph Addison
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“But from this earth, this grave, this dust,
My God shall raise me up, I trust. ”
Walter Raleigh
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“He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity. ”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“For I remember it is Easter morn,
And life and love and peace are all new born. ”
Alice Freeman Palmer
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“Thou art the Sun of other days.
They shine by giving back the rays.”
John Keble
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“We live and die; Christ died and lived! ”
John Stott
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“Those have a short Lent, who owe money to be paid at Easter.”
Benjamin Franklin
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“Angels, roll the rock away;
Death, yield up thy mighty prey:
See, He rises from the tomb,
Glowing with immortal bloom.”
Thomas Scott, “Easter Angels”
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“Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood.”
Wallace Stevens, 1916
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“Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-
time.”Martin Luther
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“I think of the garden after the rain;
And hope to my heart comes singing,
At morn the cherry-blooms will be white,
And the Easter bells be ringing!”
Edna Dean Proctor, “Easter Bells”
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“Well pleaseth me the sweet time of Easter
That maketh the leaf and the flower come out.”
Bertran de Born
Easter is a movable feast in christianity which means it is not fixed to a particular day of the calendar year. Normally, Western Easter dates occur on the first Sunday after the first full moon which is on or after March 21 ( vernal equinox). So Easter fall at some date between late March to early May each year.
