EASTER FESTIVAL

Easter festival commemorates the resurrection of Jesus from the dead and is celebrated across the world. It begins from the Lent and ends with Holy Week, which includes Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and finally Easter Sunday. In Latin Easter is known as Pascha. It is celebrated annually but the date of the festival is not fixed, it varies every year. This year its on today, 4th April.

The festival is celebrated on the Sunday following the first full moon, the Paschal full moon, after the vernal equinox. Easter festival is celebrated by most Christians as they believe in the resurrection of Jesus. According to the Bible, the event is said to have occurred three days after Jesus was crucified by the Romans and died around 30-33 A.D.
THE MEANING OF EASTER

It is said that the meaning of Easter is Jesus Christ’s victory over death. The festival celebrates the resurrection of Jesus and is considered as a rebirth of Christianity. People believe that Jesus, the son of God, died for everyone’s wrong-doings and then came back to life three days later to defeat death and evil.

The word Easter comes from the Anglo Saxon month ‘Eostremonath’ which means the time of year we now say April when Christian festival was held. Do you know that the month to be named after a German goddess ‘Eostre’ or ‘Ostara’? It is said that the only reference to this name is from the early historian Bede in 725 A.D.

Palm Sunday is the day when Jesus entered Jerusalem and was celebrated. Maundy Thursday is the “Last Supper” where Jesus met with his disciples to observe Passover and Good Friday when Jesus would be crucified on the cross.

Symbols of Easter celebration

Easter eggs and Easter Bunny are both fertility symbols, holdovers from the feast of Eostara. Other Symbols include the pagan joy in the rising sun of spring, which coincides with Christians’s joy in the rising Son of God, candles in the churches were lightened which corresponds to the pagan of bonfires. Even on this day the symbol of the cross and images of Jesus Christ, through paintings or statues are remembered.

Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, Easter Festival is celebrated at homes. Celebrations this year have gone online.
HAPPY EASTER