Christianity-Easter.

Easter.Pass Over.
Easter. This year Easter was observed on April 24th.2011.
Easter, the most important holiday, commemorates Christ's resurrection on the third day following his crucifixion. So important is the resurrection to Christians that it has been said that every Christian worship service is a celebration of the resurrection.

For several hundred years, Easter was not called "Easter." Prior to the fourth century, Christians observed, Pascha, Christian Passover, in the spring of the year. Adapted from Jewish Passover, Pascha was a festival of redemption. As Jews, these early followers of Jesus celebrated both their liberation from slavery in Egypt, and their new liberation from the power of death itself.

As Christianity spread throughout the Roman world, however, the celebration became more and more a distinctly Christian one. But there also developed some disagreement about when and how the holiday should be observed. One of the principal reasons for organizing the council of Nicea in 325 CE was to set a firm date for the celebration.

Though the record is not complete, the church fathers were intent on making the holiday into something that those acquainted with the gods and goddesses of the Greco-Roman world be comfortable with. Thus the festival came to be known as "Easter," a name derived, some think, from "Eostre," the Mother Goddess of the Saxon people in Northern Europe; others suggest it was derived from an ancient word for spring "eastre." Without doubt some elements of pre-Christian religious practice have been incorporated into the Easter traditions.
Easter Sunday and Pass Over.
Both have to be followed.


Christmas comes but once a year.
After Christmas comes the Lent.

On the 4th of April, this year, more than a billion of Christians
will celebrate the festival of Easter.
A fraction of them observe Pass Over, a week before the Easter Sunday.

The festival of Easter is fun-filled with the hunt of the Easter Egg,
Easter bunnies and Easter Sunrise service.

Many believe that God’s endorsement of Pass Over ended with Christ’s Death.
God since then replaced it with the celebration of the Easter.
Celebration of Easter with sincerity, is rightly regarded as a
religious holiday that superseded the Old Testament Pass Over.

There is a controversy about celebrating Easter or observing Pass Over.
We are not here for anything in favour or anything against those who claim:-

Easter can not be found in Scriptures.
Easter was never instituted by God.
Easter was never sanctioned by Jesus Christ.
Easter means one week of religious prayer and plain living.


Easter means one week’s celebration and vacation at the end of a harsh winter.
It brings joy and colour in the eyes of the people to celebrate this festival.

Lent is the season of 40 day’s fasting before Easter.
Lent is more than a diet, a life involved in prayer, alms-giving and reading.
Fasting abstains from eating meat, fish, dairy items liquor wine etc.
They take a simple dry food of vegetables once a day to maintain the body.