Easter.Pass
Over.
Easter. This year Easter falls on April 08th.2012
Sunday.
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.
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 8th 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.
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