Key words:Easter Day; Christianity; traditional Easter celebrations The Origin ofEaster Easter is the Christian commemoration of the resurrection of Jesus as a religious holiday. Over the past year the spring equinox, the first full moon of the first Sunday after Easter. Church of Christ in the...
Easter Sunday The most significant celebration in Christianity, Easter rejoices in the resurrection of Jesus Christ, signifying victory over sin and death. It is a day of great joy, marked by sunrise services, festive gatherings, and proclamations of “He is risen!” ...
As Holy week approaches, people in the faith need to understand the story and norms behind this celebration. The Holy Week will begin April 2 this year, and multiple celebrations, sacrifices, and offerings will be held leading to Easter Sunday, which falls on April 9. Holy Week is ...
It is the millstone that comes crashing down,causing a maelstrom that brings down the world structure of Babylon,(the feminine force in nature that has sold herself/prostituted/contracted herself out to her lovers),rather than the pure woman who holds the child lovingly in her arms. Remember ...
Suicide is often the desperate plea of a soul in pain.The soul can make claims that go against the body and suicide is often that. We need to forgive ourselves if we feel angry with our loved ones who end their lives in this way. Don’t feel guilty about feeling angry; that’s a ...
I’ve written in recent years about how the promise of Easter has made it my favorite holiday. But of course without Good Friday, there would have been no need for Easter. When I explore Frye’s notion of Christianity as a comic religion — that is to say, a religion whose “story ar...
The divine function of the Jews, as far as Augustine was concerned, was to exist in every country so they could everywhere give evidence of the truth of Christianity by preserving certain books in which Augustine believed he could discern oblique allusions to Jesus of Nazareth as the Jewish Mes...
initially a festival preceding the Catholic season of Lent (a period of fasting from Ash Wednesday to Easter weekend); now refers to general annual festivities, usually with a procession and extravagant costumes, and often symbolically remembering an event in the past Charismatic To do or undertake...
In any event, Easter was/is the most important holy day of the Christian tradition, and it was decided at the First Council of Nicaea (AD 325) that it should occur each year on the Sunday following the first full moon after the spring equinox. In order to forecast when exactly the holi...
it appears to me that we have reached the turning point and are on our way down. The pandemic is the catalyst for this change to a downward trend. It certainly is not the whole cause of the change. If the underlying dynamics had not been in place, the impact of the virus would likel...