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!” ...
I arrived at the monastery in the early afternoon and could hardly wait to begin all this solitude and … by late evening, I was restless and climbing walls. I had already done almost all of the contemplative things I about which I had fantasized. I had walked around the lake, smoked my...
New Year’s resolutions are fine, but if you’re like me, they won’t last beyond a couple weeks. For the past decade or more, I’ve engaged in what some call a “sacred word” for the year.As I wrote about in 2011, this spiritual practice has some grounding in ancient Christianit...
And in the year the Passover and Easter represent….”Let there be light” or “Fiat Lux!”,as they bring light to the year in the form of the yearly dawning. The Passover and Easter both represent the first part of creation or growth on the earth……do animals not create their offs...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...