Whats the significant purpose of Easter?
Easter is an important annual religious feast in the Christian liturgical year. In Christian belief, Jesus was resurrected from the dead three days after his crucifixion. Many Christian denominations celebrate this resurrection on Easter Day or Easter Sunday (also Resurrection Day or Resurrection Sunday), two days after Good Friday. The chronology of his death and resurrection is variously interperated to be between 26 and 36 AD.~~~~Origin of the Word Easter: What does it mean today? More important than the question of how the word Easter originated is what it means to us today. When you think of the word Easter, what do you see? If you see bunnies and baskets of chocolate eggs, you are missing out on the richness of this day, considered by many Christians to be even more significant than Christmas. Easter, to Christians, is actually Resurrection Day – the anniversary of the day Jesus rose in triumph from the grave, claiming victory over death. Easter also refers to the season of the c
My personal purpose of Easter is to celebrate the Resurrection of my Lord Jesus Christ. And my Bible tells how it happened. Mark 16 The Resurrection 1When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices so that they might go to anoint Jesus’ body. 2Very early on the first day of the week, just after sunrise, they were on their way to the tomb 3and they asked each other, “Who will roll the stone away from the entrance of the tomb?” 4But when they looked up, they saw that the stone, which was very large, had been rolled away. 5As they entered the tomb, they saw a young man dressed in a white robe sitting on the right side, and they were alarmed. 6″Don’t be alarmed,” he said. “You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid him. 7But go, tell his disciples and Peter, ‘He is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him, just as he told you.’ ” 8Trembling and bewildered
The reason the Christian celebration shifts on the calendar is that it is determined in respect to the Vernal Equinox (date when night and day are of equal duration). Because of this linkage to the cycles of the Sun and Moon, Easter has always been a rite of Spring. The word Lent is from the Anglo-Saxon word lengten, which means spring Easter falls on the first Sunday following the first ecclesiastical full moon that occurs on or after the day of the vernal equinox; this particular ecclesiastical full moon is the 14th day of a tabular lunation (new moon); and the vernal equinox is fixed as March 21. If the full moon is on a Sunday, Easter is the Sunday after. This is because it would otherwise coincide with the Jewish Passover. Celebrates Christ’s resurrection. resulting in that Easter can never occur before March 22 or later than April 25. The date of Easter is primarily used for liturgical purposes. Up to the eighth century there was no uniform method for determining the date of East
It is sad to see some Christians being mislead by neo-pagan mythology about Easter. The word Easter is Anglo-Saxon and, according to Bede (and no one else), it comes from the word Eostur-monath meaning April. Although Bede says this month was named much earlier after a goddess, that goddess is otherwise completely unknown, there are no stories or myths about her, no customs associated with her, no mentions at all in any Anglo-Saxon writings. Modern scholars reckon Bede probably made her up. The stories about her were made up recently. Easter came about when early Christians wanted to celebrate the Resurrection of Christ. The biblical accounts place the resurrection during the Jewish Passover which is when is was originally celebrated. The Jewish lunar calendar is why it is a movable feast, though the dates have drifted apart somewhat over the 1800 years or more since Easter started. The Passover connection is why, in most languages, Easter is name after the Passover – Paques, Pascha, P
