Articles of category "Easter (Resurrection of Jesus)"

Holidays are a part of our society and of our culture. Holidays are a time to spend with friends and family. There are holidays that that take place in the springtime, summertime, autumn, and wintertime. Most people have their favorite holidays that they can’t wait to celebrate with friends and family each and every year.

Perhaps no holiday has more importance on the Christian calendar than Easter. In the Easter holiday Christians celebrate the crucifixion of Jesus as a fulfillment of a biblical prophecy and then his rising from the dead 3 days later in fulfillment in what is often considered the most important Christian biblical prophecy. Each year Christians from all over the world converge on Jerusalem to celebrate the Easter season.

Easter 2006 falls on Sunday, April 16th. We tend to link Easter with the resurrection of Jesus Christ and there's nothing wrong with that. But like a lot of truly fun events that sprung out of our Pagan past, The Catholic Church beat the tar out of anything that veered even slightly from the teachings of the Church. So Easter, with all of its unique history and symbolism got sidetracked. Well, we don't have to worry about that HERE. I'm going to spill the beans on what Easter used to really be about!

As many know, the Easter holiday is the celebration of the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Yet many aspects of the holiday are definitely not Christian, and some might even wonder where they came from. For example, how do bunnies and eggs fit into the story of blood, sweat and tears? This brief history of Easter traditions will shed some light on this question.