Sun shining through green tree leaves
Easter Sunday
Happy Easter!
Today is Easter Sunday. Easter, also called Pascha, is the most important religious feast in the Christian liturgical year. It celebrates the resurrection of Jesus.. Many non-religious cultural elements have become part of the holiday, and those aspects are often celebrated by many Christians and non-Christians alike.
Easter Eggs are a popular traditional food eaten on Easter Sunday. The egg is a symbol of the Resurrection: while being dormant it contains a new life sealed within it.
Easter is termed a moveable feast because it is not fixed in relation to the civil calendar. Easter falls at some point between late March and late April each year, following the cycle of the moon. After several centuries of disagreement, all churches accepted the computation of the Alexandrian Church that Easter is the first Sunday after the first fourteenth day of the moon (the Paschal Full Moon) that is on or after the ecclesiastical vernal equinox.
Easter also refers to the season called Eastertide or the Easter Season, which lasts for the fifty days until Pentecost. So don't stop eating chocolate after one day and think the party's over - you've got over 5 weeks of celebration to go!
David, Happy Easter, we got about 1 hour to go to Easter Sunday. Hope all is well, and this is really nice photo. Thanks for sharing all the Easter details. Thanks again, Anna :)
ReplyDeleteHi Anna,
ReplyDeleteHappy Easter! All is well here. I was wondering whether you would get this post before Easter started, seems you did! :) I'm glad you like the Easter details too, I found them quite interesting. Where the easter eggs came from and all that.....
Happy Easter,
David
happy easter to you!
ReplyDeleteHi dailyphotographer,
ReplyDeleteHappy Easter! I hope you will enjoy the next few weeks of the Easter Season, as I will be. :)
Cheers,
David