Easter is the Sunday that celebrates the resurrection of Christ, and is
one of the most holy days in the calendar of Christian churches. The
Easter message is one of hope and victory over death, for it recalls
that Christ rose from the dead on the third day after his crucifixion.
Easter symbolizes the love of God and the promise that man's soul is
immortal.
In many languages, the name for Easter comes from the Hebrew word
"pesah", or passover; in fact, Easter was first associated with the
Hebrew festival of the Passover, which falls in the spring. Easter was
celebrated at different times by the early Christian churches until 325
A.D., when the Council of Nicaea fixed the day as the first Sunday after
the first full moon after March 21. This always places Easter sometime
between March 22 and April 25. It is believed that the council
probably set the date of Easter to fall near the time of a full moon so
that pilgrims journeying to worship a shrine might have moonlight to
help them find their way.
Many of the current Easter customs probably had their beginnings in the
pagan celebrations of the rebirth of the earth in the spring. The
English word for Easter is from the name of a Teutonic goddess of spring
or the dawn. The Easter egg is a symbol of new life. People dress in
new clothes and wear flowers on Easter Sunday because the winter has
come to an end, and the earth seems alive again.
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