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Easter: Resurrection Celebration Guide

Easter is a Christian festival and holiday celebrating Jesus Christ's resurrection from death. It is based on Jesus being crucified by Romans around 30 AD and resurrecting on the third day after burial, according to the New Testament. Easter concludes the Lenten season of fasting and penance and is preceded by Holy Week and Easter Triduum. The date of Easter is movable and based on the first Sunday following the full moon after the northern spring equinox. Easter traditions include sunrise services, decorating with lilies, and egg decorating to symbolize rebirth.

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Easter: Resurrection Celebration Guide

Easter is a Christian festival and holiday celebrating Jesus Christ's resurrection from death. It is based on Jesus being crucified by Romans around 30 AD and resurrecting on the third day after burial, according to the New Testament. Easter concludes the Lenten season of fasting and penance and is preceded by Holy Week and Easter Triduum. The date of Easter is movable and based on the first Sunday following the full moon after the northern spring equinox. Easter traditions include sunrise services, decorating with lilies, and egg decorating to symbolize rebirth.

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Easter,[nb 1] also called Pascha (Greek, Latin)[nb 2] or Resurrection Sunday,[3][4] is a festival

and holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, described in the New Testament as
having occurred on the third day of his burial after his crucifixion by the Romans at Calvary c. 30
AD.[5][6] It is the culmination of the Passion of Jesus, preceded by Lent (or Great Lent), a forty-day
period of fasting, prayer, and penance.

Most Christians refer to the week before Easter as "Holy Week"—it contains the days of the Easter
Triduum, includingMaundy Thursday, commemorating the Maundy and Last Supper,[7][8] as well
as Good Friday, commemorating thecrucifixion and death of Jesus.[9] In Western
Christianity, Eastertide, or the Easter Season, begins on Easter Sunday and lasts seven weeks,
ending with the coming of the fiftieth day, Pentecost Sunday. In Eastern Christianity, the season of
Pascha begins on Pascha and ends with the coming of the fortieth day, the Feast of the Ascension.

Easter and the holidays that are related to it are moveable feasts which do not fall on a fixed date in
the Gregorian orJulian calendars which follow only the cycle of the sun; rather, its date is determined
on a lunisolar calendar similar to the Hebrew calendar. The First Council of Nicaea (325) established
two rules, independence of the Jewish calendar and worldwide uniformity, which were the only rules
for Easter explicitly laid down by the council. No details for the computation were specified; these
were worked out in practice, a process that took centuries and generated a number of controversies.
It has come to be the first Sunday after the ecclesiastical full moon that occurs on or soonest after 21
March,[10] but calculations vary.

Easter is linked to the Jewish Passover by much of its symbolism, as well as by its position in the
calendar. In most European languages the feast called Easter in English is termed by the words for
passover in those languages and in the older English versions of the Bible the term Easter was the
term used to translate passover.[11] Easter customs vary across the Christian world, and
include sunrise services, exclaiming the Paschal greeting, clipping the church,[12] and
decorating Easter eggs (symbols of the empty tomb).[13][14][15] The Easter lily, a symbol of the
resurrection,[16][17]traditionally decorates the chancel area of churches on this day and for the rest of
Eastertide.[18] Additional customs that have become associated with Easter and are observed by both
Christians and some non-Christians include egg hunting, the Easter Bunny, and Easter
parades.[19][20][21] There are also various traditional Easter foods that vary regionally.

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