Easter (Пасха)

Plan. I. The moral lessons given us by Jesus. II. When is an Easter III. Eastertide. IV. Easter egg and Easter hare. V. Ireland. VI. Easter in England. VII. Easter in Ukraine and Russia I. The moral lessons given us by Jesus. Celebrating Easter, seeing the happy faces of people around, hearing the joyful announcements Christ is risen, and, on the whole, enjoining these God-blessed sunny spring days, let us pause for a moment and ponder on some of the moral lessons given us by Jesus. We well know that Christianity is ethical through and through, but strange as it may seem, the moral teaching of Christ himself is not very circumstantial.

On the contrary, He appears rather terse on these matters, and it is in His deeds, not words, that the larger part of His mission found its expression. As a person, with all His inclinations and intentions, He does not seem to be a determined moral reformer, not to speak of a revolutionary and he was not in the least a scholar or a man of letters.

He wrote nothing. He mowed quietly and slowly along the highways and among the villages of Galilee and Judea and spoke to people not about any intricate problems of human existence, or theology, or the mysteries of life and death, but about things which belonged to the realm of daily life and the words he chose for that were the words of common men, not those of a professor of ethics. He summed up His theology in an amazingly short and simple phrase God is love and meeting people He very often did not teach them, as He actually did from time to time, but offered them a ready sympathy and understanding, even to the degraded and the outcast.

To them He spoke in the language of tolerance and benevolence, forgiveness and mercy. That was His love and that was the beginning of the moral revolution that transformed the world. II. When is a Easter The greatest Christian festival of the year is Easter. It is either in March or in April, and millions of people joyously observe Christ s resurrection.

This holy day never comes before March 22 or after April 25.

When is an Easter

When is an Easter. So all you need to do is look at the sky Afraid not. For the moon in question is not the real moon, but a hypothetical moon. This one goes round the earth one month in 29 days, the next in 30 day... III.

Eastertide

Passion Sunday or Care Sunday two Sundays before Easter, is still know... Carlings are small dried peas, which are soaked in water overnight and... On Good Friday, the day of the crucifixion, hot cross buns are always ... British settlers brought this custom to the New World. The Easter parade.

Easter egg and Easter hare

They can be dipped into a prepared dye or, more usually boiled in it, ... Russian eggs are sometimes elaborately decorated with miniature pictur... Easter Bunny. One would hardly use them to cure whooping cough, but in bygone days b... When the butter melts, the mixture will look like bread crumbs.

Easter in England

True Easter eggs are hard-boiled, dyed in bright colours, and sometime... . But originally egg-rolling provided an opportunity for divination. Each player marked his or her egg with an identifying sign and then wa... There is an old belief that the true Good Friday bun that is, one made...

Easter in Ukraine and Russia

Easter in Ukraine and Russia. In Ukrainian, Easter is called Velikden ... It has been celebrated over a long period of history and has many rich... On this day pussy-willow branches are blessed in the church. The people tap one another with these branches, repeating the wish Be ... The pysanky and krashanky are an old pre-Christian element and have an...

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