Easter, Passover, Easter Sunday, Resurrection of the Lord - the oldest and most important Christian holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Weeks preceding it, which is the most important time of remembrance for the Christian faith of events is called Holy Week. The last three nights of the week: Maundy Thursday (evening), Good Friday, Easter Saturday and Easter Sunday is known as the Easter Triduum (Triduum). In Christianity, although every Sunday is a reminder of Christ's resurrection, but the Resurrection Sunday is the most solemn of them.
During the council of Nice in 325 years found that it will celebrate the first Sunday after the first full moon of spring. This complicated rule is essentially a reflection of the solar in nature the Julian calendar a date of 14 Nisan Hebrew religious calendar, which is the solar calendar lunarno. Date 14 Nisan in the Hebrew calendar designates the beginning of Passover, which were happening around the events of salvation. Easter is a movable feast: it may fall March 22 at the earliest, but no later than April 25. From the date of Easter is linked to most of the time moving and Catholic holidays, including: Ash Wednesday, Lent, Easter Triduum, Ascension, Pentecost, Corpus Christi and others. Following the introduction of the Gregorian calendar once again appeared to be different: in the Orthodox Easter is celebrated because according to the Julian calendar.
Recently some Christian environment call for the establishment of Easter as a holiday independent of the phases of the moon. Between others proposed to circumvent Easter is always the second Sunday in April, that is, between 9 and 15 Another option is a proposal to maintain seven Sundays between Epiphany and Ash Wednesday. It also gives the time between 9 and 15 April with the exception of leap year in which Easter on April 7.
own method of determining the date of Easter was used in the early Middle Ages, the Church and the Church iroszkockim starobrytyjskim.
Easter Sunday is the first day of the Easter holiday period, called the octave of Easter. Easter Time Easter Vigil begins. Easter Time takes joy in the liturgy of 50 days and ends on Pentecost Sunday. In the 40th day (Thursday) is celebrated on the feast of the Ascension of Jesus [2].
With the celebration of Easter is linked to many folk customs (some of which come from the Slavonic spring holidays): Easter breakfast, eggs, paigns, śmigus-dyngus, grandfathers śmigustne, Rękawka, Emmaus, walatka, with cock after dyngusie, Siuda Baba , the hanging of Judas, the funeral żuru and herring pucheroki, palm Easter, Palm Jezusek. / Taken from the wikipedia /
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