Easter
40 days after Lent
Easter Origin
The name "Easter" comes from the latin “pascha”
and the hebrew “pesah”. It’s the greatest feast of
the Christian liturgy, because it celebrates the
passion, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
The fact that God decided to resurrect Jesus,
unjustly killed, for the faithful ones means that
God approved Christ's life choices. That is, helping
poor people, solidarity, fraternity and love for
others, and sacrificing his life for these ideals.
The origins of Easter
In the chapter 12 of the Exodus, Mosès orders every
family, before they abandon Egypt, The members of
the families consumed the meal standing, with a stick
in hand, ready for the departure, which happened in
that same night, after the god angel passed through
to kill all the Egyptian firstborns, saving the Hebrew
firstborns whose habitations were marked with blood.
During the centuries, the ritual of Easter, although
subordinate to changes and modifications,
substantially remained always the same and the feast
is still celebrated by all the Hebrews with the
maximum solemnity and for seven day duration. It
was during an Easter celebration that Jesus Christ,
according to the evangelic narration, instituted the
sacrament of the eucarestia.
The symbols of Easter
The fire:
On Easter night, during the solemn wake, the brazier, that burns
outside the church and from which the large candle is lit, attracts the
attention of the faithful crowd in this first moment which prepare the
Easter celebration. The triumph of light on darkness, of heat on cold,
of life on death (mystery then solemnly proclaimed by readings and
sacramental actions on the most solemn night) is already
synthetically express in this concrete language of the new fire,
around which the community is assembled.
Traditions of the day
On Easter everyone usually eats at
home. We eat the “cappelletti”, a
traditional pasta of Romagna
region. We also open the "Easter
eggs”, made out of chocolate, and
the resurrection of God is
celebrated.
The sites
www.alleluja.net/approf/pa-
sim.htm
The authors
Luca Rontini
Virginia
Santadrea