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Yes, it’s that time of year again. Time for Easter Sunday, and everything that comes along with the lovely day that is celebrated around the world, the Easter holiday. For some, Easter is a time when we get religious and go to church. And that means that it’s one of 3 times that we go to church (Easter Sunday, Thanskgiving, and Christmas Eve). But for others, like my kids, it’s time for the Easter Bunny to make an appearance.

From Wikipedia, Easter means:

Easter  is an important annual religious feast in the Christian liturgical year.[1] According to Christian scripture, Jesus was resurrected from the dead three days[2] after his crucifixion. Many Christian denominations celebrate this resurrection on Easter Day or Easter Sunday[3] (also Resurrection Day or Resurrection Sunday), two days after Good Friday. The chronology of his death and resurrection is variously interpreted to be between A.D. 26 and 36.

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Easter also refers to the season of the church year called Eastertide or the Easter Season. Traditionally the Easter Season lasted for the forty days from Easter Day until Ascension Day but now officially lasts for the fifty days until Pentecost. The first week of the Easter Season is known as Easter Week or the Octave of Easter. Easter also marks the end of Lent, a season of prayer and penance.

Easter is a moveable feast, meaning it is not fixed in relation to the civil calendar. Easter falls at some point between late March and late April each year (early April to early May in Eastern Christianity), following the cycle of the Moon. After several centuries of disagreement, all churches accepted the computation of the Alexandrian Church (now the Coptic Church) that Easter is the first Sunday after the Paschal Full Moon, which is the first moon whose 14th day (the ecclesiastic “full moon”) is on or after March 21 (the ecclesiastic “vernal equinox”).

Easter is linked to the Jewish Passover not only for much of its symbolism but also for its position in the calendar.

Cultural elements, such as the Easter Bunny and Easter egg hunts, have become part of the holiday’s modern celebrations, and those aspects are often celebrated by many Christians and non-Christians alike. There are also some Christian denominations who do not celebrate Easter.

Here in North America, Easter always falls on a Sunday between March 22 and April 25th. The day after Easter, Easter Monday, is actually a legal holiday in many countries. But not in the USA. In Eastern Orthodox Churches (those churches who use the Julian calendar for religious dates), Easter also falls on a Sunday between March 22 and April 25th, inclusive of the Julian calendar.

Here in North America, in the British Isles, and in New Zealand and Australia, Easter has been secularized, so much so that many families participate in Easter only by decorating Easter eggs on the Saturday evening before Easter Sunday: the kids then hunt for Easter eggs on Easter Sunday morning. By Easter Sunday morning, the Easter bunny has hidden them all over the house and all over the yard.

But, like I said, it’s all about the Easter Bunny and, in our home, it’s all about the Easter Cookies we get every year from Cookies By Design, the gift basket people.

How “sweet” is that?

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