About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 121. Chapters: Easter egg, Pentecost, Sunday, Palm Sunday, Reform of the date of Easter, Great Lent, Zacchaeus, Computus, Good Friday Prayer for the Jews, Good Friday closure controversy, Easter Vigil, Lord's Day, Pentecostarion, Lazarus, Easter Monday, Epitaphios, Dormition of the Theotokos, Myrrhbearers, Easter parade, Paschal greeting, Artos, Paschal troparion, Easter controversy, Trinity Sunday, Easter customs, Bright Week, Octave of Easter, Paschal Tide, Augustalis, Easter Epic, Holy Saturday, Ducasse de Mons, Maslenitsa, Paschal cycle, Crucession, Here Comes Peter Cottontail: The Movie, Mid-Pentecost, Apostles' Fast, Easter Saturday, Easter bonnet, Easter Week, Paschal Homily, Eastertide, Pre-Lenten Season, Paschal Full Moon, Paschal Hours, Easter postcard, Lumen Christi, Quem Quaeritis?, Pussy willow, Paschal trikirion, Easter Friday, Rand Show, Paas, The Reckoning of Time, Klinghammer's computus, Salzburg Easter Festival, Mass of the Presanctified, Dionysius Exiguus' Easter table, Easter Act 1928, Festum Ovorum, List of dates for Easter. Excerpt: Easter (Old English: Greek: , Paskha; Aramaic: Pas a; from Hebrew: Pesa ) is the central feast in the Christian liturgical year. According to the Canonical gospels, Jesus rose from the dead on the third day after his crucifixion. His resurrection is celebrated on Easter Day or Easter Sunday (also Resurrection Day or Resurrection Sunday). The chronology of his death and resurrection is variously interpreted to have occurred between AD 26 and 36. Easter marks the end of Lent, a forty-day period of fasting, prayer, and penance. The last week of the Lent is called Holy Week, and it contains Good Friday, commemorating the crucifixion and death of Jesus. Easter is followed by a fifty-day period called Eastertide or the Easter Season, ending with Pentecost Sunday. Easter is a move...
