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KOMPAS.com – Easter is a holiday for Christians to celebrate faith in the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
In the New Testament of the Bible, this event occurred three days after Jesus was crucified by the Romans and died around 30 AD.
Many of the traditions associated with Easter today are commemorated and preserved today. This holiday has a high religious significance in the Christian faith.
The Easter holidays do not fall on the same date each year. In 2021, the celebration of Easter falls on Sunday, April 4.
Easter generally falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon on or after the vernal equinox.
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Why is it called Easter?
S t. His Excellency Bede, the 6th century writer of the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (Ecclesiastical History of the English People), states that the English word “Easter” comes from Eostre, or Eostrae, the Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring and fertility.
Other historians hold that “Easter” comes from in albis, a pure Latin phrase for dawn, or “dawn.”
Despite its importance as a Christian holy day, many of the traditions and symbols that play a key role in the celebration of Easter have their roots in pagan celebrations. Especially the celebration of the pagan goddess Eostre and the feast of the Jewish Passover.
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Easter religious traditions
The resurrection of Jesus, as described in the New Testament in the Bible, is basically the foundation on which Christian religions are built.
Easter is a very important date on the Christian calendar.
According to the New Testament, Jesus was arrested by the Roman authorities because he claimed to be “the Son of God.” Some say that the Romans could have seen it as a threat to the empire.
Jesus was sentenced to death by Pontius Pilate, the Roman prefect of the province of Judea from AD 26-36.
The death of Jesus by crucifixion, by Christians, is marked by the feast of Good Friday (the Friday before Easter). Then the resurrection of Jesus three days after his crucifixion, by the Gospel writers, became evidence that he was the son of the living God.
In Christianity, including Roman Catholicism, the period before Easter has a special meaning.
The period of fasting and repentance is called Lent. This celebration begins on Ash Wednesday and lasts for 40 days.
The Sunday before Easter Sunday is called Palm Sunday. The feast and commemorated the coming of Jesus to Jerusalem, when the disciples placed palm fronds across the street to greet him.
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There are many traditions of the Easter season, one of which is the Easter egg feast. Usually in the celebration of Easter there are a series of competitions such as looking for eggs and decorating eggs.
According to history, eggs are believed to represent fertility and birth in certain pagan traditions that preceded Christianity.
Egg decoration may have been part of Easter celebrations that also have the meaning of the resurrection or rebirth of Jesus.
This Easter tradition is perhaps the most famous for children.
In the west, the celebration of the Easter festival also involves the Easter Bunny. Not just eggs, the Easter bunny also delivers candy to kids on Easter Sunday morning.
The origins of the Easter Bunny tradition are unclear. Although some historians believe that the tradition began in the United States, it coincided with the arrival of German immigrants in the 1700s to “Uncle Sam’s country.”
In many cultures, rabbits are known to be energetic and enthusiastic creatures. The arrival of the bunnies to the spring meadow is also associated as a symbol of birth and renewal.
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