The day on which the festival is observed; Easter day.
Celebration of Christ?s resurrection. Also called The Resurrection of Our Lord.
This is the most important holy day of the Christian calendar. Easter Sunday commemorates the day in the springtime when the resurrection of Jesus is believed to have occurred. The date is calculated by one formula by most Eastern Orthodox churches, and by another formula elsewhere in Christianity. Easter Sunday falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon after MAR-20, the nominal date of the Spring Equinox. It can be on any Sunday from March 22 to April 25th. Eastern Orthodox churches sometimes celebrate Easter on the same day as the rest of Christianity. However if that date does not follow Passover, then the Orthodox churches delay their Easter - sometimes by over a month.
The religious celebration of Christ's resurrection, held on the first Sunday after the first full moon on or after 21 March. It was the oldest and greatest annual Christian religious feast. (Lynch, Joseph H. The Medieval Church: A Brief History, 362)
Commemorates when Jesus, who had been crucified the day before the Sabbath, was raised to life by God the day after the Sabbath.
This is the most important Christian festival on the Church calendar. It is the celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus from the dead. Easter eggs have become associated with the celebration, symbolising the bursting forth of new, resurrection life from the tomb. The name Easter comes from the pagan, Saxon goddess Eostre whose sacred animal was the rabbit.
The season of the Church Year which focuses on Christ's rising from the dead after his death on the cross.
We celebrate new life with Jesus at Easter.
The major festival in the Christian church which celebrates the life, death and resurrection of Jesus.
central Christian festival in memory of the resurrection of Jesus from the dead
The Sunday following the first full moon on or after the 21st March.
A legal term in the English calendar, usually beginning 17 days after Easter and ending 3-5 weeks later.
The most holy of Christian sacred days. The day commemorates the resurrection of Jesus Christ from his death by crucifixion. Observances include worship services beginning at sunrise, special music, feasting, and parades.
(or Pascha): Celebrates the resurrection from death of Jesus Christ. It is the oldest and most important festival in the Christian year and initiates the 50-day period culminating in Pentecost. Protestant and Roman Catholic Christians observe Easter on a different date than Orthodox Christians. (Christianity)
The Sunday in the Christian year designated for the celebration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. This is not a fixed date but is based on the lunar calendar. Easter falls on the Sunday after the first full moon on or after March 21st. The earliest possible date for Easter is March 22nd. and the latest is April 25th. Some coming Easter dates are as follows: 2003 (April 20th.); 2004 .
a Christian celebration of the Resurrection of Christ; celebrated on the Sunday following the first full moon after the vernal equinox
a major religious festival of Christians that is celebrated in a grand manner with a big party time celebration
a reminder that Jesus is the only hope the world has
the feast of the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ; the major feast of the calendar; a movable feast falling on the Sunday after the first full moon following the spring equinox
The central event of the Christian year, celebrating the rising of Jesus from the dead. Christian teaching relates this event to the Jewish seder held at Passover (or Pesach), and in many languages the word is similar, such as the Orthodox term Pascha. The date of Easter is set according to a lunar calculation.
Resurrection of Christ. Easter is joyous with Easter eggs and spring symbols to represent new life.
the oldest feast of the Christian church celebrating the resurrection of Christ; Easter Day falls on or between 21 March, and 25 April.
(Christian) Commemoration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ from his death by crucifixion; Observances include worship services beginning at sunrise, music, feasting, and parades
the celebration of Christ’s Resurrection ("rise to life again") from the Dead after being crucified. (BCP pp. 170 – 174, 222 – 225)
the festival of the Resurrection of Christ; all movable feasts, Ascension Day, Whitsunday, Trinity Sunday, depend on Easter
The season of the church year, in March or April, when the resurrection of Christ is celebrated; the liturgical color of Easter is white or gold. See " Good Friday."
A season in the Church Year when the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead is specially celebrated. The Easter season has seven Sundays. However, every Sunday is considered 'a little Easter.'
The Feast of the Resurrection of Christ, also known as Pascha (from the Hebrew word for Passover). Christ proclaimed Himself as the true Passover and offered Himself as a sacrifice. Orthodox Christians celebrate Easter according to the decree of the Council of Nicea in A.D. 325: the first Sunday following the first full moon following the spring equinox following the Jewish Passover. Thus, Orthodox Easter is often one, four, or five weeks after the western Easter.
A Christian festival commemorating the resurrection of Christ
Easter is not only the day celebrating Jesus being resurrected from the dead, but it is also a season of celebration lasting for the 50 days after Easter to Pentecost. Our liturgy is especially celebrative and extraverted during this season. Prayers of confession are generally omitted. The first celebration of Easter is the Great Vigil of Easter on Easter Eve. See Holy Week and Easter at Christ Church Cathedral.
The day celebrating the Lord's Resurrection and the Fifty Days following.
This is the major Christian feast which celebrates the Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. In New Testament times it was celebrated weekly as every Sunday was known as ‘the Lord's day' and honoured as a new Sabbath. Easter Sunday marks the end of the penitential period of Lent.
Christian festival of Christ's resurrection, coinciding approximately with the first full moon after the vernal equinox. Easter is named after the ancient German goddess of spring, Eastre. This calendar festival finds its primitive origins in earlier European and Middle Eastern cultures, all of which had major festivals, usually to do with resurrection and/or release from bondage, based around the vernal equinox.
Easter, also known as Pascha (Greek Πάσχα: Passover), the Feast of the Resurrection, the Sunday of the Resurrection, or Resurrection Day, is the most important religious feast of the Christian liturgical year, observed between late March and late April (early April to early May in Eastern Christianity). It celebrates the resurrection of Jesus, which his followers believe occurred on the third day after his death by crucifixion some time in the period AD 27 to 33 (see Good Friday). In the Roman Catholic Church, Easter is actually an eight-day feast called the Octave of Easter.