Weekly vignette: Joyeuses Paques

 Weekly Vignette

finding images of Easter vignettes

 using the same Easter "props" every year

 just displayed differently...

 for we love opening the drawer

 and taking out...remembering and knowing

the reason for Easter

Ostrich eggs decorated with vintage  sheet music

 

  

 

I collect old bon bon boxes in duck egg colors

 

this weekend, reflecting on  upcoming Easter

 once again...

Col X

Easter  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 Easter tide or the Easter Season, ending with Pentecost Sunday.

Easter is a movable feast,  meaning it is not fixed in relation to the civil calendar 

 The First Council of Nicaea established the date of Easter as the first Sunday  after the full moon   following the northern hemisphere's vernal equinox.  

Easter is linked to the Jewish Passover  by much of its symbolism, as well as by its position in the calendar.

Easter customs vary across the Christian world, but decorating Easter eggs  is a common motif. In the Western world,  customs such as egg hunting  and the Easter Bunny  extend from the domain of church, and often have a secular character.