Easter Blog

•  29/8/2023 10:56 PM

•  2/9/2020 12:00 AM

Outside the parish church of St Michael the Archangel in Denia.

•  19/8/2020 12:00 AM

Easter or Resurrection Sunday, is a Christian festival and holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead. It is described in the New Testament as having occurred on the third day of his burial following his crucifixion by the Romans at Calvary c. 30 AD. It is the culmination of the Passion of Jesus Christ, preceded by Lent which is a 40-day period of fasting, prayer, and penance.

•  22/7/2020 12:00 AM

The English term is derived from the festival of the Anglo-Saxon Spring goddess Ēostre; Easter is also linked to the Jewish Passover by its name, by its origin (according to the synoptic Gospels, both the crucifixion and the resurrection took place during the week of Passover). In most European languages, both the Christian Easter and the Jewish Passover are called by the same name; and in the older English versions of the Bible, as well, the term Easter was used to translate Passover.

•  17/6/2020 12:00 AM

The modern English term Easter, modern Dutch ooster and German Ostern, developed from an Old English word. Bede provides the only documentary source for the etymology of the word, in his eighth-century The Reckoning of Time.