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The time of the Crucifixion is
as <colncident Jewish
over, or paschal feast, in the
calendar month “Nisan,” t
of the vernal The
scurity In regard day
from the Christian Gospels themselves,
The Synoptic Gospels seemed to favor
the day as the fifteenth of Nisan, that
of St. John, the fourteenth This es-
tablished, by the of
evidence, that the Crucifixion occurred
on Friday, the day before the Jewish
Sabbath, According to Matthew,
resurrection occurred “in
the Sabbath, as it began to dawn to-
ward the first day of the week”
with the Pass.
Jewish
he month
equinox, first ob
to the
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preponderance
the
the end of
Ecclesiastical history preserves three
distinct phases rel the sub-
sequent day which
eame to be known as Easter. Although
the observance of Easter was at a
very early period the practice of the
Christian church, a serious difference
as to the day for its observance soon
arose between the Christians of Jew-
ish and those of Gentile descent. With
the Jewish Christians, who associated
the death of Christ with the sacrifice
of the Paschal Lamb at the Passover,
which ended “on the fourteenth day
of the moon at evening,” the Easter
festival followed the paschal tradition,
no matter what day of the lunar month
it chanced to fall upon. The Gentile
Christians, on the other hand. follow.
ing the Synoptic Gospels, identified
the first day of the week, Sunday, as
the day of Resurrection, and kept the
preceding Friday as the anniversary of
the Crucifixion. This was the phase
of the controversy that characterized
the first centuries of Christianity,
The second stage in the Easter con-
troversy centers around the Council
of Nice, A. D. 325, where so many
doctrinal points were given authenie
sanction,
commemo
be kept on Sunday throughout the
of astronomical science, and the Ro
man pontiff was to communicate the
date to the churches. This arrange-
ment fixed the date of Easter Sunday
as the Sunday “following the four
teenth day of the paschal moon.” and
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For all the emptiness of life
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"Tis Easter time!
I live again
The stone is rolled away
From every tomb of doubt and grief —
My night is turned to day;
And in my heart Christ reigns as king
This resurrection day!
Peandh Cham Orarsee
defined the paschal moon a
fourteenth
spring equinox.” But this ruling did |
not all difficul The third
phase of the controversy arose from
the divergent calendars and cycles in
vogue in the Eastern and Western
church centers, St. Augustine tells us
that in the year 387 the churches of
Gaul kept Easter on March 21. those
of Italy on April 18, while the Egyp-
tian Christians celebrated April 25 as
Easter day. The British and Irish
churches for a long time adhered to
an ancient system of computation,
though they observed Sunday as the
Easter day.
With the adoption of the Metonic
cycle as a guide, the formula for fix
ing the Easter date was determined
as “the first Sunday which occurs aft.
er the first full moon, or. more acen
rately, after the first fourteenth day
of the moon, following the 21st of
March, which is the vernal equinox.”
As a result, the earliest possible date |
of Easter is March 22, the latest
April 25.
he moon
whose day followed the
settle ties,
Observance of Lent
HE observance of Lent began
within 150 years after Christ's
time, but there was no specified
number of days of fasting. It was
extended to about 40 days hy the
Fourth century and in the Eighth
or Ninth century it was fixed to
commence with Ash Wednesday
and end with Easter Sunday. Forty
days are thus observed, since fast
{ng 1s not observed on the interven.
ing Sundays,
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Unpleasant things may be pleas.
antly remembered and, In a sense,
gloried in. Among these are hard.
ships overcome, dangers survived
and sacrifices that bear fruit. So it
was held by Aeneas, who assured his
comrades that in days to come they
would rejoice to recall thelr trials
and tribulations. One can readily
enough understand this, It is only
the treasons that it is unpleasant to
recall, There can be nothing painful
in the recollection of difficulties mas
tered. An old philosopher was con-
vinced that the gods rejoiced to see
a good man In difficulties, for that
involved a conflict In which it is pos
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the use of eggs was forbidden during
on Easter day colored red to symbolize
the Easter joy. This custom is found
not only In the Latin, but also in the
Oriental churches. Christians are sup-
posed to have adopted the egg-rolling
custom to symbolize the resurrection
and the eggs were colored red in al
lusion to the blood of redemption.”
Easter: Monday is always a gala day
for the kiddies, If they have any une
broken eggs left, especially is this so
for those youngsters in Washington.
On that day thousands of them go to
the White House and Capitol lawns to
roll thelr vari-colored eggs,
There is
hardships must
from these. Easter banished doubt,
Easter
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Justifying purpose; that the struggle is not
futile; that there is possibility for the fruition of life's high and holy and immortal hopes. They want to know that when
they hurl themselves against the battlements of some hideous wrong in human society, or wrestle with some dark evil in their
own lives; when they choose the way of sacrifice rather than of selfish advantage, and set the high values of the spirit above
material gain, they are putting a significance into life that is worth what it costs.
And the Easter story is the reassuring answer, ‘