Easter

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Easter

• 40 days after Lent

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Easter Origin

• The name "Easter" comes from the latin pascha
  and the hebrew pesah. Its the greatest feast
  of the Christian liturgy, because it celebrates
  the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus
  Christ. The fact that God decided to resurrect
  Jesus, unjustly killed, for the faithful ones
  means that God approved Christ's life choices.
  That is, helping poor people, solidarity,
  fraternity and love for others, and sacrificing
  his life for these ideals.

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The origins of Easter

• In the chapter 12 of the Exodus, Mosès orders
  every family, before they abandon Egypt, The
  members of the families consumed the meal
  standing, with a stick in hand, ready for the
  departure, which happened in that same night,
  after the god angel passed through to kill all
  the Egyptian firstborns, saving the Hebrew
  firstborns whose habitations were marked with
  blood. During the centuries, the ritual of
  Easter, although subordinate to changes and
  modifications, substantially remained always the
  same and the feast is still celebrated by all the
  Hebrews with the maximum solemnity and for seven
  day duration. It was during an Easter celebration
  that Jesus Christ, according to the evangelic
  narration, instituted the sacrament of the
  eucarestia.

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The symbols of Easter
The fire On Easter night, during the solemn wak
e, the brazier, that burns outside the church and
from which the large candle is lit, attracts the
attention of the faithful crowd in this first
moment which prepare the Easter celebration. The
triumph of light on darkness, of heat on cold, of
life on death (mystery then solemnly proclaimed
by readings and sacramental actions on the most
solemn night) is already synthetically express
in this concrete language of the new fire, around
which the community is assembled.
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Traditions of the day

• On Easter everyone usually eats at home. We eat
  the cappelletti, a traditional pasta of Romagna
  region. We also open the "Easter eggs, made out
  of chocolate, and the resurrection of God is
  celebrated.

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The authors

• Luca Rontini
• Virginia Santadrea