Happy Easter, and.... What's Easter?
Hello guys!
First of all: HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!!!
And... Sorry for still not having replied to all your the PM/comments, I'll manage to do it today or tomorrow...
Ahhh it's a busy period!
By the way, lately I realized that me, the one who never trusted people and who never relied on anyone because I was betrayed too much times, also from my family members...
I'm seriously in love with my fandom friends!
Seriously guys, we are far apart, and I don't know well some of you, but in my heart I really feel I love you!
You are the reason I'm still fighting in this world ^^
Anyway....
Since my friends have different religions and I don't know if all of them understand what really are religious celebrations as Christmas and
Easter, today I'll try to explain them in few words what really are and how we celebrate it (here in Italy).
My religion is Catholic Christian, that is my Country's official religion. Actually I never was a believer, but my parents gave me baptism and made me do Communion and Confirmation because if someone dies without make these sacraments, they won't have a funeral, and they can't be buried. (I never understood this rule, but it works in this way).
As I said, I'm not religious, but maybe just because of it, I'm able to accept and respect all the different religions and different belief.
I mean, for what I think, everyone is absolutely free to believe in what he wants! It can be a God, a Spirit or whatever...
It's just ok! And... It's not in the topic, but I'm ok also with sexual differences. I always had homosexual friends and I love them for what they are. I really don't care if they love people of their same sex or what. They're free to love who their heart chose!
Ok, re-starting to talking about celebrations:
Christmas (in italian Natale) = The birthday of Jesus Christ, son of God and Virgin Mary and it's celebrated every year in December 25th.
Easter (in italian Pasqua) = The resurrection of Jesus Christ, 3 days after his death. The celebration day changes every year but it's always on Sunday. It changes because it follows Lunar Phases, and it's celebrated on the 1st Sunday after the 1st full moon, after the Spring Equinox (March 21st).
Easter is the most important celebration of Christian Catholicism, even though Christmas has spread more around the world because the Coca-Cola company, created Santa Claus XD
Yes, it was Coca-Cola company the one who created the modern Santa Claus, dressed in red.
They mixed the italian tradition of the bishop Saint Nicholas of Myra (Nikolaos of Bari - Nicola di Bari) with the germanic mythology of Odin (Wôtan <- Hoping I wrote it well) and they came up with this old man with white beard who became famous basically everywhere....
Easter is more important than Christmas because it symbolize the liberation of human sins through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ was crucifix, and after 3 days from his death he rise again, in Paradise with his father, God.
Easter celebrations are changed during the years, but the symbols are still the same:
- FIRE: It represents the victory of the Light against the Darkness. During the Easter's night, the priests light a candle outside the churches.
- CANDLE: It symbolizes the resurrection, the new life that Christ gave to the humans. After the priest light the candle, the believer follow him into the Church, who represents the way for the salvation.
- WATER: It represents the purification, a new baptism. During the Easter Mass, the priest blesses the believer and their eggs using blessed water.
- EGGS: It symbolizes life, rebirth and Spring. In the old times, starting from middle ages, and also when I was a kid (I feel so old!!) there was the tradition of decorate the shell of boiled eggs, and exchange it with friends and family, then eating it at the end of Easter Lunch.
In the last years, boiled eggs are been replaced by big chocolate eggs, wrapped in colorful paper, that people buy to the supermarket or chocolate shops. There also chocolate eggs decorated with icing and sugar ^^
- BUNNY: It symbolizes Christ, and represents the resurrection. Usually during Easter there are bunnies drawn everywhere, who carry baskets full of eggs... He's the one who brings the new life.
- DOVE: It symbolizes Peace and is a recall from the Genesis. Here in italy, during Easter, we eat a gateau with a dove-shape.
- LAMB: It represents the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, and the tradition is to eat Lamb meat during Easter lunch. (I never ate it, poor lamb!)
- BELLS: It represents the sound that announce to the believers that something is happened. During Easter they ring the churches' bells a lot! This morning they started at 7. So noisy!!
Well, this is more or less what Easter is, or at least what I know about Easter in my religion...
I hope it will be helpful for the ones who didn't know about it...
See you soon, and Happy Easter again~
First of all: HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!!!
And... Sorry for still not having replied to all your the PM/comments, I'll manage to do it today or tomorrow...
Ahhh it's a busy period!
By the way, lately I realized that me, the one who never trusted people and who never relied on anyone because I was betrayed too much times, also from my family members...
I'm seriously in love with my fandom friends!
Seriously guys, we are far apart, and I don't know well some of you, but in my heart I really feel I love you!
You are the reason I'm still fighting in this world ^^
Anyway....
Since my friends have different religions and I don't know if all of them understand what really are religious celebrations as Christmas and
Easter, today I'll try to explain them in few words what really are and how we celebrate it (here in Italy).
My religion is Catholic Christian, that is my Country's official religion. Actually I never was a believer, but my parents gave me baptism and made me do Communion and Confirmation because if someone dies without make these sacraments, they won't have a funeral, and they can't be buried. (I never understood this rule, but it works in this way).
As I said, I'm not religious, but maybe just because of it, I'm able to accept and respect all the different religions and different belief.
I mean, for what I think, everyone is absolutely free to believe in what he wants! It can be a God, a Spirit or whatever...
It's just ok! And... It's not in the topic, but I'm ok also with sexual differences. I always had homosexual friends and I love them for what they are. I really don't care if they love people of their same sex or what. They're free to love who their heart chose!
Ok, re-starting to talking about celebrations:
Christmas (in italian Natale) = The birthday of Jesus Christ, son of God and Virgin Mary and it's celebrated every year in December 25th.
Easter (in italian Pasqua) = The resurrection of Jesus Christ, 3 days after his death. The celebration day changes every year but it's always on Sunday. It changes because it follows Lunar Phases, and it's celebrated on the 1st Sunday after the 1st full moon, after the Spring Equinox (March 21st).
Easter is the most important celebration of Christian Catholicism, even though Christmas has spread more around the world because the Coca-Cola company, created Santa Claus XD
Yes, it was Coca-Cola company the one who created the modern Santa Claus, dressed in red.
They mixed the italian tradition of the bishop Saint Nicholas of Myra (Nikolaos of Bari - Nicola di Bari) with the germanic mythology of Odin (Wôtan <- Hoping I wrote it well) and they came up with this old man with white beard who became famous basically everywhere....
Easter is more important than Christmas because it symbolize the liberation of human sins through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ was crucifix, and after 3 days from his death he rise again, in Paradise with his father, God.
Easter celebrations are changed during the years, but the symbols are still the same:
- FIRE: It represents the victory of the Light against the Darkness. During the Easter's night, the priests light a candle outside the churches.
- CANDLE: It symbolizes the resurrection, the new life that Christ gave to the humans. After the priest light the candle, the believer follow him into the Church, who represents the way for the salvation.
- WATER: It represents the purification, a new baptism. During the Easter Mass, the priest blesses the believer and their eggs using blessed water.
- EGGS: It symbolizes life, rebirth and Spring. In the old times, starting from middle ages, and also when I was a kid (I feel so old!!) there was the tradition of decorate the shell of boiled eggs, and exchange it with friends and family, then eating it at the end of Easter Lunch.
In the last years, boiled eggs are been replaced by big chocolate eggs, wrapped in colorful paper, that people buy to the supermarket or chocolate shops. There also chocolate eggs decorated with icing and sugar ^^
- BUNNY: It symbolizes Christ, and represents the resurrection. Usually during Easter there are bunnies drawn everywhere, who carry baskets full of eggs... He's the one who brings the new life.
- DOVE: It symbolizes Peace and is a recall from the Genesis. Here in italy, during Easter, we eat a gateau with a dove-shape.
- LAMB: It represents the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, and the tradition is to eat Lamb meat during Easter lunch. (I never ate it, poor lamb!)
- BELLS: It represents the sound that announce to the believers that something is happened. During Easter they ring the churches' bells a lot! This morning they started at 7. So noisy!!
Well, this is more or less what Easter is, or at least what I know about Easter in my religion...
I hope it will be helpful for the ones who didn't know about it...
See you soon, and Happy Easter again~