Please help, does anyone know any other religions that celebrate Easter and exactly HOW they celebrate Easter except from Christians?
Thankyou all sooo much! Layla x
I do believe that Easter is Linked to Passover which is celebrated by the Jewish.
From what I read a while back, in the Last Supper, it is thought that Jesus was celebrating passover.
I’m sure if you typed ‘Easter’ into Wikipedia you’d find al the information you’ll need.
=D
Please help, does anyone know any other religions that celebrate Easter and exactly HOW they celebrate Easter except from Christians?
Thankyou all sooo much! Layla x
I do believe that Easter is Linked to Passover which is celebrated by the Jewish.
From what I read a while back, in the Last Supper, it is thought that Jesus was celebrating passover.
I’m sure if you typed ‘Easter’ into Wikipedia you’d find al the information you’ll need.
=D
I need answers as soon as possible because this is for a project.
I also need detailed answers or websites where i can get the information.
hi kaela!While you probably won’t see the Easter bunny if you’re in Italy for Easter, you will find some interesting Italian Easter celebrations. Like all holidays in Italy, Easter, Pasqua in Italian, has its share of rituals and traditions. The Monday following Easter, la Pasquetta is also a holiday throughout Italy. While the days before Easter in Italy include solemn processions and masses, Easter is a joyous celebration.
Good Friday and Easter Week Processions
Solemn religious processions are held in many towns on the Friday or Saturday before Easter and sometimes on Easter Sunday. Many churches have special statues of the Virgin and Jesus that play a big part in the processions. The statues may be paraded through the city or displayed in the main square. Parade participants are often dressed in traditional ancient costumes. Olive branches are often used instead of or along with palm fronds in the processions and to decorate churches.
Enna, in Sicily, has a large procession on Good Friday, with more than 2,000 friars dressed in ancient costumes walking through the streets of the city. Trapani, also in Sicily, is a good place to see processions, held several days during Holy Week. Their Good Friday procession is 24 hours long.
What’s believed to be the oldest Good Friday procession in Italy is in Chieti in the Abruzzo region (see Abruzzo Region Map). The procession with Selecchi’s Miserere played by 100 violins is very moving.
Some towns, such as Montefalco and Gualdo Tadino in Umbria, hold live scenarios during the night of Good Friday or plays enacting the stations of the cross. Priests often visit shops and homes to bless them on the Saturday before Easter.
Rome and St. Peter’s
While Easter mass will be held in every church in Italy, the biggest and most popular mass is held by the Pope at St. Peter’s Basilica. On Good Friday, the Pope celebrates the Via Crucis in Rome near the Colosseum. A huge cross with burning torches lights the sky as the stations of the cross are described in several languages. At the end, the Pope gives a blessing.
Florence – Scoppio del Carro
In Florence, Easter is celebrated with the Scoppio del Carro, explosion of the cart. A huge, decorated wagon is dragged through Florence by white oxen until it reaches Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence’s historic center. Following mass, the Archbishop sends a dove-shaped rocket into the cart, igniting the fireworks held in the cart. This spectacular display is followed by a parade in medieval costumes.
La Madonna Che Scappa in Piazza – Abruzzo Region
Sulmona, in the Abruzzo region, celebrates Easter Sunday with La Madonna Che Scappa in Piazza. On Easter Sunday people dress in green and white, colors of peace, hope, and resurrection, and gather in the main piazza. The woman playing the Virgen Mary is dressed in black. As she moves to the fountain, doves are released and the woman is suddenly dressed in green. Music and feasting follow.
Easter food
Since Easter is the end of the Lent season, food plays a big part in the celebrations. Traditional Easter foods include lamb or goat, artichokes, and special Easter breads that vary from region to region. Pannetone and Colomba (dove shaped) breads are often given as gifts as are hollow chocolate eggs that usually come with a surprise inside.
Easter Monday – La Pasquetta
On Easter Monday, some cities hold dances, free concerts, or unusual games often involving eggs. In the Umbrian hill town of Panicale, cheese is the star. Ruzzolone is played by rolling huge wheels of cheese, weighing about 4 kilos, around the village walls. The object is to get your cheese around the course using the fewest number of strokes. Following the cheese contest, there is a band in the piazza and of course, wine. Read more about Panicale Cheese Rolling or visiting the town of Panicale. Easter Monday is a time to gather with friends and have fun.
I need answers as soon as possible because this is for a project.
I also need detailed answers or websites where i can get the information.
hi kaela!While you probably won’t see the Easter bunny if you’re in Italy for Easter, you will find some interesting Italian Easter celebrations. Like all holidays in Italy, Easter, Pasqua in Italian, has its share of rituals and traditions. The Monday following Easter, la Pasquetta is also a holiday throughout Italy. While the days before Easter in Italy include solemn processions and masses, Easter is a joyous celebration.
Good Friday and Easter Week Processions
Solemn religious processions are held in many towns on the Friday or Saturday before Easter and sometimes on Easter Sunday. Many churches have special statues of the Virgin and Jesus that play a big part in the processions. The statues may be paraded through the city or displayed in the main square. Parade participants are often dressed in traditional ancient costumes. Olive branches are often used instead of or along with palm fronds in the processions and to decorate churches.
Enna, in Sicily, has a large procession on Good Friday, with more than 2,000 friars dressed in ancient costumes walking through the streets of the city. Trapani, also in Sicily, is a good place to see processions, held several days during Holy Week. Their Good Friday procession is 24 hours long.
What’s believed to be the oldest Good Friday procession in Italy is in Chieti in the Abruzzo region (see Abruzzo Region Map). The procession with Selecchi’s Miserere played by 100 violins is very moving.
Some towns, such as Montefalco and Gualdo Tadino in Umbria, hold live scenarios during the night of Good Friday or plays enacting the stations of the cross. Priests often visit shops and homes to bless them on the Saturday before Easter.
Rome and St. Peter’s
While Easter mass will be held in every church in Italy, the biggest and most popular mass is held by the Pope at St. Peter’s Basilica. On Good Friday, the Pope celebrates the Via Crucis in Rome near the Colosseum. A huge cross with burning torches lights the sky as the stations of the cross are described in several languages. At the end, the Pope gives a blessing.
Florence – Scoppio del Carro
In Florence, Easter is celebrated with the Scoppio del Carro, explosion of the cart. A huge, decorated wagon is dragged through Florence by white oxen until it reaches Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence’s historic center. Following mass, the Archbishop sends a dove-shaped rocket into the cart, igniting the fireworks held in the cart. This spectacular display is followed by a parade in medieval costumes.
La Madonna Che Scappa in Piazza – Abruzzo Region
Sulmona, in the Abruzzo region, celebrates Easter Sunday with La Madonna Che Scappa in Piazza. On Easter Sunday people dress in green and white, colors of peace, hope, and resurrection, and gather in the main piazza. The woman playing the Virgen Mary is dressed in black. As she moves to the fountain, doves are released and the woman is suddenly dressed in green. Music and feasting follow.
Easter food
Since Easter is the end of the Lent season, food plays a big part in the celebrations. Traditional Easter foods include lamb or goat, artichokes, and special Easter breads that vary from region to region. Pannetone and Colomba (dove shaped) breads are often given as gifts as are hollow chocolate eggs that usually come with a surprise inside.
Easter Monday – La Pasquetta
On Easter Monday, some cities hold dances, free concerts, or unusual games often involving eggs. In the Umbrian hill town of Panicale, cheese is the star. Ruzzolone is played by rolling huge wheels of cheese, weighing about 4 kilos, around the village walls. The object is to get your cheese around the course using the fewest number of strokes. Following the cheese contest, there is a band in the piazza and of course, wine. Read more about Panicale Cheese Rolling or visiting the town of Panicale. Easter Monday is a time to gather with friends and have fun.
What church services do they have? How do they celebrate Easter Sunday?
yes we have midnight mass on easter. we celebrate easter sunday the same way catholics do.
When I was a kid I thought it was because the body of christ tasted like chocolate, but that’s silly, what’s the deal?
It’s an aphrodisiac. It’s based off of Pagan religious Holy Days that center on worship and reverence of Fertility and Rebirth. Sex is key to fertility being useful and an aphrodisiac is helpful to get that libido up where one needs it.
Eggs are once again used as the part of the whole fertility thing… it’s and egg. Its about as self explanatory as you can get.
Rabbits… well ever heard that saying "…f***ing like jackrabbits…"? Well that’s explained enough I think;
Some say well that’s why I keep Resurrection Sunday instead of Easter. Ummmm 1 Thessalonians 5:22 "Abstain from the Appearance of ALL Evil" If it’s associated with anything pagan (Which God condemns) then don’t do it! Pretty simple right?
If you want a "special day" then go partake of Passover as Christ himself did.
Good Luck
When I was a kid I thought it was because the body of christ tasted like chocolate, but that’s silly, what’s the deal?
It’s an aphrodisiac. It’s based off of Pagan religious Holy Days that center on worship and reverence of Fertility and Rebirth. Sex is key to fertility being useful and an aphrodisiac is helpful to get that libido up where one needs it.
Eggs are once again used as the part of the whole fertility thing… it’s and egg. Its about as self explanatory as you can get.
Rabbits… well ever heard that saying "…f***ing like jackrabbits…"? Well that’s explained enough I think;
Some say well that’s why I keep Resurrection Sunday instead of Easter. Ummmm 1 Thessalonians 5:22 "Abstain from the Appearance of ALL Evil" If it’s associated with anything pagan (Which God condemns) then don’t do it! Pretty simple right?
If you want a "special day" then go partake of Passover as Christ himself did.
Good Luck
I mean the cultural part, not the truemeaning. Jesus’ triumhant resurrection has nothing to do with seasons — other than that it happened at the time of Passover — but our cultural celebration of Easter involves spring symbols like bunnies and chicks. What do you in the Southern Hemishpere use?
Folks in the Southern Hemisphere have to celebrate Easter 6 months from now as it is now autumn there and the falling leaves cover up the hidden eggs. So they are busy raking leaves and picking corn and stuff like that.
I saw the South Park episode xD but why is it really celebrated?
Bede writing in the 8th century CE wrote that the feast of Easter was originally an Anglo-Saxon festival in honour of the goddess Eostre, but that by his time no-one revered the goddess. It seems likely that a pre-Christian religion did celebrate the rebirth of life in spring and that when Christianity was imposed, instead of abolishing the festival, the reason for it was changed from the resurrection of the crops to the resurrection of Christ. The use of fertility symbols – Easter Eggs and Easter Bunnies – is a pointer to the pre-Christian meaning of Easter.
I saw the South Park episode xD but why is it really celebrated?
Bede writing in the 8th century CE wrote that the feast of Easter was originally an Anglo-Saxon festival in honour of the goddess Eostre, but that by his time no-one revered the goddess. It seems likely that a pre-Christian religion did celebrate the rebirth of life in spring and that when Christianity was imposed, instead of abolishing the festival, the reason for it was changed from the resurrection of the crops to the resurrection of Christ. The use of fertility symbols – Easter Eggs and Easter Bunnies – is a pointer to the pre-Christian meaning of Easter.