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In another thread, somebody said the Easter is "another pagan festival stolen by the Christians". This is pure ignorance, and it is not true.
The Catholic Church calls it "Pascha", the Latin word derived from Passover. The Eastern Orthodox call it its Greek equivalent which, by sheer coincidence, is also spelled "Pascha". It is a celebration of the day Christ rose from the dead, and occurs at the same time as the Jewish passover, which we all know is when Christ was put to death and then rose again on the first day of the week.
That is the celebration, and the highest holy day on the Christian calendar.
The word "Easter" has been imposed on this holiday as a matter of the English language, not by the Church. The English language has given us a lot of rotten substitutions for religious words that were around before there even was an English language. The English language has its Genesis among the norther Barbarians of Europe, not the southern nations of the Empire. Have you ever noticed how Spanish and Italian and Portuguese all sound very similar? That because they all come from Latin, the language of the Empire. Other languages come from the Barbarians and the East.
In Spanish, Easter is "Pascua de Resurrección"
In Italian, Easter is "Pasqua"
In Portuguese Easter is "Páscoa".
Sadly, in English, we are stuck with Easter.
But this has absolutely nothing to do with the Church. The Church did not invent the English language. Pascha is what it is, the high holy day celebrating the day Christ rose from the dead. What it is NOT is "another pagan festival stolen by the Christians".
The Catholic Church calls it "Pascha", the Latin word derived from Passover. The Eastern Orthodox call it its Greek equivalent which, by sheer coincidence, is also spelled "Pascha". It is a celebration of the day Christ rose from the dead, and occurs at the same time as the Jewish passover, which we all know is when Christ was put to death and then rose again on the first day of the week.
That is the celebration, and the highest holy day on the Christian calendar.
The word "Easter" has been imposed on this holiday as a matter of the English language, not by the Church. The English language has given us a lot of rotten substitutions for religious words that were around before there even was an English language. The English language has its Genesis among the norther Barbarians of Europe, not the southern nations of the Empire. Have you ever noticed how Spanish and Italian and Portuguese all sound very similar? That because they all come from Latin, the language of the Empire. Other languages come from the Barbarians and the East.
In Spanish, Easter is "Pascua de Resurrección"
In Italian, Easter is "Pasqua"
In Portuguese Easter is "Páscoa".
Sadly, in English, we are stuck with Easter.
But this has absolutely nothing to do with the Church. The Church did not invent the English language. Pascha is what it is, the high holy day celebrating the day Christ rose from the dead. What it is NOT is "another pagan festival stolen by the Christians".