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  2. Easter is March 31 this year. Here's why many Christians will ...

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    why does easter move every year? Easter is not a fixed date. For the majority of the world’s Christians, Easter Sunday — and in turn, the sunrise service tradition — will be observed on ...

  3. Explainer: Why Christians celebrate Easter with sunrise ... - AOL

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    For the majority of the world’s Christians, Easter Sunday — and in turn, the sunrise service tradition — will be […] The post Explainer: Why Christians celebrate Easter with sunrise ...

  4. When is Easter 2024? And is it early this year? What to know ...

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    Easter is celebrated two ways, one is with mass services and prayer; the other comes with brightly colored eggs, candy and the Easter Bunny. For many, the day is a combination of the two.

  5. Flowering the cross - Wikipedia

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    A flowered cross in a parish church (2006) Flowering the cross is a Western Christian tradition practiced at the arrival of Easter, in which worshippers place flowers on the bare wooden cross that was used in the Good Friday liturgy, in order to symbolize "the new life that emerges from Jesus’s death on Good Friday".

  6. Paschal Triduum - Wikipedia

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    The Paschal Triduum or Easter Triduum (Latin: Triduum Paschale), [1] Holy Triduum (Latin: Triduum Sacrum), or the Three Days, [2] is the period of three days that begins with the liturgy on the evening of Maundy Thursday, [3] reaches its high point in the Easter Vigil, and closes with evening prayer on Easter Sunday. [4]

  7. Easter controversy - Wikipedia

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    Quartodecimanism (from the Vulgate Latin quarta decima in Leviticus 23:5, [1] meaning fourteenth) is the practice of celebrating Easter on the 14th of Nisan at the same time as the Jewish Passover. [2] [3] [4] Quartodecimanism caused two schisms, one headed by Blastus in Rome and one headed by Polycrates in the East. [5]

  8. When is Easter 2024? How its date is determined each ... - AOL

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    The branch follows the Julian calendar, meaning orthodox Easter falls between April 4 and May 8, the History Channel reports. This year, it will take place on Sunday, May 5, 2024. History of Easter

  9. Easter - Wikipedia

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    Easter, [nb 1] also called Pascha [nb 2] (Aramaic, Greek, Latin) or Resurrection Sunday, [nb 3] is a Christian festival and cultural holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, described in the New Testament as having occurred on the third day of his burial following his crucifixion by the Romans at Calvary c. 30 AD.