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Show jllfeRepicmg on MS, Easter Sundays C' 1 HE heart of Christendom rejoices re-joices on Easter Sunday. -w The entry into Jerusalem on i&&a Palm Sunday, the agony f Christ In the garden, the crucifixion cru-cifixion and burial ou Good Friday nil these are past. Death Is swallowed up in victory. Christ the Lord Is risen today t If, as has been suggested, the word Easter is derived from Oster, which signifies rising, then is Easter Sunday, both lu name and reality, the feast of the resurrection. It Is more probable, however, that Faster gets its name from Eostre. ,.i Paxon deity, whose feast was celebrated cele-brated every spring about the time of the Christian festival.' A compromise compro-mise was thus effected. Christians accepting ac-cepting the pagan name and pagans accepting the Christian significance of the day. Faster Is a movable feast. It falls on "the first Sunday after the full moon which happens upon or next after the twenty-first of March, and, if the full moon happens upon a Sunday. Easter day Is the Sunday after." In earlier days Easter was called the Paschal feast, for It was kept at the same time as the Pascha, or Jewish Jew-ish Passover. Si'imich for the origin of the name. Foster Sunday today Is celebrated hy young and old alike. For the children there are rabbits and Raster eggs and the unrestrained joy of egg hunts In back yards and in public parks. For the grown-ups there are new suits, new hats. But surely Easter holds more than this for us. It Is not a day of happiness happi-ness alone, nor of outward show alone ft Is a day of victory. Just as our Saxon forefathers celebrated cele-brated Fostre and the victory of things physical, so we celebrate Easter and the victory of things spiritual. The heart of man is tilled with the beauty i f spring's (lowers that have sprung from death to life. The soul of man Is triumphant, for It Is filled with a spirit which dle'.li f:"t. Christ the Lord is rlseul |
