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very colorful festival. Spring comes and changes sad colors into

bright ones. New life begins under golden rays of the Sun and blue cloth of the Sky. People and Nature are commemorating the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

bring the song of spring
Into the fixed routine of

us
And make it gaily sing
You've freely brought to everyone
The feast of joy and gladness

Easter....
A beautiful time of the year, With carols and tinsel
A lots of good cheer
With charring and charring And hearts drawing near-Easter....
A beautiful time of the year Easter.

resurrection, as described in the Bible, means that just as

Jesus rose from the grave, Christians also can receive new life after death. The Easter holiday celebrates this belief.

Christians’ Belief

season of the Christian year. The season begins with Lent,

a 40-day period before Easter Sunday. During the Lent, Christians prepare for Easter. Lent is considered a time for penance, a time to show sorrow for sins and to seek forgiveness. One way many Christians show their sorrow by fasting, which limits the kinds and amounts of food that are eaten.

hold special services in the evening. At many of those

services ashes are placed on the foreheads of worshipers to remind them to have a humble spirit.

week of Lent and recalls the events leading to Jesus'

death and resurrection.

the cross for the sins of the world. Many churches

hold services from noon until 3 p.m. to symbolize the last three
hours of darkness while Jesus suffered on the cross. While Jesus died on the cross and was buried, he rose from the dead, and that is what Easter is all about.

Bible, Jesus' friends arrived at the grave to find the

stone moved and an angel standing nearby saying that Jesus' body was no longer in the grave that he had been raised from the dead. In many churches outdoor Easter services take place at sunrise to celebrate'Jesus' resurrection. Just as Jesus rose from the dead Christians believe they will rise from the dead into Heaven after their death on Earth if they have accepted Jesus as their savior.

Easter Sunday

through God give you all the faith it takes To

make your dreams come true. May His love and wisdom always help To guide you on your way And His lights shine Down upon you now To bless this special day

God bless you on Easter

A poem

in new clothers and go to church on Easter Sunday.
 People

give thanks to God, Sing songs, listen to musik on Easter and they say «Best wishes for a Happy Easter »
 

are observed, whether it is celebrated as the start of

spring or a religious festival. In England it is a time for the giving and receiving of presents which traditionally take the form of an Easter egg, for the Easter Bonnet Parade and hot cross buns.

popular emblem of Easter, but fluffy little chicks, baby rabbits

and spring-time flowers like daffodils, dangling catkins and the arum lily are also used to signify the Nature's reawakening.

its religious and secular observers alike.
Eggs are a forbidden

food during Lent, making them a welcome return to the menu on Easter Day.
Easter is a Christian festival. For Christians the custom of giving eggs at Easter celebrates new life. Christians remember that Jesus, after dying on the cross, rose from the dead. They believe that, through his resurrection, Jesus defeated death and sin and offers people the promise of eternal life if they follow his teachings.

birds eggs. These eggs were painted in bright colours to

give them further meaning as a gift. We still paint bird eggs today but usually only chicken eggs

Nowadays Easter eggs are made of chocolate and at Easter children eat chocolate eggs.

me, one for you
Easter eggs, one, two, three,
One for

you, two for me!
Easter eggs, pink and blue.
One for me, two for you.
Easter eggs, one, two, three.
Two for you and one for me!
One for you, one for me.
One for the teacher.
One, two, three!

purple.
Pink and white, green and yellow,
These are the

colours of Easter.
Pink and white Easter bunny.
Green and yellow Easter basket.
Deep purple, shiny ribbon.
These are the colours of Easter.
Pink and white Easter bunny.
Green and yellow Easter basket.
Pink and purple Easter eggs.
These are the colours of Easter

Edgar loved to color eggs
Edgar loved to dip the eggs

into bowls of bright colors.
He loved to color them with his crayons
and paint them with his fine brushes.
 "Your eggs are beautiful, Edgar," said Mrs. Bunny

hide our eggs for the children."
Edgar said, "I can't

and I won't. It will make me very sad to give away my pretty eggs."

sometimes
sharing is more fun than keeping.
Pick out your

favorite one and we'll hide the rest for the children."
"Let's see how you feel tomorrow, after the Easter egg hunt."

went outside with his mother to hide the rest of

the eggs for the children.

went outside with his mother to hide the rest of

the eggs for the children.

over.

hunted for the beautiful Easter eggs.
After the Easter egg hunt,

the children said nice things to Edgar.
Ellen said, "Edgar, these are the most beautiful eggs I ever saw."
Marcus said "Thank you, Edgar, for sharing your eggs. You will always be my best friend."
Edgar was very happy.

It makes me feel good."
"Me, too," said Mrs. Bunny.
The

End.

is an Easter
Monday sport. Hard-boiled eggs are rolled down

a hill.
 Customs differ from place to place. The winner's egg may]
be the one that rolls the farthest, survives the most rolls,
or is rolled between two pegs.

goddess Eostre found a wounded bird
and transformed it into

a hare, so that it could survive the Winter.
The hare found it could lay eggs, so it decorated these each Spring
and left them as offering to the goddess.

with a thick layer of almond paste (marzipan). A layer

of marzipan is also traditionally baked into the middle of the cake.
 Eleven balls of marzipan are placed around the top to represent the eleven true disciples (excluding Judas). Originally the simnel cake was a gift to mothers on Mothering Sunday in Mid Lent.

The Simnel cake

Easter Biscuits

Easter Biscuits are sometimes called "Cakes", and are eaten on Easter Sunday.
They contain spices, currants and sometimes grated lemon rind.

There is a very interesting story.
 Once, long ago in England,

a monk saw poor families living together in rag tens on the streets of his town.
Easter was two days away, and the monk thought to himself:
"On the day of the rebirth of our Savior families should not go hungry.
 This monk has once been a baker, so he baked a lot of buns with raisins inside.
He decorated the shiny brown tops of the buns with a cross.
Then he went out among the families and gave them the delicious buns.
 A young boy named Giles would not take even one.
"Bake me a basket fuul of buns that I can sell. I do not want charity."
 The monk looked at the boy's ragged clothes and dirty face, and though he felt sorry for the lad,
he saw that Giles had pride.
He baked the child a basket of the buns. Giles took his basket from house to house, singing a song:

Hot Cross Buns
Hot Cross Buns
One a penny, two a penny,
Hot Cross Buns,
If you have no daughters,
Give them to your sons.
Hot Cross buns.

then a wish for
happiness Today and all year through
Happy Easter

Day!

Wishing you happiness, not only
At Easter but every day
Of your life!
May Easter time
Bring the things that you like best
And may you find
Some quiet time to just
Relax and rest.