Easter Holiday Index

Twins hunting eggs at the White House.

       Easter, the festival commemorating the resurrection of Christ, observed in many branches of the Christian Church. By the first Christians it was regarded as continuing the feast of the Passover, at which the paschal lamb, a symbol of Christ, was sacrificed. Hence its name in Greek and in the Romance languages is taken from the Hebrew Pesach, meaning Passover.

       The English name comes from the Anglo-Saxon Eostre, a pagan goddess of light or spring, whose festival was celebrated in April. There was a long dispute in the Christian Church as to the proper time for holding Easter, the Christians of the East celebrating it on the same day as that on which the Jewish Passover fell, that is the fourteenth of Nisan, while the majority of the Church celebrated it on the Sunday next after this day. The controversy was decided by the Council of Nice in 325, which fixed Easter on the first Sunday after the full moon which happens upon or next after March 21. If the full moon happens on a Sunday, Easter is the Sunday after.

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The Celebration of Easter: Much of this content may be used for creating newsletters for parents and teachers. Some of it is good for child recitations. I will be adding puzzles and paper crafts to these posts that are Easter/Spring themed as well. Enjoy!

1. The First Easter from St. Luke 
2. Easter Even - poem by Christina G. Rossetti 
3. Easter Songs in Verse and For Coloring
   
4. Easter Day in Rome - poem by Oscar Wilde 
5. Easter message with chics...
   
6. The Story of Easter Eggs - poem by Christoph Von Schmid 
7. "Easter Greetings" for all God's creatures... 
8. "Easter Lilies" and Window Boxes Too... - poem by Susan Coolidge
9. "Mary" and a Primrose paper cut- poem by Margaret E. Sangster  
10. Why I Love Jesus
    
11. Easter Singers in the Vorarlburg from - "Chamber's Book of Days"
12. Easter Joys, Spring Redresses Nature
    
13. Mary's Easter  - poem by Marie Mason 
14. To An Easter Lily 
15. Medieval Easter Plays - by Henry Barret Hinckley  
16. The Little Boy
    
17. The Day of Victory - poem by Rachel Capen Schauffler 
18. The Stories I Like 
19. The Stone of the Sepulcher - poem by Susan Coolidge 
20. Easter Bells
    
21. At Easter Time  - poem by Laura E. Richards 
22. Easter Message
    
23. Easter Dawn - poem by Frances Ridley Havergal  
24. The First Easter
    
25. Easter Organ Music - poem by Harvey B. Gaul 
26. My Easter Bunny
    
27. Song of Easter - poem by Celia Thaxter 
28. Poem "I Wonder" and Butterfly Paper Craft
    
29. Nature's Easter Music - poem by Lucy Larcom 
30. Easter Secret 
31. How Moravians Observe Easter - poem by Charles H, Rominger  
32. Easter's Brightness
    
33. Poem "Awakening" and A Tulip Border Craft - poem by Rose Terry Cook 
34. "Tis Easter Day".
    
35. On Easter Morn - poem by Edith M. Thomas 
36. "Jesus Knew" and Palm Leaf Paper Cut Border
    
37. Russian Easters - Abridged from The Saturday Review 
38. Easter Day
    
39. An Easter Carol - poem by Christina G. Rossetti  
40. Easter Message
    
41. Easter Even - poem by Margaret French Patton
42. Easter Lily 
43. The Barren Easter - poem by Clinton Scollard
44. A Madrigal - poem by Clinton Scollard 
45. The Bells of Kremlin  - by Augustus J. G. C. Hare 
46. Of The Lord's Day and Easter - by William Cave 
47. Poem "Compensation" and Daffodil Border Craft
48. Singing and tweeting all "Easter Week"  - poem by Charles Kingsley
49. The Apparition of Christ to His Mother - poem by Mrs. Jameson
50. Easter - poem by Genevieve M. J. Irons
51. Easter Day - poem by Josephine Rice Creelman 
52. A Glimpse of Easter in the Azores - by Henry Sandham 
53. Egg Rolling at The White House
54. Easter Morning - by Edmund Spenser
55. Easter Wings - poem by George Herbert
56. An Easter Greeting To Every Child Who Loves  Alice" - by Lewis Carroll
57. Easter Lilies - poem by Mary Lowe Dickinson 
58. After Easter - poem by Mary Lowe Dickinson 
59. A letter from Grandpa about Easter eggs and ducks  
60. Easter Sacraments - poem by Henry Park Schauffler
61. The Resurrection, Or Easter Day - poem by George Herbert
62. Easter  - poem by George Herbert
63. The Easter Joy - poem by Margaret E. Sangster
64. Seek Those Things Which Are Above - poem by William Newell
65. Woman's Easter - poem by Lucy Larcom
66. Day Dawn - A Quiet Talk On Easter by S. D. Gordon
67. The Crescent And The Cross - poem by Thomas Baily Aldrich
68. The Easter Message - by Charles E. Hesselgrave
69. An Easter Song - poem by Susan Coolidge
70. Egg Hunt Silhouettes and Vintage Coloring