Are Easter eggs related to Jesus Christ?

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It’s a beautiful folk tradition, but there’s no saving ritual. Just a tradition.
 
it does, and the bunny represents fertility.
although traditionally pagans did use these symbols, catholics are not in the business of throwing the baby out with the bathwater. we can still use and appreciate cultural and formerly religious traditions and symbols eand even give them new meanings sometimes as long as there is nothing about them that inherently goes against christianity
 
Its the other way around.

JC is related to the Easter Bunny.
Both are very old symbols of new life.

BTW genuflections, hands in prayer and many other small Catholic customs are pagan in origin too.
I hope that isn’t a problem for you.
 
I see nothing innately wrong with bunnies as a symbol of Easter, but I try to stick with mostly lambs (at least, for animals). You can’t find as much decor for lambs, but it feels more symbolic of Christ to me. Again, not that I see anything sinful about rabbit use…

Eggs are good new life symbols, so they are one of my non-animal decor themes for Easter. I read a story one time about a catechist who had her children go outside to fill up plastic eggs with Easter symbols they could find. One had a flower, one a butterfly, One child came back and presented his egg. It was empty. “Just like the tomb” he said. Wise kid…
 
No, the “Easter hare” was one of many German joke or personification figures associated with serious Christian holy days. The Lent fairy or Lent witch rewarded kids who did abstinence and punished those who snuck meat. Other fairies punished employers who insisted that servants work on holy festival days, or rewarded those who went to church.

In late medieval/early modern times, the Easter hare (“Osterhaase”) mischievously stole eggs, colored them, and hid them in the woods or meadows. Kids were sent out to recover the eggs as a fun Easter game.

(There were already colored and decorated Easter eggs all over Europe and Byzantine Asia, for over a thousand years before the Osterhaase was invented. They celebrated the end of Lenten fasting from eggs and dairy, and date back to early Christianity in the form of the “red egg” custom. Red baked or simmered eggs, cooked overnight in the hearth ashes or a heated oven with the fire put out, were a common Jewish Sabbath food for thousands of years. So Easter eggs are old and not pagan.)
 
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When creation is used to give glory to God, that IS its proper use, because HE is the CREATOR of EVERYTHING.

What I tell my friends who ask if incense or the use of candles etc. are pagan practices, is that NOTHING rightfully belongs to pagans/false gods/etc, because to make such a claim is giving MORE consideration to a false god - INSTEAD of God Who is our ACTUAL Creator - AS IF ANYTHING rightfully belongs to a false god! Which of course it doesn’t, and which God forbids us to do.
 
Today’s Easter service in the Roman Catholic Church in Ukraine. As you can see, the Roman Catholics in Ukraine also have a tradition of Easter basket
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The Orthodox Christians today also have the solemn divine services.
The Palm Sunday is a Christian moveable feast that falls on the Sunday before Easter. The feast commemorates Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem, an event mentioned in each of the four canonical Gospels.
This photo I did today at the Sunday service of the Orthodox Church at the military hospital.
Well, next Sunday in the Orthodox churches the Easter service the whole night until the morning.
According to tradition, in the Easter basket have to be Easter eggs.
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It’s folklore–have fun with it!
Here’s a 🐣 and a 🐇 and some 🍫🍫:chocolate_bar:for you to enjoy (sadly they don’t have a peeps emoji)
 
Pious tradition holds that she was at a banquet with a high ranking official, and she began relating her experience at the REsurrection fo Christ. The host, not believing her, was holding a boiled egg, and he held it aloft saying “Jesus no more rose from the dead than this egg in my hand is red.”
And immediately it turned blood red.
My daughter chose Mary Magdelene as her Confirmation Saint, and the medal she received depicts Mary Magdelene holding up a red egg. The medal is sterling, and the egg is done in enamel.

This , from Orthodo Wiki:

Paschal eggs
According to tradition, during a dinner with the emperor Tiberius Caesar, Mary Magdalene was speaking about Christ’s Resurrection. Caesar scoffed at her, saying that a man could rise from the dead no more than the egg in her hand could turn red. Immediately, the egg turned red. Because of this, icons of Mary Magdalene sometimes depict her holding a red egg. Also, this is believed to be an explanation for dyeing eggs red at Pascha.
 
Thank you for that. I have learned something new.
 
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