Do Catholics celebrate Easter

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With it’s non Catholic roots, do Catholics celebrate Easter? and Why?
 
And what “non-Catholic” roots are those?

Catholics invented Easter!! 😉
 
aprilfloyd said:
With it’s non Catholic roots, do Catholics celebrate Easter? and Why?
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I’ll answer that with some questions:

Why is Easter always so close to Passover?
Why is it called “Pascha,” which literally means Passover, in every other language besides English and the Germanic languages?
Do you know what the Passover is?
Do you know Who the Lamb of God is?
 
Cat_Herder said:
I’ll answer that with some questions:

Why is Easter always so close to Passover?
Why is it called “Pascha,” which literally means Passover, in every other language besides English and the Germanic languages?
Do you know what the Passover is?
Do you know Who the Lamb of God is?
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Will need to read up, but was it not the story of a divine persecution of the Egyptians and the freedom of the Israelites from slavery. Including the nasty business of killing the first born Egyptian but not the Israelite. Not a pleasant story at all.
 
aprilfloyd said:
With it’s non Catholic roots, do Catholics celebrate Easter? and Why?
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Exactly what is your understanding of Passover? Your understanding of the Passion of the Lord and His crucifixion? His resurrection?

You seem to be missing a great deal of understanding of the history the Israelites? 🤷
 
Marie5890 said:
Exactly what is your understanding of Passover? Your understanding of the Passion of the Lord and His crucifixion? His resurrection?

You seem to be missing a great deal of understanding of the history the Israelites? 🤷
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Hence the question! duh!!
 
aprilfloyd said:
Will need to read up, but was it not the story of a divine persecution of the Egyptians and the freedom of the Israelites from slavery. Including the nasty business of killing first born Egyptian babies but not Israelite babies. Not a pleasant story at all.
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Wise to read up on the history of the Israelites. 🙂

The Last Supper was the Passover celebration.
Jesus was Jewish after all.
 
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I was thinking more of ‘Easter’ as in eggs, bunnies etc, rather than killing.
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No no no. 🙂

You need to be thinking, crucifixion, burial in the tomb, the Resurrection.

That is Catholic belief.

Not chocolate candy. :eek:
 
Oneofthewomen said:
aprilfloyd, please read this.
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So they use the term ‘Easter’ after ‘Ishtar’ but used it to commemorate the crucifixion and resurrection.

Do they also celebrate the ‘passover’, if so do you not think that is a bit, how to describe it - awful.
 
aprilfloyd said:
I was thinking more of ‘Easter’ as in eggs, bunnies etc, rather than killing.
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From Catholic Encyclopedia, which you can access form the page I linked to above.
Because the use of eggs was forbidden during Lent, they were brought to the table on Easter Day, coloured red to symbolize the Easter joy. This custom is found not only in the Latin but also in the Oriental Churches. The symbolic meaning of a new creation of mankind by Jesus risen from the dead was probably an invention of later times. The custom may have its origin in paganism, for a great many pagan customs, celebrating the return of spring, gravitated to Easter. The egg is the emblem of the germinating life of early spring. Easter eggs, the children are told, come from Rome with the bells which on Thursday go to Rome and return Saturday morning. The sponsors in some countries give Easter eggs to their god-children. Coloured eggs are used by children at Easter in a sort of game which consists in testing the strength of the shells (Kraus, Real-Encyklop die, s. v. Ei). Both coloured and uncoloured eggs are used in some parts of the United States for this game, known as “egg-picking”. Another practice is the “egg-rolling” by children on Easter Monday on the lawn of the White House in Washington.
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aprilfloyd said:
So they use the term ‘Easter’ after ‘Ishtar’ but used it to commemorate the crucifixion and resurrection.

Do they also celebrate the ‘passover’, if so do you not think that is a bit, how to describe it - awful.
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It’s only english speaking Christians that use the word Easter; in the rest of the world some variation of pascal (pacha, pasqua, etc). is used.
 
aprilfloyd said:
Why do they and the church use it?
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Why do you pose provocative questions so often?

**“With it’s non Catholic roots, do Catholics celebrate Easter? and Why?”
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"Do they also celebrate the ‘passover’, if so do you not think that is a bit, how to describe it - awful."

It seems you want to rile some folks on the forum every couple of days.

I am kind of surprised that this thread has not been reduced to “where is your proof for the existence of God?”
 
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