Easter Eggs, Christmas etc. and Paganism

[CesarAugustus]

Also, bear in mind that Easter moves with the lunar calendar, not the solar calendar. I was just looking at Wikipedia, and they say that Easter can fall on any one of 35 days of the calendar year. That timing for Easter makes it a lousy solar holiday. And of course we do have very good reason to fix the timing of Easter as we do, given that Jesus died right around the time of Passover.

Christmas is very different–you can make a much better case for the dating being inspired by the solar calendar, as it is fixed on December 25, which is right around the time where days start getting longer again.

About December 25th:

touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=16-10-012-v

God Bless you.

 

[EasterJoy]

Or perhaps the God who created everything that is, made it so that the foods that symbolize His great love and mercy in various different ways just happen to be fresh at that season of the year when His Church celebrates those particular feasts.

I think we tend to think of the world, and the cycles of harvest and planting, as being separate from God, or just kind of doing their own thing without His intervention, when in fact it is God who is causing the growth and making the seasons come and go.

I think the imagination of God is so far beyond ours that we can barely scratch the surface of the ways in which creation might be used to remind us of Him and His many kindnesses. All creation gives Him glory just as it is, and our creativity displays a infinitesimally small* fraction* of the possibilities seen at the moment of Creation by the mind of God.

So yes, I agree with you. Whatever season we have to celebrate, something is provided to celebrate it in a way that is in keeping with both the season and the celebration itself. The limitation is our imagination to see it.