Resurrection Day

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I’ve noticed a large number of Protestant churches and ministers using the term Resurrection Sunday instead of the word Easter. When and why did this happen?
 
Some people believe that the term “Easter” comes from a pagan goddess of Spring and fertility known as Eostre. There is very little evidence such a goddess ever existed, but some protestants like to hop on the “It comes from paganism! We must be pure!” bandwagon and so they call Easter “Resurrection Sunday” or some variation. “Easter” probably really comes from the old Germanic words for a month which fell in Spring, arguably possibly named for a by-that-time long forgotten goddess, just as July is named, technically, for Julius Caesar. It’s only a “problem” in English and Germanic countries, since almost all the rest of the world calls it some variation of “Pascha.”
 
Thank you. Thats interesting to learn. I thought perhaps it was to distance themselves from Catholicism.
 
The only time “Easter” was used in scripture was in Acts…KJV…modern translations do not use the word “Easter” at all.

It has little to do with “distancing themselves” from Catholics…Catholicism is not really even a consideration in most Protestant thought…Catholics tend to be the only ones who believe other faith traditions think of them all the time.🙂
 
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The only time “Easter” was used in scripture was in Acts…KJV…modern translations do not use the word “Easter” at all.

It has little to do with “distancing themselves” from Catholics…Catholicism is not really even a consideration in most Protestant thought…Catholics tend to be the only ones who believe other faith traditions think of them all the time.🙂
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:(Not in my experience. I seem to attract members of fringe Protestant faiths (not yours) that are based largely not on what they believe, but rather the alleged fault they find with Catholics. I had one guy get flustered when I provided actual documented research and historical facts to counter to whole " Church of Babalyon, worshipers of Nimrod and Tammuz" garbage. He started to put up offensive fliers in our workplace that had nothing to do with his worship traditions, but had plenty of stones to throw at the Catholic and various Orthodox Churches. That stopped quickly.

I am not sure if Quakers face prejudice or not. I suspect you guys do, or at least I know you did back in the day. Catholics still face it today. It still hurts, especially when rooted in lies. There are a lot of us, and many small fringe groups that can’t make their own bones in the big bad world, try to get street cred. by attacking what they see as soft targets.

We can all be better than that.👍
 
Because they falsely think Easter is a pagan festival which they cannot prove.
 
Easter or Resurrection, the name is not important, it’s the fact itself is the most important.
 
Resurrection Sunday is the name for ordinary Sunday. It is the greatest feastday in the Church, not Christmas or Easter as many think.

If we learn what the Mass is and what it does, the more we will participate fully at Mass and experience the same fullness and power of the Resurrected Lord as on that first day…or should I say the Eighth Day 2000 years ago.

Protestants appear to use this term for Easter Sunday, a one time event. For Catholics, we receive the same Lord every single day at daily Mass.
 
Yes, in Russian every Sunday is voskressen’e which is ‘resurrection’

Them fundy boys may be on to something’ !
 
“Easter” is not an official term, though it does appear on the Vatican’s English-language home page because of its wide use. I believe the official English name for Easter Sunday is “The Solemnity of the Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ.” It’s easier to just say Easter, though. 😃
 
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I’ve noticed a large number of Protestant churches and ministers using the term Resurrection Sunday instead of the word Easter. When and why did this happen?
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When and why did what happen? There has been no seismic shift in terminology. I’m not aware that anyone is using “Resurrection Day” exclusively. People get tired of the resurrection of their Savior being overshadowed by a secular holiday that secular people think is about the Easter Bunny. So, I see no problem with someone stating that this is about the resurrection of Christ and is more than a fun holiday that we can all go out and hunt eggs on.

And by the way, I still call it Easter. I’ve never said, “Have a Blessed Resurrection Day.”
 
I just can’t stop calling it:

HE IS RISEN!!! HE IS RISEN!!! OUR LORD IS RISEN!!!

But I just dont go around saying have a Blessed HE IS RISEN!!! HE IS RISEN!!! OUR LORD IS RISEN!!! Day. :o

Maybe I should… :cool:
 
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