The Night Before Easter

"Twas the night before Easter, just before dawn, Not a creature was stirring out on the lawn."The Easter bunny takes center stage in this delightful spin on Clement C. Moore's beloved poem that will send families hopping to the bookstore for an Easter treat sweeter than any sugar plum!

A collection of twenty-four short stories and comic sketches by Anton Chekhov

From Jesus praying in the garden to the cross and resurrection in an easy-to-read, poetic style that will have children and adults alike both entertained and informed on the most important event to ever occur.

At Eastertime, the most important holiday in the Christian world, religious processions in many Latin American countries pass over ornate street "carpets" fashioned from colored sawdust, flowers and fruit. Children in Finland and Sweden dress as "Easter witches." In the Caribbean, those who swim on Good Friday risk bad luck. In the Philippines, some penitents volunteer to be crucified. In some European countries, Easter Monday is the day for dousing women with water. With 240 entries, this book explores these and scores of other unusual and sometimes bizarre international Holy Week customs, both sacred and secular, from pilgrimages to Jerusalem to classic seasonal films and television specials.

Make Easter and Pentecost meaningful for young people. Help them experience the joy and celebration of the Easter season, and cheerfully proclaim, "Alleluia! He is risen!" Bring the Scriptures alive and give young adolescents creative ways to explore, pray, and reflect on the salvation story, so they are able to focus on the profound mystery of God among us. The leader's guide has nine faith sessions, as well as an extended session, to help young people enter fully into the expectation and the joy of the Easter and Pentecost seasons. In addition to its fully developed sessions, this guide has strategies for encouraging real participation in the liturgical and community life of the parish as it ritualizes and celebrates the Easter season.

He wanted to combine the two loves and create something he could share with his grandchildren that would enlighten them and make a very important part of the story of Christ more accessible for their young minds.

The study assesses the main issues in the current debate about the early history of Pesach and Easter and provides new insights into the development of these two festivals. The author argues that the prescriptions of Exodus 12 provide the celebration of the Pesach in Jerusalem with an etiological background in order to connect the pilgrim festival with the story of the Exodus. The thesis that the Christian Easter evolved as a festival against a Jewish form of celebrating Pesach in the second century and that the development of Easter Sunday is dependent upon this custom is endorsed by the author’s close study of relevant texts such as the Haggada of Pesach; the “Poem of the four nights” in the Palestinian Targum Tradition; the structure of the Easter vigil.