Easter Sunday is the culmination of Holy Week, and it is a festival and holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus three days after his crucifixion. The date of Easter changes every year, and several other Christian festivals fix their dates based on Easter.
During holy week Christians celebrate Palm Sunday, Holy Wednesday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday by filling churches with flowers and singing hymns and songs. However. Not all Easter customs are traditionally Christian, the Easter bunny comes from pagan origins.
The story of Easter begins with the crucifixion of Jesus on good Friday, where he was carried into a cave. The tomb was blocked by an immense stone so that nobody would steal it, and it was also guarded. On that Sunday, when some women visited the grave, they found that the rock had been removed and the tomb was empty – Jesus was later seen that day, and for days after more and more people realised that Jesus had been raised from the dead.
Here in Farringtons, we celebrate Easter with an annual chapel service which the whole school attends, and in it, we are taught the story of Easter and what it means to us. As a school, we value this service, as many pupils, such as Daniel Akpan believe ‘Its good to learn about Christian festivals as it allows us to connect with the schools traditions’.
Arman Parsa, Farringtons School
