Bidyot Bhowmik
The Good Friday and Happy Easter Festival ||| Bidyot Bhowmik
Christians across the globe are celebrating the holy festival of Easter with due solemnity. Church services, necessary rituals with religious fervour which started on 15th April with Good Friday up to 18th April with Easter Monday in 2022. Easter celebration generally include Church services, festive family meals, Easter eggs decoration and gift giving.
Easter includes Good Friday or Holy Friday, Easter Sunday and Easter Monday. There is a national holiday for Easter in the whole of Europe, in the continent of North and South America, Australia, New Zealand, Parts of Africa and Asia. Christianity is the largest religion on earth with 2.382 billion population. Good Friday commemorates the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and his death at Calvary. Accounts of the Christian Gospel state that the son of God, Jesus Christ was put to death sentence by crucifixion by the then Roman Governor Pontius Pilate after Jesus was inhumanly betrayed by Judas. Easter Sunday is a festival and holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, described in the New Testament having occurred on the third day of his burial after his crucifixion by the Romans at Calvary approximately in 30 A.D.. Known as “Easter Sunday,” this day commemorates Jesus’ resurrection and is celebrated worldwide. After Jesus was crucified, this day came three days later. While Happy Easter is observed on a different day every year, it will be celebrated on April 17, 2022, for the first time. Christ’s triumph over death is commemorated on this day, which is significant in the Christian calendar. It is customary for individuals to fast on this day and go to church with their families.
The holy book of the Christians is the Bible. In the Bible, the New Testament states that the Resurrection of Jesus Christ which Easter celebrates, is the true foundation of Christian faith. Easter is the celebration of the resurrection of Jesus from the tomb on the third day after his crucifixion. Easter is the fulfilled prophecy of the Messiah who would be persecuted, die for our sins, and rise on the third day. The resurrection established Jesus as the powerful Son of God and is cited as proof that God will judge the world in righteousness and justice. For those who trust in Jesus’ death and resurrection, “death is swallowed up in celestial victory by the resurrection or rebirth. Any person who chooses to follow Jesus receives “a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.” Through faith in the working of God, those who follow Jesus are spiritually resurrected with him so that they may walk in a new way of life and receive eternal salvation. Through his death, burial, and resurrection, Jesus paid the penalty for sin, thus purchasing for all who believe in him, eternal life in Jesus Christ.
Pope Francis who is the head of the Roman Catholic Church which has 1.345 billion followers in the world during an Easter service at St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican made a plea for peace in his annual Easter message in front of more than 50,000 people at Vatican City on Sunday, the 17th April. The pontiff, 85, speaking from the central balcony of St. Peter’s Square, asked for peace in the “senseless” war in Ukraine and other areas of the world, referencing the “troubling” possibility of nuclear war.
Pope Francis said during his Urbi et Orbi blessing. “We have seen all too much blood, all too much violence.” He further said, “Our hearts, too, have been filled with fear and anguish, as so many of our brothers and sisters have had to lock themselves away in order to be safe from bombing.” Pope Francis in his annual Easter address called for peace in Ukraine, warning that the conflict could lead to nuclear war.The pope’s message came after he celebrated Easter Mass in the square, which was packed with people for the holiday, the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began in early 2020, In 2020 and 2021, Francis celebrated Easter Mass inside the Basilica, the first time with no congregation and the second time in 2021with a small group of the faithful
Wishing all of you all the best from the bottom of my heart on this holy festival of Easter.
-Columnist, writer and advisor to CBNA, Montreal, Canada, 16th April, 2022
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