Are you planning anything special at Easter or are there special events at Easter that you have witnessed on your travels?
Celebrating Easter
It’s always fascinated me that the date of the birth of Christ at Christmas is defined while the date of his crucifixion varies from year to year.
As they say: Easter Sunday falls on ‘the first Sunday after the Full Moon on, or after, the March Equinox’; or anywhere from March 22 to April 25 (a moveable feast, related to Passover).
Determining the date of Easter by astronomical algorithms can prove rather complex and the Eastern Orthodox churches decided not to follow the same formula.
Colourful Festivals at Easter
While Palm Sunday is the week before Easter Sunday, Good Friday is the day that interests Christian pilgrims around the world.
From Israel and Rome, to the Americas and Asia, it is the last journey of Jesus that is re-enacted.
I used to make a point of photographing festivals on my travels; Holy Week in The Philippines and Easter in Guatemala were both published in The Adventure Travel Magazine (many years ago).
How about you?