These eggs can be hidden for children to find on Easter morning, which may be left by the Easter Bunny.

However, fasting continues throughout the following week, known as Passion Week or Holy Week, and does not end until after the Paschal Vigil early in the morning of Pascha ( Easter Sunday ).

The rule consisted of sixteen articles, which enjoined strict obedience to their prior, residence in individual cells, constancy in prayer, the hearing of Mass every morning in the oratory of the community, vows of poverty and toil, daily silence from vespers until terce the next morning, abstinence from all forms of meat except in cases of severe illness, and fasting from Holy Cross Day ( September 14 ) until the Easter of the following year.

The next day, the Thursday morning in Easter week, while the crusaders held mass, the Cumans again ran up to their tents.

Kelly Hrudey stopped 73 shots on goal while Pat LaFontaine scored at 8: 47 of the fourth overtime — and at 1: 56 a. m. on Easter Sunday morning.

The attack was originally planned for the morning of 8 April ( Easter Sunday ), but it was postponed for 24 hours at the request of the French.

The film's screenwriter, C. Gardner Sullivan, said he received the inspiration for the film on Easter Sunday morning in 1915.

* The service was to be celebrated on the night leading to Easter Sunday instead of Holy Saturday morning ;

The Easter Vigil service that used to be held in morning of Holy Saturday was moved to the night that leads to Easter Sunday and many changes were made to the content.

He was in Dublin early on Easter Monday morning to meet his brother Dr. Anthony MacBride who was arriving from Westport to be married on the Wednesday.

It is used by the local St Andrews churches for their Easter morning service.

When the principal services of Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and the Easter Vigil were celebrated in the morning, the office of Matins and Lauds of each day was celebrated on the evening of the preceding day in the service known as Tenebrae ( Latin, " Darkness ").

Thus, apart from the Chrism Mass for the blessing of the Holy Oils that the diocesan bishop may celebrate on the morning of Holy Thursday, but also on some other day close to Easter, the only Mass on this day is the evening Mass of the Lord's Supper, which inaugurates the period of three days, known as the Easter Triduum, that includes Good Friday ( seen as beginning with the service of the preceding evening ), Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday up to evening prayer on that day.

Then a procession takes place circling around the outside of the church, recreating the journey of the Myrrh Bearers as they journeyed to the Tomb of Jesus on the first Easter morning.

Throughout Holy Week, there is a paschal service that is conducted every evening, starting Sunday night ( eve of Monday ), and every morning, up until Easter.

Navy Chaplain Milton Gianulis conducts an Easter morning Orthodox Liturgy candlelight service aboard USS Harry S. Truman ( CVN 75 )

On Easter Sunday, March 26, they attended the morning services at All Souls ' Church.

In Germany, people go out into the fields early in the morning and hold Easter egg races.

The Mass of the Lord's Supper and the Easter Vigil were celebrated in the morning of Thursday and Saturday respectively, and Holy Week and Lent were seen as ending only on the approach of Easter Sunday.

Instead -- and not just to prove my objectivity -- I hasten to report that it's a highly amusing film which probably does a fairly accurate job of reporting on the Easter vacation shenanigans of collegians down in Fort Lauderdale, and that it seems to come to grips quite honestly with the moral problem that most commonly vexes youngsters in this age group -- that is to say, sex.

The Venerable Bede says in The Reckoning of Time that this month Eostur is the root of the word Easter.

* Earliest day on which Ascension Day can fall, while June 3 is the latest ; celebrated 40 days after Easter ( Christianity ), and its related observances

* There then follows the Frühjahrsmarkt ( Spring market ) two weeks before Easter, when all the shops in the town are permitted to open on Sunday ( which is normally prohibited in Bavaria ).

* 1916 – Easter Rising: Martial law in Ireland is lifted and the rebellion is officially over with the surrender of Irish nationalists to British authorities in Dublin.

In the seventh week after Easter May 878, around Whitsuntide, Alfred rode to ‘ Egbert's Stone ’ east of Selwood, where he was met by " all the people of Somerset and of Wiltshire and of that part of Hampshire which is on this side of the sea is, west of Southampton Water, and they rejoiced to see him ".

* Earliest day on which Store Bededag or General Prayer Day can fall, while May 13 is the latest ; observed on the 4th Friday after Easter day.

A milestone in the evolution of the canon of New Testament books is his Easter letter from Alexandria, written in 367, usually referred to as his 39th Festal Letter.

Since the 2002 edition, the Apostles ' Creed is included in the Roman Missal with the indication, " Instead of the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed, especially during Lent and Easter time, the baptismal Symbol of the Roman Church, known as the Apostles ’ Creed, may be used.

From then on retail trade is only restricted on public holidays ( New Years Day, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Easter Monday, Day of Prayer, Ascension Day, Whit Sunday, Whit Monday, Christmas Day and Boxing Day ) and on Constitution Day, Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve ( on New Year's Eve from 3 pm only ).

This goal, of showing the movement towards unity, explains Bede's animosity towards the British method of calculating Easter: much of the Historia is devoted to a history of the dispute, including the final resolution at the Synod of Whitby in 664.

Any codex of Bede's Easter cycle is normally found together with a codex of his " De Temporum Ratione ".

Bock is historically associated with special occasions, often religious festivals such as Christmas, Easter or Lent.

In Austria, bockbier is traditionally brewed only around Christmas and Easter, when nearly every brewery brews its own bock.

The practice of bedecking the May Bush / Dos Bhealtaine with flowers, ribbons, garlands and coloured egg shells is found among the Gaelic diaspora, most notably in Newfoundland, and in some Easter traditions on the East Coast of the United States.

There is here given the whole service for every Sunday and week-day, the proper antiphons, responsories, hymns, and especially the course of daily Scripture-reading, averaging about twenty verses a day, and ( roughly ) arranged thus: for Advent, Isaiah ; Epiphany to Septuagesima, Pauline Epistles ; Lent, patristic homilies ( Genesis on Sundays ); Passion-tide, Jeremiah ; Easter to Whitsun, Acts, Catholic epistles and Apocalypse ; Whitsun to August, Samuel and Kings ; August to Advent, Wisdom books, Maccabees, Prophets.

Calculating the calendar of a previous year ( for the Gregorian calendar taking account of the week ) is a relatively easy matter when Easter Sunday is not included on the calendar.

However, calculating for Easter Sunday is difficult because the calculation depends on the full moon cycle.

There are only 14 different calendars when Easter Sunday is not involved.

However, when Easter Sunday is included, there are 70 different calendars ( two for each date of Easter ).

The Lenten period of the Liturgical year Church calendar, being the six weeks directly before Easter, was marked by fasting and other pious or penitential practices.

Upon his arrival, Jessup was surprised to learn that a paperback copy of his UFO book had been mailed to the ONR in a manila envelope marked " Happy Easter.

Easter was also an important Holiday to the ancient Pagans of Europe in celebration of the Vernal Equinox that marked the changing of the season from Winter to Spring.

The year 1966 marked the 50th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising — when Irish republicans seized key buildings in Dublin and declared an independent Irish Republic.

Monday, April 1, marked the end of the Easter Riots, which totaled over 150 casualties and $ 300, 000 in damage.

It is believed that buns marked with a cross were eaten by Saxons in honour of the goddess Eostre ( the cross is thought to have symbolised the four quarters of the moon ); " Eostre " is probably the origin of the name " Easter ".

" The original was and is an Easter Hymn ... it is marked in carol books as " traditional ", a delightful word which often conceals ignorance.

The Sunday itself was often called Rogation Sunday as a result, and marked the start of a three-week period ( ending on Trinity Sunday ), when Roman Catholic and Anglican clergy did not solemnize marriages ( two other such periods of marital prohibition also formerly existed, one beginning on the first Sunday in Advent and continuing through the Octave of Epiphany, or 13 January, and the other running from Septuagesima until the Octave of Easter, the Sunday after Easter ).

This fixture marked the start of the " Baa-Baas '" annual South Wales tour from their " spiritual home " of Penarth, which also encompassed playing Cardiff RFC on the Saturday, Swansea RFC on Easter Monday and Newport RFC on the Tuesday.

This date also marked the beginning of the period of fasting, except on Sundays and ending on Easter Sunday, that was stipulated for Carmelites in the Carmelite Rule of St. Albert of 1247.

In the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox churches, Oriental Orthodox churches, the Anglican Communion, and Lutheran churches, the Easter Vigil is the most important service of public worship and Mass of the liturgical year ; in the West it is the first celebration of the Gloria during the fifty-day long celebration of Easter, marked by the first use since the beginning of Lent of the exclamatory " Alleluia ", a distinctive feature of the Easter season.

The riot following the Official Republican Easter parade in March 1970 marked the first time that the army used ' snatch squads ', who rushed into the Bogside wielding batons to make arrests.

: None of us can ever forget how in that last Easter Sunday of his life, the Holy Father, marked by suffering, came once more to the window of the Apostolic Palace and one last time gave his blessing Urbi et Orbi.

A game played on Easter Monday which shares common elements with medieval ball games played during celebrations marked by the Christian calendar.