The Easter holidays are celebrated all over the world with carnivals, masquerades, and feasts.  The name for Easter in some languages comes from the Hebrew Pesah. The Italians call Easter ,  Pasqua; the Spaniards, Pascua, and the French, Paques.  These celebrations reach a peak of gaiety on Shrove Tuesday, more than six weeks before Easter.  On Ash Wednesday, many Christians start a solemn 40-day period of fast and prayer called Lent.  It recalls Christ’s 40-day fast in the wilderness.  The last week of Lent is called Holy Week and honors the events of the last week of Christ’s life on earth.  It begins on Palm Sunday which is named for the palms that people spread before Jesus as He entered Jerusalem in triumph.  

Easter egg rolls are celebrated in several countries.   The most famous Easter egg rolling takes place on the White House lawn in Washington, D.C.  Thousands of persons gather to roll Easter eggs on the lawn on the Monday after Easter.  President Hayes started the custom in 1879.  Easter eggs often symbolize the new life that begins in the springtime of the year.  In addition, children attend Easter egg hunts throughout the United States.  Easter rabbits bring Easter eggs, according to folk stories told to children.   Rabbits have been a symbol of birth and new life for many thousands of years.  Thus, rabbits are the symbols for the celebration of the new life Easter represents.

Now, to those folks who are complaining about Easter egg hunts which are being held all over the world, we ask you to let your children learn how to hunt Easter eggs instead of  learning how to strap a bomb on their bodies at an early age and blow up human beings which is clearly a case of child abuse in the worst sense. Where is the United Nations?  You stated it was a violation of your constitutional rights for  an invitational notice for an Easter egg hunt which was distributed at your public school to be sent to your home.  You have forgotten you are in America, not your home country!  Either adapt or pack up!  You are the guest!

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