Easter

     Jesus rose from the dead on the third day after his crucifixion.  His resurrection is celebrated on Easter Sunday.  Easter makes the end of Lent, a forty-day period of fasting, prayer, and penance.  The last week of the Lent is called Holy Week.  It contains Good Friday, commemorating the crucifixion and death of Jesus. During Lent, many strict Catholics will give up eating meat on Fridays.  Meat is also not consumed on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday as well.  Catholics between the ages of 18 and 59 are obligated to fast on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday.  In addition, all Catholics 14 years old and older must abstain from meat on Ash Wednesday, Good Friday and all other Fridays of Lent. 
      Easter is a holiday not fixed in the relation to the civil calendar.  It occurs during the Spring, either March or April.  The method for determining the date of Easter Sunday is based on the lunisolar calendar. 
     Easter customs vary across the Christian world, but decorating Easter eggs is common among everyone.  History.com says, "Easter egg hunts and egg rolling are two popular egg-related traditions.  In the U.S., the White House Easter Egg Roll, a race in which children push decorated, hard-boiled eggs across the White House lawn, is an annual event held the Monday after Easter.  The first official White House egg roll occurred in 1878, when Rutherford B. Hayes was president.  The event has no religious significance, although some people have considered egg rolling symbolic of the stone blocking Jesus' tomb being rolled away, leading to his resurrection." 
     Much like Easter eggs, the Easter bunny most likely has nothing to do with the religious observance of the holiday.  According to an article from Discovery News, the symbol of the Easter bunny hails from Pagan traditions.  The bunny represents the re-birth of life with the coming of the spring season and the blooming flowers