The Holidays

I feel like most if the holidays that Americans celebrate include Christmas,Birthdays, Halloween, Easter etc. The Holiday that has the most participants would have to be Easter. Before Easter many people do Spring cleaning, so that before Easter the house is clean and refreshed. Then the decorating of the homes begin, from new table cloths to to little Easter bunnies around the room. Typically the whole family gathers together, eating the dinner recalling the good memories, and they're plans on what they want to do next in life.The different varieties of food, course after course, you eat until you can't breathe anymore. Rule is, you can't eat anything that day until you go to church that morning for the mass with your Easter basket. The night before Easter, people decorate they're eggs in many different ways. I don't really understand why that is done, if your going to spend all that time and effort making the egg look good when your just going to have to destroy the shell to eat the egg. Not only the eggs, but the basket also contains the food that you will eat that morning after it is blessed. The Mass is a very short one lasting to about 30 minutes. Everybody then goes home, to a clean house dressed all nice and begin the Easter breakfast. Where I come from, there is a tradition called sharing of the egg. It is quite the same as what is done during Christmas, with the sharing of the bread, but this time an egg is used, since it is a symbol of Easter. After all of that is done the whole family sits down at the table and eats the blessed food. Everybody is responsible for being on they're best behavior and give a good impression of themselves and they're family. Parents urge kids not to fight or argue because it a holy day and nothing negative is supposed to happen. Unlike many Americans, Europeans do acknowledge the fact that Easter is the celebration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Christians believe that Jesus came back to life, or was raised from the dead, three days after his death on the cross. As part of the Easter season, the death of Jesus Christ by crucifixion, is commemorated on Good Friday, always the Friday just before Easter. Through his death, burial and resurrection, Jesus paid the penalty for sin, thus purchasing for all who believe in him, eternal life in Christ Jesus.