Easter or Resurection Sunday

I have come to a point in my life that I no longer like "Easter".

It is not the season or the reason we celebrate but what Easter has become. In the US many people have walked away from the reason for the season. Just as Christmas has lost much of the meaning over the last hundred years so has Easter. As time has passed people forget the symbolism behind things. The beauty of the symbol of the dyed egg can be traced back to an early church who would dying eggs red to symbolize the blood of Christ, the egg itself was looked at as a symbol of the tomb of Christ with them being hard and stone like but life comes from within. So many people in the US say, Easter we need bunnies and chicks and pastels and all these fun things instead looking at what are we really needing to look at.

This is why I don't like "Easter," I want to move away from using "Easter" and refer to this celebration as Resurrection Sunday. As Christ's bride we are to point to our bridegroom, we need to take back our celebrations and not let the world corrupt and take meaning from God. As I was finishing up a course on the Gospels as we finish the Lent season and move into the Easter season I am reminded of the sacrifice that Christ made. I have been at many churches that don't spend much time on the last week of Christ's life, many churches look at Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday and and maybe Good Friday and  that is the end of it. I propose that we take back this entire week, I feel that we need to find a way to each day of this Holy week to continually draw more attention to Christ throughout the week and by exploring the different things happening on each day of the week leading up to Christ's crucifixion and spend time looking at how he gave up his life and it was not taken from him. There are so many aspects of his last week of life that we over look and don't give the proper emphasis. This is why I want to move away from the use of Easter and move to a Passion week with a focus on Resurrection Sunday.