The festive occasion of Easter is celebrated through exchange of Easter gifts and Easter greeting cards. Easter eggs are one of the popular symbols of this festive occasion world over.
Occasion of Easter also indicates to the season of the church year referred to as Eastertide or the Easter Season. By tradition, the Easter Season spanned for about forty days from Easter Day until the Ascension Day. However, at present it formally spans for the fifty days until the Pentecost. The first week of the Easter Season is referred to as ‘Easter Week’ or the ‘Octave of Easter’.
The celebration of Easter also indicates to the conclusion of Lent, a period of prayer and sacrament. Festival of Easter is phrased as a transferable feast for the reason that it is not preset in relation to the Gregorian calendar. This festival usually is placed at some point between late March and late April each year that follows the cycle of the moon. subsequent to a number of centuries of disagreement, all churches agreed to the computation of the Alexandrian Church or the Coptic Church that Easter is the 1st Sunday following the 1st fourteenth day of the moon usually on or later than the ecclesiastical vernal equinox.
