Armenian Apostolic Church clelebrates easter

The Armenian Apostolic Church is celebrating Easter on April 24.

According to the Canonical gospels, Jesus rose from the dead on the third day after his crucifixion. His resurrection is celebrated on Easter Day or Easter Sunday in the Christian world.

Easter marks the end of Lent, a forty-day period of fasting, prayer, and penance.

After a holly mass celebrating Christ’s resurrection, Armenian families traditionally gather around the Easter table whose symbols are the traditional red wine, the red Easter egg, rice pilaf with raisins and fish. Rice symbolizes the earth, while the raisins are the Christian people that make the world a sweeter place. Fish used to be the secret sign of Christians in the Christian Persecution Era (I-IV centuries AD). Wine symbolized the blood of Jesus Christ, the savior of mankind.  Read more... (198 words)

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