How to explain Easter to children?
Talking with your children about the life of Jesus and incorporating faith into Easter traditions will help them understand what Easter is all about. Teaching them about the love of Jesus will also help them feel comforted and not scared about the Easter story.
How to explain to a child that it is Palm Sunday?
Palm Sunday celebrates the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, the story of his passion and his death on the cross. Palm Sunday is symbolically the “gateway” at which Christians prepare to enter Holy Week and thus head into Easter.
What is celebrated on Easter Sunday?
Celebration and origin. Easter Sunday celebrates the return to life of Jesus. After the martyrdom lived by Christ that ended with his crucifixion, the Lord returned from the dead fulfilling the divine mandate of God, thus proving that he was the savior of humanity.
How should Easter be lived?
All Christian faith is centered and based on the resurrection of Jesus, and it is this event that we celebrate and confess on the feast of Easter. Confessing this implies, among many other things, nurturing the hope that it is worth living the values of the gospel, living in the style of Jesus.
What is celebrated on Palm Sunday and why?
Palm Sunday commemorates what is described in the gospels, the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, triumphantly acclaimed by a crowd as the Messiah. Jesus was riding on a donkey and his followers received him shouting “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!”.