The Independent-News, Volume 89, Number 10, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 4 March 1965 — Page 4

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— TH£ ^DEPENDENT NEWS — Mar. 4, 1965

Easter And The Easter Season

You can look to the sky inStead of your calendar to find the date of Easter. The full moon is the key to determining the date of Easter, which can come as early as Maxell 22 or as late as April 25 Not just any full moor, of course, but the first one aftei the vernal equinoa. according to New Standaid Encyclopedia, mus year. Easter is scheduled for Ay>nl 18. Other confusing dates, such is Ash Wednesday can aUo be figured out easily Ash Wedneshy. March 3rd this year, comes 40 days before Easter, excluding Sundays It is the beginning of ’ent and of the East r season. In the early church ashes were sprinkled on the h ads of j ns who repented their str.s Ash Wednesday The ashes u< e obta;n<d fro'i tl o burning r palms ( in^s'i i* "d on Palm ; !i Uy of the previ us year : vine to rem:i I the faithful ♦ • t "i isn is but dust Ir he Christian Ci urch Lent is the period of penitence, ; i iyer and fasting in preparation for Eastet The I nten soason extend^ from V Wednesday until Holy Sit unlay, the day before Easter and commemorates Jesus Christ's 40 days of fasting and prayer in the desert During I> nt. which comes from an old Fn li -h Word for spring, Christians are required or encouraged to fast, avoid amusements, and engage in spe<ial worship. H<dv Week in the Christian church is the week preceding Easter and is observed as a penod of devotion t • the last days of Jesus Chri t and to h' death on the cross Holy Week, the most important of ‘he Chris, tian year, begins with Palm Sunday which commeorates the triumphal entry of J"sus into Jerusa’j»m. Mmuidy - or Holy - Thursday, is the anniversary of the East Supper, and Good Friday recalls the Crucifixion, Holy Saturday is the dav before Easter and the end of Ixmt. Easter is the festival celebrating the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. It svmho’iz«6 the keystone of Christ’an faith and hone -the Immortal’tv of man The crucifixion of Jesus occur-

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red dunng the Jewish Passover The early Christians. being Jewish, observed Easter as part of Passover loiter. as non-Jews came into the church, some Christians insisted that E ister should be co’ebrated on Sunday, the day of Resurrection. Western churches generally celebrated the festival on Sunday, while eastern churches followed the Jqw.sh tradition New Standard Encyclopedia points out that the first ecumenical council, the Coun* d of Nicaea, in 325 dec ded that Easter should always be on Sunday and adopt' 1 the rule fur establishing the date. Easter derived its name from Ea tre. the Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring And many of the customs of the E stcr festival were incur; orat' d f' m h ithen rituals w* '* omir." the :pr ng sea in The egg hr ' ’ g been a symb> of E। V ■' Bet 1 ng before the b rth of Gin st. the ar. .ent Egw’ans and Pi rs.an had the custom of colorin: and eating eggs during the r Miring festival as a symbol of fertility and of r«' ‘wt'd I.: Tile <•••!- tins par iphra *d this 't-r :< nt tdgr:f.canoe of th eg- v a symb 4 of new li'e and egg became a symbol of r aa ro - ti- <n. The sunri e s< ~v •. so much a part of F ister, i a’ . rooted in ant.q.;.tv At il’g to an old supers'dion. the ■•n ri ■ ng on E is’er morning danced in the heavens. Tlds bel of has been tra el to th- o’d heathen festival when the -p • ‘ators dance j in honor of ti n «m Tre Easter Parad-’ -> eming entirely world’y, may be traced to an oh! bc’ief that it was unlucky n< t to wear some new article d clothing or ro^onn’ adornment on Faster Or it may stem from the univer al fee’ing that the Eastertide Is the time of casting off the o’d and the beginning of the now And those families who, by custom, eat ham on Faster Sunday, are unwittingly fol- -- win" an o’d prartir© of the Human Catholics of England, whn ate a gammon of bacon on Faster to show their contempt for the Jews, to whom pork is forbidden.

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Mere Than Snow In The Air

It l» news to no one that Lutt week end found a tremendous blizzard hilt.ng not only our immediate area, but all areas around. This paralyzing storm kn<« ked out about every r< ud in the area It Is no rarity when schools are closed due to the bad weather, especially If the sch >ols involved have country children to any degree. However, the weather is king whi n it stops most people from making it tp work. Anyone working out of their immediate area last we* k. found that unexpected holiday Even the recreation facilities that usually tempt a person had to go without the usual partnaam, SaptkMv> al basketball toumies {were postponed. the second time tn many years the weather was thia severe In all. just about everything reverted bark to the individual families for awhile. In time of emergency (and many know this as the only emergency tn their lives) Hk«i this, it is strange how personalities change People begin to get along a day or two without their regular habits. They chip in and help each other in many instances where in ordinary times they wouldn't give consideration to the other person They get help in return if needed possibly by people that they least expo-t it from at any time Getting away from the regular pattern of life for even a day or two can often make people sc- things in a different light And to top it off, in a situation like the extreme adverse w*eather that hit last week, everyone ta’ks to everyone . . . about the weather Th<- adverse conditions makes for pleasant conversation with everyone and anyone Maybe some real good does •v>mo from a few days of hardship, after a’l. And anyway it was different and kind of fun fora day or so A task fin h<-«l t"l»v is worth dozens planned for tomorrow. CONFI’SION A 1 ttt“ theoretical wisdom HOUK'’vi turns into a mass of practical folly. KTEI’PING STONE The th-s of friendship start to idlp the minute a man begins pulling on them. ।

People on the up-grade art those who keep on the level. - -1

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A littk* boy went to his uncle's garage: "Could you lend me a few gallons of gas?” "What do you need gas for, my boy?” "The school is burning "