Easter Customs….
n“The reasons for
celebrating our major feasts when we do are many and varied. In general, however, it is true
that many of them have at
least an indirect connection with the
pre-Christian [pagan] feasts celebrated about the same time of year — feasts centering around the harvest,
the rebirth of the sun at the winter
solstice (now Dec. 21, but
Dec. 25 in the old Julian calendar), the renewal of nature in spring, and so on.”
- The New Question Box - Catholic Life for the Nineties, copyright 1988 by John J. Dietzen, M.A., S.T.L., ISBN 0-940518-01-5 (paperback), published by Guildhall Publishers, Peoria Illinois, 61651., page 554.
- The New Question Box - Catholic Life for the Nineties, copyright 1988 by John J. Dietzen, M.A., S.T.L., ISBN 0-940518-01-5 (paperback), published by Guildhall Publishers, Peoria Illinois, 61651., page 554.