Nonetheless, all seem to be happy to celebrate the Spring aspects of Easter, with flowers, fashions, and gifts from the Easter Bunny, a traditional and pre-Christian symbol of Spring's fertility, who delivers other fertility symbols, notably eggs--coloured, and chocolate--in baskets, nests, and sometimes accompanied by toys. Most often the Easter Bunny seems to pass in the night, so that children arise to an Easter egg hunt for the treats he has left in their home.
This past week, I asked a member of the university cleaning staff, who regularly cleans my office, if the Easter Bunny would be coming to her house this year.
Later that day I gave her a dozen Lindt chocolate eggs nested in a small tin decorated with Easter bunnies and flowers. This is a day of rejoicing after the somberness of Lenten preparations for Easter, and the passion of Christ--from His arrival in Jerusalem to celebrate Passover, celebrated on Palm Sunday (the Sunday before Easter), to His betrayal by Judas, and trial by the Romans and the Jewish leaders, His punishments and humiliations and then death on the Cross, and then His entombment.
In some traditions the weekend is also a time for Easter egg colouring, and hunts, or Easter egg rolls. She told me no, that they were Muslim (which I knew), and I replied that the Easter Bunny is for everyone, especially everyone who likes chocolate!
Easter Sunday is a time attend religious services to celebrate with others the joy of the Resurrection.
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