Easter Annual festival commemorating the resurrection of Jesus Christ The principal feast of the Christian year Celebrated on a Sunday on varying dates between March 22 and April 25 and is therefore called a movable feast. The dates of several other ecclesiastical festivals, extending over a period between Septuagesima Sunday (the ninth Sunday before Easter) and the first Sunday of Advent, are fixed in relation to the date of Easter. Connected with the observance of Easter are the 40-day penitential season of Lent, beginning on Ash Wednesday and concluding at midnight on Holy Saturday, the day before Easter Sunday; Holy Week, commencing on Palm Sunday, including Good Friday, the day of the crucifixion, and terminating with Holy Saturday; and the Octave of Easter, extending from Easter Sunday through the following Sunday. During the Octave of Easter in early Christian times, the newly baptized wore white garments, white being the liturgical color of Easter and signifying light, purity, and joy. As a tradition, on Easter, people paint easter eggs. There are many ways to do that, of course, but here just a few that are bound to work. This is the easiest one. Go to a local store, by an egg-painting kit that's bound to be there at some point in space and time, and follow the directions it's bound to include. You can go a step further and paint your easter aggs using onions. It sounds rather odd to those of you unaware of such a method, but, in fact, it is not. What you do is: (1) get some yellow onion peels. Not the stuff the you eat, but the stuff you're supposed to throw away. I'm not sure if those purple onions work, but the white ones you can rely on. (2) When you have peels from about ten (six, if big ones) onions, put them into a pan and boil. When the water gets all bubbly, or boils, put in the eggs. Don't burn yourself. Wait an hour or two, making sure nothing gets on fire, and get out the eggs. They should be ready by now. They should have a rich, red-orange color. If one of the eggs accidentally cracked, it's still perfectly safe to eat becuase the paint is as natural as paint can get. Dispose of the used onion peels and eat the eggs. This is the most difficult one, and, to be honest, I haven't done it since I was 10. Her's what you do: (1) get a relatively big egg. (2) Get a thick sewing needle or a thin knitting one. (3) Gently poke a hole in the pointy side of the raw egg with the needle. Push the needle all the way through to the other side. Try not to crack the egg too much. (4) Pick the biggest hole of the egg. Turn it over, and make the other hole slightly bigger. Insert a straw into the smaller hole (the one that used to be bigger) and blow. Dont't blow too roughly because the yolk can just sort of break the egg under pressure. (5) When all the yolk is out, wash the egg and the needle very, very thoroughly. (6) Now you have an egg that you can paint in whatever way you like (even markers, etc) and then hang it up. It won't smell bad because, hopefully, you cleaned it out really well. (7) Now make an omlet out of the yolk of the egg and eat it, feeling that warm and fuzzy feeling of accomplishment.