Easter Sunday

More and more families are spending Easter weekend at Put-in-Bay in one of the many vacation rentals. Both churches on the island hold services and it is a popular time to share with others. Extending a weekend vacation by one extra night is easy to do and Island Club Home Rentals usually has a super deal of Sundays at half off if you add it to a weekend. Enjoy a day of peace and reflection and faith by joining us for Easter on the island.

For reservations, call 216-898-9951 or preview your Put-in-Bay Lodging options online. You will find many homes, condos, hotel suites, and cottages available for rent.

History of Easter

Easter, also called Resurrection Sunday, is a festival and holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, described in the New Testament as having occurred on the third day of his burial after his crucifixion by the Romans at Calvary c. 30 AD. It is the culmination of the Passion of Jesus, preceded by Lent, a forty-day period of fasting, prayer, and penance.

Most Christians refer to the week before Easter as “Holy Week” – it contains the days of the Easter Triduum, including Maundy Thursday, commemorating the Maundy and Last Supper, as well as Good Friday, commemorating the crucifixion and death of Jesus. In Western Christianity, Eastertide, or the Easter Season, begins on Easter Sunday and lasts seven weeks, ending with the coming of the fiftieth day, Pentecost Sunday.

Easter and the holidays that are related to it are moveable feasts which do not fall on a fixed date in the Gregorian or Julian calendars which follow only the cycle of the sun; rather, its date is determined on a lunisolar calendar similar to the Hebrew calendar. The First Council of Nicaea (325) established two rules, independence of the Jewish calendar and worldwide uniformity, which were the only rules for Easter explicitly laid down by the council. No details for the computation were specified; these were worked out in practice, a process that took centuries and generated a number of controversies. It has come to be the first Sunday after the ecclesiastical full moon that occurs on or soonest after 21 March, but calculations vary.