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Easter is an important date in the year. People celebrate the resurrection of Jesus. It's a time of rebirth and is celebrated in lots of different ways around the world. It's an improtant time for families to get together, to correspond, to remember old friends, to get in touch. Children of course love the easter eggs, and I expect adults love them too.

This lens is a collection of the wonderful Easter cards, postage and other gifts available from the storekeepers at Zazzle which I hope you will find useful in your search for that special Easter item.

Maundy Thursday

Holy Thursday

  • Maundy Thursday is the day before Good Friday
  • The name 'Maundy' is derived from the Latin word "mandatum", meaning a commandment. Jesus Christ, at the Last Supper, commanded:

    'And now I give you a new commandment: love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.' John 15:12
  • On this day we remember The Last Supper. During the meal Jesus took bread and wine and shared them with his disciples.
  • The night of Maundy Thursday is the night on which Jesus was betrayed by Judas in the Garden of Gethsemane.
  • During the Last Supper, Jesus washed his disciples' feet. This act has sometimes been followed literally in history as a good way of reminding rulers that they are here to serve their subjects.

Maundy Thursday

Holy Thursday

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Maundy Money

When and how did this begin?

The act of giving Maundy money has it's roots in the ritual of Jesus washing the the desciples' feet. For a long time afterwards, monarchs used to perform this ritual where the washing of the feet of the poor was accompanied by gifts of food and clothing. Maundy money as such started in the reign of Charles II with an undated issue of hammered coins in 1662. The coins were a fourpenny, threepenny, twopenny and one penny piece but it was not until 1670 that a dated set of all four coins appeared. Prior to this, ordinary coinage was used for Maundy gifts, silver pennies alone being used by the Tudors and Stuarts for the ceremony. Henry IV began the practice of relating the number of recipients of gifts to the sovereign's age, and as it became the custom of the sovereign to perform the ceremony, the event became known as the Royal Maundy. Today's recipients of Royal Maundy, are chosen because of the Christian service they have given to the Church and community. The sovereign hands to each recipient two small leather string purses. One, a red purse, contains - in ordinary coinage - money in lieu of food and clothing; the other, a white purse, contains silver Maundy coins consisting of the same number of pence as the years of the sovereign's age. This year the Queen will be 84.

Good Friday

  • Jesus was arrested in the Garden of Gethsemane
  • Jesus condemned to death "because he claimed to be God's son."
  • Jesus carries his cross with the aid of Simon of Cyrene to the place of the Skull, or "Golgotha" in Hebrew and in Latin "Calvary".
  • Joseph of Arimathea takes the body of Jesus, wraps it in a clean linen shroud, and places it in his own new tomb that had been carved in the rock (Matthew 27:59-60) in a garden near the site of crucifixion.

Good Friday

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Calls to Ban the Bun

New Law Passed

Hot crossed buns are thought to pre-date Christianity. The saxons were thought to have eaten hot cross buns. They honoured the goddess Eostre and the cross is thought to have symbolised the four quarters of the moon. Protestant English monarchs saw the buns as a dangerous hold-over of Catholic belief in England. They were baked from the dough used in the making of the communion wafer. Moves where made to ban the sale of the buns. However, Elizabeth I passed a law permitting bakeries to sell them at Easter and Christmas. Today, Hot Cross Buns are eaten on Good Friday where the cross symbolises the crucifixion. The first recorded use of the term "Hot Cross Bun" was in 1733.

Hot Cross Buns

Hot cross buns, hot cross buns,
one a penny, two a penny,
Hot cross buns.
If you have no daughters,
give them to your sons,
Hot Cross Buns One a penny, two a penny,
Hot cross buns.

Easter Day

  • Jesus was resurrected from the dead on the third day of his crucifixion.

Easter Day

Resurrection Sunday

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Easter Cards

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Easter Eggs

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The egg is a symbol of rebirth and new life and has been used since Pagan times. People used to dye their eggs red. This symbolized the blood of Christ redeeming the world and human redemption through the blood shed in the sacrifice of the crucifixion. A legend among followers of Eastern Christianity says that Mary Magdalene was bringing cooked eggs to share with the other women at the tomb of Jesus, and the eggs in her basket miraculously turned brilliant red when she saw the risen Christ. A different, but not necessarily conflicting, legend concerns Mary Magdalene's efforts to spread the Gospel. According to this tradition, after the Ascension of Jesus, Mary went to the Emperor of Rome and greeted him with "Christ has risen," whereupon he pointed to an egg on his table and stated, "Christ has no more risen than that egg is red." After making this statement it is said the egg immediately turned blood red.

Easter Egg Card Designs

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Easter Egg Postage

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Easter Postage

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Easter Bunnies Greetings Cards

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Easter Bunny Postage

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Time's ticking on getting organised

Countdown to Good Friday

Good Friday: April 22, 2011

Easter Chick Greeting Cards

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