[IELTS 생활속영어공부] Easter

생생 영어 공부 2010/04/05 15:26

영국인들에게 크리스마스처럼 하나의 큰 축제로 여겨지는 부활절!
부활절 방학과 상점들에선 부활절 맞이 세일까지~
신앙이 없는 사람들에게도 휴식의 기쁨으로 다가오는 ^-^
생명이 깃든 달걀을 풍요와 다산의 상징물로,
토끼는 눈을 뜨고 자는 동물로 죽음의 잠을 이기고 환생한 그리스도의 상징으로,
이 두 모양들의 초콜릿과 카드를 주로 선물로 주고 받는데
특히 아이들에게 토끼 모양의 초콜릿을 정원에 숨겨 놓고 찾게 한다는~

부활절의 의미와 유래에 대해 알아볼 좋은 기회?!

Easter

Easter is the most important annual religious feast in the Christian liturgical year. According to Christian scripture, Jesus was resurrected from the dead on the third day after his crucifixion. Some Christians celebrate this resurrection on Easter Day or Easter Sunday (also Resurrection Day or Resurrection Sunday), two days after Good Friday and three days after Maundy Thursday. The chronology of his death and resurrection is variously interpreted to be between AD 26 and AD 36. Easter also refers to the season of the church year called Eastertide or the Easter Season. Traditionally the Easter Season lasted for the forty days from Easter Day until Ascension Day but now officially lasts for the fifty days until Pentecost. The first week of the Easter Season is known as Easter Week or the Octave of Easter. Easter also marks the end of Lent, a season of fasting, prayer, and penance.

Easter is a moveable feast, meaning it is not fixed in relation to the civil calendar. The First Council of Nicaea (325) established the date of Easter as the first Sunday after the full moon (the Paschal Full Moon) following the vernal equinox. Ecclesiastically, the equinox is reckoned to be on March 21 (regardless of the astronomically correct date), and the "Full Moon" is not necessarily the astronomically correct date. The date of Easter therefore varies between March 22 and April 25. Eastern Christianity bases its calculations on the Julian Calendar whose March 21 corresponds, during the twenty-first century, to April 3 in the Gregorian Calendar, in which calendar their celebration of Easter therefore varies between April 4 and May 8.

Easter is linked to the Jewish Passover not only for much of its symbolism but also for its position in the calendar. In most European languages the feast called Easter in English is termed by the words for passover in those languages and in the older English versions of the Bible the term Easter was the term used to translate passover.

Relatively newer elements such as the Easter Bunny and Easter egg hunts have become part of the holiday's modern celebrations, and those aspects are often celebrated by many Christians and non-Christians alike. There are also some Christian denominations who do not celebrate Easter.

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신앙이 없더라도 풍요로운 마음 잔뜩 담아
예쁘게 장식한 달걀을 친구에게 선물해 보아도 좋을 듯?!

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