EASTER 2022. This year, the Easter feast takes place this Sunday, April 17, and on Easter Monday, the following day. What are the Easter traditions, why do we eat chocolates and how to organize an egg hunt? All our tips for preparing for Easter with the family.
When do we celebrate Easter as a family?
This year, Easter takes place on Sunday, April 17. Easter Monday – public holiday following Easter Sunday – will therefore take place Monday, April 18, 2022. Remember that the dates of the Easter holidays (or spring holidays) depend on each zone. They take place from April 16 to May 2 for zone A; from April 9 to 25 for zone B and from April 23 to May 9 for zone C.
What are the Easter traditions?
Worldwide, Easter traditions are numerous. Let us quote some of them which one finds in France.
- Decorated eggs : this custom, which dates back to the Middle Ages, comes from the fact that, during Lent, the consumption of eggs was prohibited, fasting and abstinence required. In order not to lose them, we only consumed them during Mi-Lent, preparing pancakes and donuts, then we decorated those laid the following days in order to offer them at Easter.
- Chocolate eggs : in the 18th century, people began to empty eggs to fill them with chocolate and offer them. Moldings of chocolate eggs did not appear until the 19th century with the evolution of manufacturing techniques.
- Easter bells : according to popular tradition, it is the bells, which leave Rome on Holy Thursday, which bring the eggs on Easter morning and ring out the resurrection of Jesus. In the East of France, the stork or the rabbit sometimes replaces the bells to bring Easter eggs.
- Egg hunt : Traditionally, eggs and other Easter chocolates are hidden in gardens, houses or apartments for children to collect.
What are the best Easter chocolates?
Chocolate is a must for Easter. In the form of small praline eggs, frying, molding in the shape of a bell, rabbit, hen or egg but also in desserts, it invites itself to our table during the Easter weekend.
What to eat at Easter? All our recipe ideas
The star ingredient of the Easter meal remains lamb, from the leg to the shoulder, including the ribs. Find out how to accommodate this meat and with which dishes to accompany it.
Where to organize an Easter egg hunt?
What Easter activities to do with the children?
Coloring rabbits, making chicks or eggs at home, decorating cakes or even sending personalized cards… Easter is first and foremost a children’s party! And it’s not because we are in confinement that we cannot carry out these activities which will please young and old alike, offered by our partner Hugo l’Escargot.
Easter decoration, for the table and home
What is the symbolism of Christian Easter?
For Christians, Easter is the most important religious holiday and marks the event in the life of Jesus on which their faith is based, namely his resurrection. The celebration of Easter concludes Holy Week describing the Passion of Christ, from the Last Supper – his last meal – to his crucifixion, then his burial. In the Christian religion, this feast symbolizes the sacrifice of Jesus Christ for men but also a certain spiritual renewal and a confirmation of the faith.