Come Receive the Light

A picture that  I have used elsewhere.

It was taken around midnight Saturday during Easter - not the Easter of Western Christians but that of Eastern ones, which fell a week later this year.

This little girl has received the light during the  mid-night service on Easter Saturday, and her candle is alight. 

Easter is the most important feast for Christians of the East, we usually call it Pascha.

The rabid anti Christian types seize upon the fact that "Easter" is named after an obscure Anglo Saxon  Goddess to scoff and claim the Church has hijacked pagan festivals.

I just smile at their ignorance, in English and perhaps some other Germanic languages Easter may have taken Eostre's name but in most it takes a form similar to Pascha - derived from the Greek word for Passover - an ancient and biblical Jewish feast.