The_Rambler_1954-04-14

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LONG ISLAND AGRICULTURAL AND TECHNICAL INSTITUTE
FARMINGDALE, L. L, N. Y.
Vol. XXIV, No. 8 April 14, 1954
H A P P Y E A S T ER
EASTER — TO EVERYONE
by Maria Oliva
NEWTOWN HIGH CAREER DAY
Easter is the principal feast of
the ecclesiastical year. In the early
days of the Christian Church there
was a controversy over the proper
date for the celebration, but it is
now agreed that it should be cele-brated
on the Sunday after the
first full moon following the spring
equinox. The resurrection occurred
at the time of the Jewish Passover
festival. The reason for the con-troversy
was that Jesus rose from
the dead on the first day of the
week. Gentile Christians insisted
that Easter be celebrated on Sun-day
and the Christians who had
been Jews observed the day on the
day of the Passover, regardless of
whether it was Sunday. Conse-quently,
Easter moves between
March 24 and April 25.
The name of the feast comes
from Eostre, a Teutonic Goddess,
whose festival was celebrated in
celebration of the resurrection.
Eostre, according to legend, is be-lieved
to have opened the portals
of Valhalla to receive Baldur, called
the White God, because of his
purity and also the Sun God, be-cause
his brow supplied light to
mankind.
It was during the Civil War that
the nonritualistic churches began
to observe Easter. So many men
were killed and so many homes
were made desolate the churches
strove to bring all the consolations
of religion to the bereaved. In the
Catholic churches, the Easter sea-son
was selected for reminding
those in mourning of the promise
of resurrection in the story of the
risen Christ.
The custom of decorating the
churches with flowers for the
Easter service has become general
and a Bermuda lily which blossoms
in the spring is used so largely
that it has come to be known as
the Easter lily.
The egg came to be regarded as
symbolical of the resurrection, as
it holds the seed of a new life. But
eggs came to be associated with
Easter origionally because it was
forbidden to eat them during Lent
and on Easter Sunday they were
served. In medieval England the
priest blessed the Easter eggs in
a form of benediction authorized
by Pope Pius V in the course of
which he said that they were eaten
On Wednesday, March 24, the
fourth Newtown High School Agri-cultural
Career Assembly was held.
L. I. A. T. I. sent representatives
Nick Loiacono of the B'rozen Foods
course, George Mulford of the
Dairy Industry course, and Edward
Quinones, representing the Animal
Husbandry course.
Colleges that were also repre-sented
were Cornell, State Uni-versities
of Alfred, Cobelskill and
Delhi.
Mr. Francis S Moseley, principal
of Newtown High School, led the
assembly program by speaking to
the students about how fortunate
they were of knowing what specific
career they wanted and planning
according to their wishes. Other
guest sneakers were Dr. A. Morris,
who spoke on "Veterinary Medicine
As A Career"; Mr. E. Austin, of
Zorn's Poultry Enterprises, spoke
on "Careers In Poultry"; Mr. J.
Cutrone, spoke on "Civil Service
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"in thankfulness on account of the
resurrection of our Lord." Many
American Catholics have a boiled
ham for dinner on Easter without
being aware of the origin of the
custom. It is a survival of the
ancient habit among the English
of eating a gammon of bacon on
that day to show their contempt
for the Jewish custom of not eat-ing
pork.
In the Hebrew world the Pasch
or the Feast of the Passover is
regarded as being one of the most
important celebrations of the year,
beginning on the fourteenth day of
Nisan (April) and continuing for
eight days. Passover refers to the
Angel of death who passed over
the houses of the Jews in Egypt,
the doors of which had been
sprinkled with the blood of a lamb.
This sprinkling of blood was an
ancient custom, followed when a
pestilejice prevailed, arising from
the belief that the plague could not
enter a house thus marked. The
Jews, obeying the injunction of
Moses, remained in their houses
on the fatal night, dressed ready
for a journey, and ate unleavened
bread and the lamb that had been
slain to provide the blood. The
Last Supper, which Jesus ate with
His disciples before the Crucifixion,
was in celebration of the Passover.