Easter is such a wonderful and important holiday for so many reasons. First and foremost, of course, is the religious significance for everyone who celebrates the resurrection of Christ, which is the basis for all Christian faiths.

It’s also a fun and colorful family day, with a weekend that often includes Easter egg hunts for children, photos with the Easter bunny, and Easter baskets filled with chocolate bunnies, Peeps, and other goodies. For adults, Easter baskets can have samples of the foods that will be served at Easter dinner. One of my fond childhood memories is of getting our Easter baskets blessed on Holy Saturday. My mouth still waters at the thought of the aromas we were treated to while waiting for the blessing.

And speaking of Easter dinner, Easter is one of those holidays that brings families together, often for a traditional meal such as ham or lamb, potatoes, spring vegetables, hard-boiled or deviled eggs—did I mention coloring Easter eggs as another beloved tradition?—and a dessert such as a pound cake baked in the shape of a lamb. That’s another tradition I remember from childhood, and which I’ve done a number of times as an adult. A few years ago, however, when I accidentally beheaded my lamb while trying to remove the cake from the lamb mold, I decided it was time to put that dessert and tradition to rest—no pun intended.

Because of its religious significance and the fact that it comes in the spring, Easter also represents a time of hope, renewal, new beginnings, and new growth. It seems that we are all in need of this, now more than ever. And it’s something I’ll be praying for at Mass on Easter morning.

However you celebrate Easter—if you do at all—and in whatever traditions you follow, I wish for you a season of hope, renewal, new beginnings, and new growth, in every area of your life.

Happy Easter!

April 4, 2026
©Betty Liedtke, 2026

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