 Easter, also called Resurrection Sunday, is a Christian holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus. While Easter this year occurs on the 31st of March, the Easter season begins much earlier. In Christian calendar, Easter follows the 40-day season of length, during which Christians practice their faith through acts of penance and fasting. On Sunday marks the beginning of the week preceding Easter, called Holy Week. Its name originates from the palm branches waved by the crowd to greet and honor Jesus as he entered the city of Jerusalem. Holy Week is also home to Mondi Thursday, the commemoration of Jesus' last supper with his disciples. After Friday, the day of his crucifixion and Holy Saturday, the transition between crucifixion and resurrection. Easter is a joyful celebration full of Christians' traditions that range across nations. In America, Christians traditionally enjoy an Easter Sunday feast with ham as the central dish. The reason for that is a practical one. Historically, pigs that went to slaughter in the fall curled over the winter months, making ham ready just in time for Easter in the spring. In Ethiopia, on the other hand, where the arm-harmic word for Easter is fasika, meat plays a different role. Christians worship throughout length by abstaining from meat and animal products consumption, only to celebrate with a variety of dishes and dances on Easter Sunday. Bermuda is home to a Good Friday kite festival, while Guatemalans cover the streets in colorful carpets to prepare for a Good Friday procession, and still, many Mexican and Italian Christians communities enjoy the spectacle of fireworks. Across nations, however, there is one uniting tradition, eggs. Eggs are used symbolically throughout the Easter holiday, seasoned as a symbol of rebirth and are both eaten and painted. To all who celebrate, however you choose to celebrate, we wish you a reflective season of length and a happy Easter.