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Saint Patrick’s Day is celebrated on March 17th. On this day, everyone wears green or they run the risk of getting pinched. In the United States, people wear the green and go to Irish pubs to celebrate. In Chicago, the city dies Lake Michigan green.

In Ireland, Saint Patrick’s Day is a religious holiday to its’ citizens. They attend church services, have family and community gatherings, and wear shamrocks.

What most people do not know is the reason people celebrate Saint Patrick’s Day. Saint Patrick is the patron saint of the Irish.

The first Saint Patrick Day celebration was held in Boston, Massachusetts in 1737. Now, more than 100 cities have parades and the parade in New York City is the biggest.
Easter is probably the most important Christian holiday of the year. Everyone knows that Christians are celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the founder of the Christian religion.

Most Christians celebrate Easter on the first Sunday after the first full moon following the first day of Spring in the Northern Hemisphere. Therefore, Easter is usually celebrated between March 22 and April 25. This year Easter is on March 27th.

Some of the Eastern Orthodox Churches may celebrate Easter later since these churches use additional factors to determine when to celebrate.

European Christians call Easter Pascha. The word comes from the Hebrew word pesah, which means passover.

To little kids, Easter means dressing up and hunting for Easter eggs. They also get to color those eggs and eat the candy they find in the plastic eggs.

This year, Lent actually started in February but continues on into March. Lent is part of the Catholic celebration of Easter. The Lent season lasts forty days and forty nights excluding Sundays in the Western Churches and Saturdays and Sundays in the Eastern churches. The number of days is a reminder of the forty days and nights that Jesus spent fasting in the desert.

Catholics used to fast except they were allowed one meal a day. Now, Catholics cannot eat meat on Fridays and on Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent. Lent ends on Easter.
Here is a piece of advice: do not forget to wear green on Saint Patrick’s Day. Remember to have a very Happy Easter.