Easter Is Coming! (Padded)

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The Moon repeats the dates of its phases approximately every 19 years (the Metonic cycle), and the Golden Number represents a year in that cycle. As the youngsters hear God’s tale unfold with its sometimes somber notes about sin and death, they are softly and continually reminded, “But Easter is coming! I start reading the Gospel of Matthew, and notice the questions that Jesus Himself asked, like: Why do you doubt me?

The author of Easter is Coming does a fabulous joy of taking young listeners from original sin to the Resurrected Christ at the empty tomb. I had been so busy with our wedding, my new life, adjusting to it all, that I had focused on little else. This discrepancy between the astronomical equinox date and the Church’s observed equinox date can sometimes cause confusion, as in 2019 when the full Moon and the astronomical equinox occurred on the same day—Wednesday, March 20. So with that in mind, and with the palidrome-like form of Lost Generation and The Truth as an inspiration, I just started playing around with phrases and sentences until I’d worked something out. It observes the most central tenet of the Christian faith—that Jesus Christ was resurrected from the dead.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. In the past, the word easter could mean “to turn toward the east” or “rising” and didn’t necessarily have any implied religious meaning. That afternoon, as is the case most Saturday afternoons, I was taking my daughter to a horseback riding lesson in Hugo, about 30 minutes from our home.

In a time when children's Easter excitement often focuses on only egg hunts and candy, this book offers a different--and true--reason for joy and expectancy.The book begins with Creation, shares the birth of Jesus and continues through to His death and the celebration of His resurrection. The repeated message is, that while many didn’t understand or acknowledge that plan, Easter was always coming. This book is absolutely gorgeous and it shares a wonderful message of the hope that "Easter is coming! The Golden Number is a value used to show the dates of new Moons for each year, following a 19-year cycle. takes the reader through the story of the Bible explaining how Adam and Eve sinned, and that God had a plan to fix things.