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Easter is indeed the most important holiday in the Christian calendar.
The entire basis for the Christian faith is the belief that Jesus of Nazareth, an itinerant Jewish preacher and teacher from the region of Galilee in first-century Palestine, was executed by crucifixion on a Friday by the Roman authorities occupying Palestine. Dead as a doornail, He was laid hurriedly in a tomb prior to sundown, which was the beginning of the Jewish Sabbath, a time when the handling of dead bodies was forbidden by Jewish law. On the following Sunday, women who had traveled with Jesus during His approximate three-year ministry went to purify the body and found the tomb empty. And while we celebrate this important event on Easter Sunday, it is in many ways just another Sunday for regular church-goers , since we obey the words of Jesus to practice our faith in community and to love one another. As a member of the church of CEM, while I did believe in the story which I related above, I did not have the fire of belief which I have now.