VFK Easter Day 2012 Mini-Quest

April 8, 2012
 April 9, 2012	
==Description==
Happy Easter! The holiday of Easter is called a moveable holiday, meaning that it is based on a lunisolar calendar and not a set date. According to the Gregorian calendar, Easter always falls on a Sunday between March 22 and April 25, inclusively. The date has been set to be the first Sunday after the full moon following the vernal equinox in the Northern hemisphere. On today's quest, we will look at the significant holiday of Easter!<BR><BR>
 
Your reward for completing this quest will be 1,000 credits, and the Easter Pin 2012!<BR><BR><BR>
===Prizes===
===Questions===
1. In Roman times, accurate records were kept by historians. According to these historical records, Jesus was crucified and rose from the dead on the third day after his crucifixion. His resurrection is remembered on Easter Day or Easter Sunday. An early Christian greeting when you encountered a fellow Christian was to say which expression? 
* The time is upon us all!
* Greetings!
* How are you?
* He is risen!<BR><BR>
2. Go to Audubon's Wild Woods in Western Age and say this historical greeting: "He is Risen!"<BR><BR>
3. What was a common reply among early Christians to the greeting: "He is risen!"?
* He has risen indeed!
* Yes, that is true
* I know it
* Have a Good Day Fellow in Christ<BR><BR>
4. In some churches, the Easter season begins by the celebration of Lent before Easter. Lent is a forty-day period which ends in the last week called Holy Week and includes Good Friday, which commemorates the crucifixion and death of Jesus. Eastertide or the Easter Season, a fifty-day period following Easter ends with Pentecost Sunday. Go to the Crossroads, outside your Garden Gate, and say: "He has risen indeed!!"<BR><BR>
===Answers===
1. He is risen!
2. Go to Audubon's Wild Woods in Western Age and say this historical greeting: "He is Risen!"
3. He has risen indeed!
4. Go to the Crossroads, outside your Garden Gate, and say: "He has risen indeed!!"
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