Christianity has been in a quandary about this matter for a very long time and has resorted to setting dates which coincide with the phases of the moon. According to Wikipedia, “After several centuries of disagreement, all churches accepted the computation of the Alexandrian Church (now the Coptic Church) that Easter is the first Sunday after the Paschal Full Moon, which is the first moon whose 14th day (the ecclesiastic ‘full moon’) is on or after March 21 (the ecclesiastic ‘vernal equinox’).”

It is easy to see, therefore, the importance the early Christians must have given to the celebration of Easter. I think none, because if the season were canonical, we would have certainly known its date. Neither does Christmas seem to have had any significance for them to warrant a holy day such as we have designated for ourselves; nor does any other feast day for any saint, for that matter.

At the last supper Jesus spent with his disciples, he said that as often as they did those things he had shown them in reflecting on the sacrifice he was about to make by the offering of his life, that they should do them all in remembrance of him. There was no mention of a week of holy days. This is important because traditions such as these to which we adhere and deem sacrosanct were obviously concocted along the way and reflect a deviation from the practice of the faith.

What then becomes of the eating of hot cross buns and the flying of kites? Perhaps it is best we eat our buns in peace and continue to fly our kites, but do so like the kindly Hindus among us. As it is written, “Though I am free and belong to no man, I make myself [available] to everyone.” (1 Corinthians 9, NIV)
MARK A.C. BLAIR