Easter blessing

Resurrection Sunday prayer

Easter blessing is a wish or prayer invoking divine favor during the Easter holiday, expressing hope for renewal, joy, or spiritual grace.

The phrase appears on greeting cards, in church services, and as a spoken benediction: She sent Easter blessings to the whole family.

It may also refer to special foods blessed by a priest before the Easter meal, a tradition in some Catholic and Orthodox communities.

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prayer · renewal · sacred · joy · peace · hope · lamb · cross · Lamb of God · rebirth · new life · salvation · hymn · sunrise · Holy Week · Good Friday · alleluia · faith

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Opposites
benediction vs. malediction

Easter blessingcurse

Invoked harm through words

malediction · hex · anathema · damnation · execration

resurrection/life vs. death/condemnation

Easter blessingeternal damnation

Everlasting punishment after death

funeral rite · death sentence · last rites · requiem · death knell

sacred vs profane

Easter blessingblasphemy

Irreverence toward the sacred

profanity · sacrilege · desecration · satanic ritual

Family

Easter, blessing, east, eastern, easterly, eastward, bless, blessed, blest

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G