Let’s celebrate Easter solemnly

ANOTHER year is here with us again for the world to celebrate one of the most cherished festive seasons, Easter.
EASTER, according to Christians, is the celebration of Jesus Christ’s resurrection from the dead after his crucifixion which took place on what we now term as Good Friday.
EASTER is usually celebrated on the first Sunday after the full moon of the year and is widely observed as the most sacred of all the Christian holidays and celebrations.
CHRIST’s return (or rising) from death is called the Resurrection. According to the scriptures, Christ’s tomb was empty three days after his death, which is commemorated on Good Friday.
HIS followers saw him and talked to him after His resurrection. Christians, therefore, believe that they have the hope of a new life (an everlasting life in Heaven) after their earthly death.
ALTHOUGH Easter is a Christian festival, it has many pre-Christian and Pagan traditions.
EASTER festival celebrations have embodied a number of other traditions occurring around the same time. Most scholars speak of the relationship between Easter and the Jewish festival of Passover, or Pesach in Hebrew.
THE Passover celebrates the safe flight of the Israelites out of Egypt and across the Red Sea, led of course by Moses, and as described in the Book of Exodus in the Bible.
OVER here in Ghana, people take advantage of this season to make merry with their families and friends. Students and the youth in particular also draw a line-up of programmes to celebrate the Easter holidays.
WHAT is more, the various drinking spots are usually flooded by a sea of holiday makers who go to booze their heads. Our beaches most often are filled to capacity with people chilling back and forth.
THE Kwahu Mountains is also expected to host all the Easter action with the annual paragliding festival which is organised by the tourism ministry to give it a pageantry touch.
TODAY therefore thinks that if these developments will be taking place during this year’s edition of Easter, then there is a great cause for worry because the sea at the Labadi Beach will be ready to swallow anybody who cannot swim well.
IT is in this vein that Today cautions those who will be having fun at the beaches to be wary of the drowning enigma at our beaches. It is very interesting to see people getting drowned every year, but yet in the face of all these deadly circumstances, people keep patronizing the beaches with great enthusiasm and gusto, especially on Easter Mondays.
WE also take this opportunity to advise motorists to desist from drink-driving which has largely contributed to the loss of innocent lives through the cause of road traffic accidents.
WE at Today further charge Ghanaians to observe the Easter festive season as solemn as possible to avoid any preventable mayhem. We are not telling holiday makers not to chill but chill sensibly with their heads and not their hearts.
THOSE who will take advantage of the Easter to exhibit their sexual prowess should also be mindful that there is a deadly disease called HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases which can be contracted through sexual intercourse. On that note we wish our cherished readers and all Ghanaians a Happy Easter season.