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Christians observe Easter with zest in Kerala
The Hindu
Massive turnout in North Kerala churches
Christians in Kerala celebrated Easter Sunday to commemorate the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
The festival signalled the end of a season of renunciation, prayer, and contemplation on the messiah's suffering, crucifixion, and resurrection.
Churches of various denominations held special prayers to celebrate the season of revival and new beginnings.
Easter also marked a return to the world of family togetherness, feasting and rejoicing after the gloomy COVID-19 pandemic years.
The holy week that culminated with Easter festivities had dovetailed with Vishu, the spring harvest festival that also held the message of hope and rejuvenation.
Solemn prayers and processions that enacted Christs's suffering on the cross and resurrection had characterised the Holy Week.
At the St. Mary's Basilica in Ernakulam, Syro Malabar Major Arch Bishop, Cardinal Mar George Alenchery, led the prayers.
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When fed into Latin, pusilla comes out denoting “very small”. The Baillon’s crake can be missed in the field, when it is at a distance, as the magnification of the human eye is woefully short of what it takes to pick up this tiny creature. The other factor is the Baillon’s crake’s predisposition to present less of itself: it moves about furtively and slides into the reeds at the slightest suspicion of being noticed. But if you are keen on observing the Baillon’s crake or the ruddy breasted crake in the field, in Chennai, this would be the best time to put in efforts towards that end. These birds live amidst reeds, the bulrushes, which are likely to lose their density now as they would shrivel and go brown, leaving wide gaps, thereby reducing the cover for these tiddly birds to stay inscrutable.