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Summary
- Latter-day Saints celebrate Easter on the same Sunday as most other Christian churches.
- Their Easter service is a sacrament meeting with talks on the Atonement and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, Easter hymns, often a choir, and the sacrament of bread and water.
- The church holds no Ash Wednesday, Lent, Maundy Thursday or Good Friday services, but it encourages members to study the events of Holy Week at home, and in 2026 the First Presidency asked congregations to hold a one-hour sacrament meeting on Palm Sunday.
- Latter-day Saints teach that Christ rose bodily and that all people will rise, and at Easter they also read the Book of Mormon’s account of Christ’s visit to the Americas.
- Their chapels display no cross, because the church’s message is “a declaration of the Living Christ.”
- Many members enjoy Easter eggs and bunnies, which the church allows but which carry no religious significance for it.
Bibliography (Click to show)
- “Easter,” Topics and Questions (2023), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topics/easter?lang=eng
- “Easter,” The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Easter 2026 page). https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/welcome/easter?lang=eng
- “First Presidency announces 1-hour sacrament meeting to commemorate Palm Sunday in 2026,” Church News, January 22, 2026. https://www.thechurchnews.com/leaders/2026/01/22/first-presidency-announces-palm-sunday-one-hour-sacrament-meeting/
- “What is Palm Sunday and why does it matter to Latter-day Saints?” Church News, March 2023, republished by Newsroom. https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/what-is-palm-sunday-and-why-does-it-matter-to-latter-day-saints
- “What is Good Friday and what does it mean to Latter-day Saints?” Church News, republished by Newsroom. https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/what-is-good-friday-and-what-does-it-mean-to-latter-day-saints
- “Latter-day Saints and Easter: A broadened focus on the faith’s centuries-old doctrine,” Deseret News, April 3, 2026. https://www.deseret.com/faith/2026/04/03/latter-day-saints-focus-on-easter/
- “Cross,” Topics and Questions (2025), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topics/cross?lang=eng
- Gordon B. Hinckley, “The Symbol of Our Faith,” Ensign, April 2005. https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/2005/04/the-symbol-of-our-faith?lang=eng
- “Church Unveils New Symbol Emphasizing Centrality of Jesus Christ,” Newsroom, April 2020. https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/new-symbol-church-of-jesus-christ
- Book of Mormon, Alma 11:44; 3 Nephi 11:14–15. Doctrine and Covenants 109 (heading); 110:4 and heading. https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures?lang=eng
- Bible quotations from the King James Version: Luke 24:39; 1 Corinthians 15:22.
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