Pope Given Massive Egg Ahead Of Easter Celebrations (VIDEO)

Italian chocolate company gives Benedict XVI an egg more than 6.5 feet high and weighing more than 550 pounds

With Catholics around the world preparing to celebrate Easter, an Italian chocolate maker Tosca presented Pope Benedict XVI with a giant brightly colored egg Thursday in a Vatican courtyard, reports the Catholic Herald.

At more than six and a half feet high and weighing more than 550 pounds, the ornate egg was decorated with the Pope’s coat of arms in blue and yellow wrapping, notes Sky News.

Instead of indulging in the tasty chocolate delight himself, the pope donated the egg to Casal del Marmo, a juvenile prison in Rome, according to Rome Reports.

For Christians, the Easter egg is symbolic of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

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[nogods]

08:47 PM on 04/05/2012

Major HP News!

[Billy Fritts]

01:45 PM on 04/05/2012

Im A Christian--Independent Missonary Baptist--No we have nothing to do with the Southern Baptist--We did like Paul said to do through the Holy Spirit--Come out from among them so we did--We have nothing to do with Easter eggs--Nor a easter bunny thats all pagan beliefs-Hey we do believe in the Worship on Easter of our Lord and Savior the Lord Jesus Christ--He was cruicified on a cross-Gave up his life for Siners-like me and you-He was buired in a tomb and on the third day was resurrected--This Sunday is Resurrection day for our Lord and Savior the Lord Jesus Christ--We Love You Lord Jesus Christ

[berkshireboy]

01:48 PM on 04/05/2012

Remind me not to invite you to my next cocktail party.

[Mrs Robinsons]

12:13 PM on 04/05/2012

2/2.with the golden feathers...
until we end up running up and down the streets...
all joined to the egg...losing our oneness...
tripping over ourselves and others...
until we become dusty and dirty
and disoriented
and some of us find we are
running along joined to a group of people
at the far end of the line
who are no longer even joined to the golden egg
anymore...
and we may have been doing this for years...
centuries even.
Following the golden egg...
instead of waiting for God's will...
trusting
him to bring us what we need.

There is Easter.

Then there is Jesus...who was Jewish.
Who at the Last Supper
was Jewish.
Passover.
The Seder..
the Cedar...
Then there is the Atman...
the HIndu belief about the soul
at men.
Then there are the visions we have
of those we love or know or don't know..
as if we are watching them through the trees.
The Atman
has been acknowledged
to be present in trees..
cedars
if that is what you have where you are...
perhaps other trees
if the atman
can stand colder or warmer climates.
There must be a way to bring this all together
and to feel
a complete comfort
with my earthly understanding...
so as to shed my levels
and be ONE...
the ONE under God
who is already comfortable
with BELIEVING.

[Mrs Robinsons]

12:13 PM on 04/05/2012

1/2,There is the simple Easter egg...
the egg of the Christian
the egg of rebirth
the egg of possibility
that Jesus is risen...
or maybe
one day we will realise
that it is the egg of
realisation
that he does not have to rise
again
he is already risen...
and he does not have to come back
to accept or acknowledge our sins
because
we as an intelligent world
a world which seeks
to better itself...
TO EVOLVE...
have set him free
from the bondage of our sins
by refusing to sin at all.
Instead of believing in pie in the sky...
the golden egg...
the egg we all follow...
and then become glued to...
one by one..
as the story of the goose

[Mrs Robinsons]

02:01 PM on 04/05/2012

The egg of the risen lord
might just as well be
hollow
or chocolate
and painted with bright colours..
as he is risen...
we do not need to break the egg to find him..
we can eat the egg without worrying about
harming him...
he is risen...
and seateth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty...
he will be there when he judges us..
from thence...
we will be taken up...
TO HIM...
as it is stated in
the passages about
rapture.

[JaGoFF]

11:04 AM on 04/05/2012

BREAKING NEWS: Easter will be cancelled this year due to pagan copyright claims.

[Justice-Reason]

10:43 AM on 04/05/2012

The Pope was given an Easter egg almost weighing 600 lbs. What does he have now?

He has Diabetus now. That's what the Pope has...that's Italian Chocolate specialists. Didn't he have enough to worry about, like liver spots and bad bratwurst, before Diabetus?

And now for your pleasure: The Diabetus Rap: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CC4QtwIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DDU5WXbD1CQw&ei=hq99T5fsEoiy8QSu3LD1DA&usg=AFQjCNF6pMAYGyUT8ZVuq0rqyjTbsgQhww&sig2=JQ87zvR80Yq58KXh7z6S0Q

[KenInd]

01:45 AM on 04/05/2012

How charming to see the leader of the Catholic Church embracing a symbol of a pagan holiday.

Even moreso when that symbol represents fertility. A celibate embracing fertility. Odd.

[genrel1248]

09:15 PM on 04/04/2012

I'ld hate to see the bunny that laid that thing.

[Mrs Robinsons]

08:13 PM on 04/04/2012

Hunting high and low..
on Maundy Thursday...Mystery Thursday...
the marking of the Last Supper which was connected to Passover...

where else would you find the son incarnate
but in a Juvenile Prison...
the soul of a child?

[Mayra Solano]

08:01 PM on 04/04/2012

If they give him an Easter egg, shouldn't they also bring out the Easter bunny? And what do those have to do with religion?

[Pembrokelib]

07:56 PM on 04/04/2012

Totally ridiculous article. Who cares? I doubt if the Pope does.

[ThEbor]

06:23 PM on 04/04/2012

It looks like a re-entry capsule. Maybe it's a demo model, for the 2012-2013 Apocalypse season.

[Galatians6 7]

05:43 PM on 04/04/2012

What do eggs have to do with Easter you ask? NOTHING AT ALL! Remember the reason for the season! Talk about missing the point! This is the highest height of irony! Maybe they should have created a giant chocolate dinosaur filled with peanut butter for the pope as well! SMH. (Mike, you get my point on this one right?)

[Galatians6 7]

05:42 PM on 04/04/2012

ALL BOW TO THE MIGHTY CHOCOLATE EASTER EGG...wait...on second though...isn't that a sin?

[Galatians6 7]

05:44 PM on 04/04/2012

*on second thought

[deathbysloth]

05:12 PM on 04/04/2012

You just know that in the back of his mind he's thinking "Man, I hope there's a stripper in there."