2006-06-24 22:56:31 · 9 answers · asked by Sammie 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Easter
Because the church said so in A.D. 325. The date of Easter is determined according to the lunar calendar, while the date of Christmas is fixed on the solar calendar. Before 325, there was no official celebration of the birth of Christ, and Easter was celebrated by some Christians on Passover (a lunar holiday) and by others the following Sunday.
the holiday was celebrated on the Sunday following the first full moon after March 21, the start of spring.
2006-06-24 23:02:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Easter Sunday doesn't always fall on the same month and day for a one main reason. Easter was created to ease arguments between the christains and pageans under Constantine's reign. Easter, which the Saviour, is on the first sunday, after the first full moon, after the vernal equinox, making it on a different day every year, (the pagean connection is the pattern of the moon and equinox)
2006-07-01 12:51:25 · answer #2 · answered by bunny02 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It always falls in the same month....and if easter sunday landed on a thursday...it couldn't be called easter sunday would it? and as for easter monday?...passover.....it would be called easter friday....so really...it would just always be different and confusing and this is the best way to leave thing alone and make it work all time so as not to confuse stupid americans
2006-06-25 23:40:49 · answer #3 · answered by jasondj1980 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It always is in April. It has to line up with pass over on the Jewish calender. Which is the 3 weekend of the month. It is the death and resurrection of Christ.(Good friday and Easter Monday) I believe it was Constantine in around the 350ad that permitted Easter to be celebrated and the whole bunny thing is for the pagans. So no its not really about bunny's and chocolate.
2006-06-25 23:44:05 · answer #4 · answered by elizabeth 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Easter is celebrated on the Sunday after the first ecclesiastical full moon day on or after the ecclesiastical vernal equinox day 21 March.
2006-06-25 12:31:28 · answer #5 · answered by Sherry K 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because Easter falls in accordance with the full moon.
2006-06-25 05:59:36 · answer #6 · answered by Dare You To Dream 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, our "religious" holiday falls on a date mandated by the moon ohh!! something that is of pagan origin! Happy Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox
2006-06-25 20:49:59 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because Easter is a movable festival in the Christian Calender, it depends on the phase of the moon.
2006-06-25 06:01:39 · answer #8 · answered by djoldgeezer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You guys! Now, we all know it is due to candy schedules. Corporate America is the only God I know, and all holidays are coordinated with their respective sales figures. Jesus-poppy cock! Easter Bunny-ultimate prophet! Once you learn that money is the only true spiritual currency your lives will be a lot easier!
2006-06-26 03:01:45 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋