How is the date/start of lent/pancake day decided?

Answer 1

Ramo has the best answer, more concise yet complete than I had thought of.
All I am left to say is I look forward to pancake day because I like them and do not get them often!
--That Cheeky Lad

Answer 2

Ash Wednesday, the day after Shrove or "pancake" Tuesday is the first of 40 days of lent. This culminates in the great day of Easter.
Easter Day is a movable date because it follows the cycle of a full moon. Pope Gregory XIII (from whom we have the Gregorian Calendar) worked out a formulae in 1582 and this is used by both Roman Catholic and Protestant Churches.
Easter Day falls on the first Sunday following a full moon that occurs on or after the day of the Spring Equinox.
Easter Day can never be earlier than 22 March nor later than 25 April.
Orthodox Churches have different dates because they use the older Julian Calendar .

Answer 3

You have the answers now but I wonder why pancakes, oh yes just remembered, it is about using up your left over flour etc before lent, and sacrificing stuff isn't it. Sorry thinking out loud, must give that up for Lent.

Answer 4

Like Easter, it's determined by the cycles of the moon in some way. It's forty days before Easter Sunday.

Answer 5

Wiener is one among those dumb call. they're sausage like, yet not sausages. i think a wiener is a various class of foodstuff altogether. I nonetheless have not discovered how they'd proceed to exist interior the wild with none eyes. strange. i assume one among those wondrous creature merits its own day. I wager it replaced into some zoologist.

Answer 6

its on a 28 year cycle predetermined by the easter bunny