when is easter?

Answer 1

The celebration of ISHTAR (The Babylonian Goddess of fertility) is the first Sunday after the full moon after the Vernal Equinox. This falls at about the same time as Passover, which is the 15th day of the first lunar month (which is the month of barley harvest) --[actually that is the first day of unleavened bread, which is often referred to as "passover"]

Answer 2

April 8, 2007

Answer 3

Easter SUNDAY

The Council decided to keep Easter on a Sunday, the same Sunday throughout the world. To fix incontrovertibly the date for Easter, and to make it determinable indefinitely in advance, the Council constructed special tables to compute the date.



The usual statement, that Easter Day is the first Sunday after the full moon that occurs next after the vernal equinox, is not a precise statement of the actual ecclesiastical rules. The full moon involved is not the astronomical Full Moon but an ecclesiastical moon (determined from tables) that keeps, more or less, in step with the astronomical Moon.



Easter falls on the first Sunday following the first ecclesiastical full moon that occurs on or after the day of the vernal equinox;
this particular ecclesiastical full moon is the 14th day of a tabular lunation (new moon); and
the vernal equinox is fixed as March 21.
is fixed at March 21 regardless of the actual motion of the Sun.
The date of Easter is a specific calendar date. Easter starts when that date starts for your local time zone. The vernal equinox occurs at a specific date and time all over the Earth at once.
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For example, take the year 1962. In 1962, the astronomical Full Moon occurred on March 21, UT=7h 55m - about six hours after astronomical equinox. The ecclesiastical full moon (taken from the tables), however, occured on March 20, before the fixed ecclesiastical equinox at March 21. In the astronomical case, the Full Moon followed its equinox; in the ecclesiastical case, it preceeded its equinox. Following the rules, Easter, therefore, was not until the Sunday that followed the next ecclesiastical full moon (Wednesday, April 18) making Easter Sunday, April 22.



The rule is that Easter is the first Sunday after the first ecclesiastical full moon that occurs on or after March 21. The lunar cycles used by the ecclesiastical system are simple to program. The following algorithm will compute the date of Easter in the Gregorian Calendar system.


This year Easter is on Sunday April 8th

Answer 4

Easter tihs year is Sunday April 8th

Answer 5

on Sunday 8th April 2007

Answer 6

It's on April 8 on Sunday.

Answer 7

8 of april

Answer 8

This year it's April 8th.

Answer 9

Easter is the day that Christ rises... if he sees his shadow, we have 6 more weeks of winter

Answer 10

Two days after Good Friday

Let go and let God my friend