Christmas falls on the same day each year yes?

Question

Jesus was supposed to have died on good friday, so why is Easter on different days each year unlike Christmas which is on the same day?

Answer 1

To calculate the date of Easter for any year use the following algirithm.
The algorithm applies to any year since the introduction of the Gregorian Calendar, which in Britain was in September 1752.
We refer to the year number as y, and use it to calculate the Golden number, g:
g = y mod 19 + 1
Next we calculate the date of the Paschal full moon, that is, the full moon which Easter is the Sunday after. This is done in several stages. First we calculate two values called the solar correction, s, and the lunar correction, l.
s = (y - 1600) div 100 - (y - 1600) div 400
l = (((y - 1400) div 100) × 8) div 25
Next we calculate an uncorrected date for the Paschal full moon, p'; then we apply a minor correction to get the exact date, p, as the number of days after 21st March.
p' = (3 - 11g + s - l) mod 30
if (p' == 29) or (p' == 28 and g > 11) then
p = p' - 1
else
p = p'
Now we need to determine the date of the following Sunday. First we calculate the 'Dominical number', d:
d = (y + (y div 4) - (y div 100) + (y div 400)) mod 7
Note that this is the number from which the Dominical letter is determined, and we calculate d', which is the date on which the first Sunday of the year falls:
d' = (8 - d) mod 7
We already have p, the date of the Paschal full moon in days after 21st March. Next we determine p'' the first date in the year which falls on the same day of the week as the Paschal full moon. First we determine the 'day number' of p with respect to 1st January. This is 31 + 28 + 21 + p = 80 + p. (Note that we can disregard possible occurences of 29th February, because the calculation of d has already taken this into account, and we shall see that these two values will cancel each other out.) p'' is then given by the formula:
p'' = (80 + p) mod 7
= (3 + p) mod 7
The difference between d' (the first Sunday in the year) and p'' (the day of the week when the Paschal full moon falls) gives us the number of days that must be added to p to get the date of the following Sunday, which is Easter Day. There is one further subtlety. This number must lie in the range 1-7, rather than 0-6, since Easter is not allowed to fall on the same day as the Paschal full moon. We first determine x', the difference between d' and p'':
x' = d' - p''
= (8 - d) mod 7 - (3 + p) mod 7
= (8 - d - (3 + p)) mod 7
= (5 - d - p)) mod 7
To force this to lie in the range 1-7, we calculate x
x = (x' - 1) mod 7 + 1
= (4 - d - p)) mod 7 + 1
We can now calculate e, the number of days Easter falls after 21st March:
e = p + x
or
e = p + 1 + (4 - d - p) mod 7
In other words Easter Day is:
if e < 11 then
(e + 21) March
else
(e - 10) April

Christmas Day, the day ordained as the celebratory day for the birth of Christ. Yet, no church actually claims that the 25th of December is the day on which Christ was born. In the Church's history, it had been worked out that God created the world at the time of the spring equinox, then considered as the 25th March, it was declared, this would also be the time for the conception of Jesus with his actual birth occurring precisely nine months later on the 25th December. Yet no Church actually claims that the 25th December is the day on which Christ was born.
In fact, until the fourth century, the dates given for the birth of Christ were in spring (March 28th, April 18th, and May 29th). However, towards the end of the Forth century, a reckoning was made based on the belief that Jesus had lived exactly 30 years - an amount of time including his gestation in the womb. Calculating backwards from the date of his death (then accepted at the 6th of April) this put his birth on January 6th. But, whilst the Eastern Church was happy to mark this date for special celebration as Epiphany (the manifestation of the Deity on Earth), the Western Church had particular concerns in the widespread pagan festivals that it had to combat.
The working out of the day of the birth of Jesus, therefore, was more realistic and practical rather than scientific. The start of the year, for Anglo-Saxon England, remained the 25th December until William the conqueror brought it into line with the Julian Calendar by making it the first of January.

Answer 2

Easter goes by a Lunar calendar, which means it's going to be off each year since the 365 1/4 and the 28 1/2 are off from each other. Christmas is the same each year because the birth of Jesus is actually unknown, with most ardent scholars agreeing that around Sept 25th is actually closer than the December 25th date codified in the days of Charlemagne.

P.S.: Easter is named after the goddess Astarte.

Answer 3

Good Friday is the Friday before Easter. In reality history shows that Jesus was actually born in July., that is when they were required to go to Jerusalem to pay their taxes, not in December. It's also when the northern star was at it's peak in the sky and many other facts that dispel the date of his birth.. ..over time and because history also shows that Christmas is actually a pagan holiday the dates have changed to meet the needs of the people. Just like we celebrate Presidents birthdays on Mondays to get a long weekend, it's for the people not the reality of what is. Do a thorough study on Christmas and you will find it had little to do with the birth of Jesus. There came a time when the government thought it would be better to just celebrate the holidays together because of convenience. I still celebrate Christmas on that day or near it but I know it is His day every day. I thank Him every day.

Answer 4

Christmas and Easter are actually Pagan Holidays Originally

Easter is named after the goddess Eateress something to do with Spring I'm not too sure been a long time since I studied Religion

Christmas I think should be either early December or Early January again a pagan holiday changed when the pagan and Christian religions combined

Answer 5

The mass we celebrate at Christmas was originally the mid-winter mass in the northern hemisphere or {in the south} mid-summer mass (holiday).
The word we call Easter comes from quite a few ancient languages meaning egg, birthing, and oestrus (when a female comes into season or heat).
Despite what is published in one of these answers, the easiest way to work out when Easter will fall is that Easter Sunday is the first Sunday after the first full moon after the Ides of March. So it could be as early as March 21st or as late as about April 20th.

Answer 6

Christmas doesn't fall on the same day at all each year; the date does.

Answer 7

No its different every year. day wise, dates the same.


Its an example of how the calendar has to be changed all the time because its not accurate.

The calendar has many examples of this. 29th Feb etc.

Answer 8

because Easter is meant to be on the same day all the time, for instance Friday.

Answer 9

the same date 25 dec but not the same day

Answer 10

This is to convenience us, the date of neither event is documented.