How do you know what date Easter is?

Question

I know that the holiday is always on a Sunday, but sometimes this holiday occurs in March. Is there a definitive answer that can tell me when Easter is this year? Next year? The year after that? A calendar can't tell you everything you know.

Answer 1

Easter is always the first Sunday after the first full moon after the Spring equinox.

Answer 2

When is Easter? (Short answer)
Easter Sunday is the first Sunday after the first full moon after vernal equinox.
Easter can never occur before March 22 or later than April 25.

In 2007:
Ash Wednesday 21 February 2007
Palm Sunday 1 April 2007
Good Friday 6 April 2007
Easter Day 8 April 2007
Ascension Day 17 May 2007
Pentecost 27 May 2007
Trinity Sunday 3 June 2007
Advent Sunday 2 December 2007

This web site will calculate when Easter is going to be or has been for any given year.
All you do is type in the year and click.
http://www.ely.anglican.org/cgi-bin/easter

Answer 3

You can find calendars online which will tell you the dates for Easter Sunday every year from long ago to far into the future, such as the one listed below.

The reason for the apparent confusion regarding the dates of Easter is the fact that they are based on both lunar and solar calendars and on rules that are interpreted differently by the Eastern and Western Christian churches. The date of Easter also determines the dates of a number of other religious feasts each year, which are called movable feasts in the church calendar.

2007 April 8
2008 March 23
2009 April 12

Answer 4

Why? because of the fact of Christianity's origins in Jewish Palestine. The bible tells us that Christ died and rose lower back around the time of the Jewish Passover. hence early Christians, lots of whom have been initially Jews, celebrated Easter on an identical time because of the fact the Jewish Passover. Christians, inspite of the undeniable fact that, celebrated Christ each and every Sunday this sort of excellent variety of of them celebrated Easter, not precisely at Passover yet on the Sunday following. This grew to grow to be the custom of the Church following the Council of Nicaea in the early 4th century. It replaced into not something to do with paganism. The Jews use a lunar calendar - each and each month starts with a clean moon. Passover is on the 14th Nissan - the 1st month of spring so Passover is often 14 days after the 1st finished moon of spring. inspite of the undeniable fact that, Jews in diverse international locations observed the hot moon on diverse days so celebrated Passover on diverse days. The Church needed anybody to rejoice Easter on an identical day so it got here up with its very own self reliant formulation which replaced into an identical everywhere a million. Easter falls on the 1st Sunday following the 1st ecclesiastical finished moon that happens on or after the day of the vernal equinox; 2. this actual ecclesiastical finished moon is the 14th day of a tabular lunation (new moon); and 3. the vernal equinox is fixed as March 21. The RC church now makes use of the Astronomical finished moon as stated from Jerusalem.

Answer 5

Easter Sunday is the first sunday after the first full moon after the 24th of March.

Answer 6

If you can get hold of "The Book Of Common Prayer," there is a complicated process laid out by which you can calculate the date. It's rather like a problem in quantum mechanics, though, and I don't mind waiting for the calendars to come out each year and check them.

Answer 7

This is a website that explains how and why for both Eastern and Western Christian Easter.......they are often different dates! This year they are the same. The explanation is about half way though the web article.

http://www.assa.org.au/edm.html#Method

Answer 8

this year
Good Friday is April 6th
Easter Monday Public Holiday is April 9th

(4 day weekend Australia)

Answer 9

The calendar is the best I've come up with so far. You know they make them several years in advance now.

Answer 10

Its the first full moon 40 days after Lent.