Why is Easter the only holiday that is on a different day yearly??

Answer 1

Easter is always on a Sunday. The date on the Gregorian calendar changes because it is based on the Hebrew calendar which uses lunar and solar cycles, as it is the Sunday after Passover (the Last Supper is believed to have been a seder).

Some holidays are always on the same DATE, and therefore fall on different DAYS each year, like the 4th of July and New Year's Day.

Many other holidays have different DATES as they are always observed on a particular DAY of the week , such as Thanksgiving on fourth Thursday of November, and President's day on the third Monday of February, etc.

Answer 2

Actually there are a lot of celebrations that are determined based on the lunar calendar. For example, Ash Wednesday is also on a different date each year, then the Jewish Seder happens the week before Easter. This was the celebration that Jesus was having with his apostles at the Last Supper. Then Good Friday has to happen on a Friday (obviously) and Easter is always on the Sunday following the Seder. All of these holidays are based on the lunar calendar, so blame the moon.

Answer 3

Easter is given a date that is somewhat related to Passover a very significant Jewish holiday. The ancient Jews used a lunar calendar so, I think this is right, Easter is the first Sunday, after the first new moon, after the Spring Equinox.

Hope that helps.

Answer 4

There are and they tend, by and large, to be members of those sects which are most virulently anti-Catholic. It was, for a time, a sort of race, a competition to see who could prove they were the best "original" Christians by ditching the largest number of traditions. Of course they than had to justify getting rid of them by inventing reasons, usually by making up stories about links to various pagan sects and always by totally ignoring historical facts. Sample: Easter. The festival of the Resurrection of Christ. Known to be over 1800 years old as we have copies of sermons and accounts of debates about the festival from before 200 AD. This means it was an established festival by then so does quite probably go back to the time of the apostle. The early debates were, in part, about when to celebrate it. Christians were accustomed to commemorating the resurrection on the Lord's Day, Sunday, the day Christ rose. This lead most to decide that the main annual celebration should also be on a Sunday and, because the resurrection happened around Passover time, they chose the first Sunday after the start of the JEWISH Passover. For this reason, Christians also named the feast after Passover - Pascha (in Greek from the Hebrew Pesach). It became the Christian Passover. This name persists in most languages - including the official language of the Catholic church - Latin - Festa Paschalia. In most years Paschalia is still on the Sunday after the start of Passover but differences in calculation methods adopted by Jews and Christians lead to occasional mismatches. Now roll forward 500 years. Festa Paschalia / Pascha is a well established festival and, with its associated feast (Good Friday etc.) forms the Paschal Season. Missionaries arrive in England to convert the Anglo-Saxons. They teach about these new festivals which the converts are now going to celebrate; about the Paschal Season which happens to coincide, more or less, with Eosturmonath (the Eostur season - Eostur probably meaning Spring). The common folk thought that "Paschal" meant "Eostur" and that name passed into the vernacular language. The church, of course, continued to use the Latin name Paschalia right up to the time of the reformation in the 16th century when the Church of England broke from Rome and started to use English in its liturgy. This eventual adoption by the Protestant Church of England of an Anglo-Saxon word for the feast clearly had nothing at all to do with any pagan religion or adoption of pagan practises which had ALL died out many centuries earlier, but that hasn't stopped various crack pots claiming that it was. They will even claim that the festival came from Babylon because Easter happens coincidentally to sound a little bit like the name of an ancient Babylonian goddess. Stupid or what!!!

Answer 5

It isn't the only one. Thanksgiving is on the fourth Thursday in November every year (so it meets on different dates), Father's day is the third Sunday in June, etc.

Easter is celebrated on the first Sunday that occurs after the first full moon on or after the vernal equinox. Most pagan holidays that revolve around the sun or the moon are on different days every year.

Answer 6

Because It Always Has To Be On Sunday Or Else There Would Be No Easter Monday Or Good Friday

Answer 7

Easter is celebrated on the first Sunday after the first full moon after Passover. But Thanksgiving is on a different day each year also (Third Thursday in November)

Answer 8

It's not the only one...

Thanksgiving is always on a Thursday, but the date changes...
Mother's day is always on a Sunday, but the date changes...
Father's day is always on a Sunday, but the date changes...

Independence day is always on July 4th, but the day changes...
Christmas is always on Dec. 25th, but the day changes...

And if you're of the Jewish faith, Chanukah falls on a different date every year...

There are numerous more....

Answer 9

It's not. Mother's Day, Father's Day, Labor Day, Memorial Day, Thanksgiving...

Answer 10

It comes 40 days after Mardi Gras which is based on the moon. So basically Easter is based on the moon. When it gets a new moon or full moon.