it occurs on different dates each year!
2007-04-15 09:33:14 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Easter is on the first sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox. It follows similar rules to Passover in that respect, and I think it is just about the only moveable feast left on the Christian calendar. Good Friday moves around because it is always the Friday before Easter. Easter follows Passover, because the Last Supper was a Passover Sedar. Many holidays in the early church were celebrated as "moveable feasts", they had no fixed date for a time. Christmas for example, did not have a fixed date at first, and was celebrated pretty much any time a congregation wanted to. When it was finally set as a fixed date on the calendar, then it stopped being a movable feast...
2007-04-15 09:37:07 · answer #1 · answered by beatlefan 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good Friday is two days before Easter. Easter is the first Sunday after the first full moon of the Vernal equinox. This has been the method of determining Easter for centuries. In the first few centuries, it was always on Passover, the 14th of Nisan according to the Hebrew calendar. Problem was, Passover does not always fall on a Sunday. I believe that it was Pope Victor that called for Easter to always be on a Sunday.
2007-04-15 09:39:53 · answer #2 · answered by The Carmelite 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Friday before Easter which is the first Sunday after the start of Passover.
2007-04-15 09:51:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Friday before Easter...the date for Easter varies, and then so does the date for Good Friday.
2007-04-15 09:37:21 · answer #4 · answered by Anne 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry to bust your bubble here but no one knows the exact date of that event of Jesus death, burial and resurrection and the even GOD describes to honor that is baptism by the way that Easter thing is something mankind came up with and is largely pagan in origin. Find out more free bible lessons www.amazingfacts.org God bless talk to me also wgr88@yahoo.com
2007-04-15 09:39:38 · answer #5 · answered by wgr88 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it was arranged so it could break up the year a bit regarding holidays.the fact is that jesus along with others were actually crucified around september time.im surprised you dont know that and im an atheist.
2007-04-16 10:25:44 · answer #6 · answered by earl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is always the friday before easter. yes, you missed it.
2007-04-15 09:36:48 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
dont know
2007-04-15 09:37:22 · answer #8 · answered by Maurice H 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its on a sunday isn't it..:)
2007-04-15 09:36:10 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋