Why is is not on the same date every year like christmas?
2007-12-30 00:28:59 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Easter
Easter marks the end of 40 days of Lent, which begins on Ash Wednesday.
2007-12-30 00:42:12 · answer #1 · answered by ~RedBird~ 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Easter, Pascha, or Resurrection Day, is an important religious feast in the Christian liturgical year. It celebrates the resurrection of Jesus, which Christians believe occurred on the third day after his crucifixion some time in the period AD 27 to 33.
Easter also refers to the season of the church year called Eastertide or the Easter Season. Traditionally the Easter Season lasted for the forty days from Easter Day until Ascension Day but now officially lasts for the fifty days until Pentecost. The first week of the Easter Season is known as Easter Week or the Octave of Easter.
Easter is termed a movable Christian holy day because it is not fixed in relation to the civil calendar. Easter falls at some point between late March and late April each year (early April to early May in Eastern Christianity), following the cycle of the moon.
Today many families celebrate Easter in a completely secular way, as a non-religious holiday.
Easter is linked to the Jewish Passover not only for much of its symbolism but also for its position in the calendar. The Last Supper shared by Jesus and his disciples before his crucifixion is generally thought of as a Passover meal, based on the chronology in the Gospels.Some, however, interpreting "Passover" in John 18:28 as a single meal and not a seven-day festival,interpret the Gospel of John as differing from the Synoptic Gospels by placing Christ's death at the time of the slaughter of the Passover lambs, which would put the Last Supper slightly before Passover, on 14 Nisan of the Bible's Hebrew calendar. According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, "In fact, the Jewish feast was taken over into the Christian Easter celebration."
2007-12-30 08:34:14 · answer #2 · answered by idlevil_73 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Easter is a moveable feast. It happens on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal Equinox. The Equinox is the 21st March, so Easter will be the first Sunday aftet the next full moon. Happy Easter.
2007-12-30 08:36:07 · answer #3 · answered by John G 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Google easter.
2008-01-01 19:50:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Always beats me that the Christians are dead certain that Jesus was born on December 25th, but for the last 2000 years haven't been able to decide when he died.
2007-12-30 08:45:23 · answer #5 · answered by simon n 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
its to do with the full moon after the spring equinox so changes every year!
2007-12-30 08:34:09 · answer #6 · answered by willow glitter 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That's just the day it falls on.
2008-01-01 09:24:09 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
depends when full moon appears
the full moon of the passover :)
2007-12-30 08:36:12 · answer #8 · answered by Desirable number 1 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋