Easter falls at different times every year so I would like to know why?
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Easter is the first Sunday after the Paschal Full Moon and the Paschcal full moon is determined by the date of the first actual full moon that occurs after the vernal equinox (the first day of spirng).\n\nThe date of the Paschal Full Moon can differ from the date of the actual full moon by up to 2 days but will always occur between March 21 and April 18 and so Easter Sunday will fall on or between March 22 and April 19.\n\nThese are the dates for Western Easter Sunday (WES), Orthodox Easter Sunday (OES) can fall on different dates.\n\nThis year WES is on April 16th and OES is on April 23rd, next year it will be 8th April for both WES and OES.
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The spring is the best time to have offspring, because it allows them the longest period of time to mature before the next winter. During the spring days are dramatically longer than in winter months. Although summer days are longer still, the change in daylight is much more dramatic from winter to spring than from spring to winter. This trips a genetic trigger that causes the bird's glands to gear up on fertility hormone production, causingg the bird to lay more eggs.\nFarmers leave the lights on to trick the bird's bodies into thinking it's spring and etc.\nThis same process with the daylight causes animals to fatten up for the winter or for their fur to turn from brown to white for the winter or to shed extra fur in the spring.
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Ash Wednesday, the day Lent begins, is actually placed 40 days before Easter Sunday, not counting Sundays. The reason Sundays are not counted is Sunday is the day the church celebrates the resurrection of Christ.
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Actually, the Easter Bunny has everything to do with Easter. \n\nEaster is derived from an ancient Germanic name for the month of April, Eostremonat--or rather Eostre Month, in dedication to the goddess Eostre. Eostre, or Ostara was a German goddess of fertility and her return was marked by the coming of spring and the sun. The Ost in her name refers to the East--the rising of the sun. The rebirth of the day and the rebirth of the spring were her specialties, and her celebrations occured during the vernal equinox--the first day of spring. Of course calendar dates have gotten juggled about for quite a few different reasons over time and now April is no longer where it once was on the calendar at what is now March 21st.\n\nThe rabbit was a traditional symbol of the goddess because of its great fertility, and the fact that the coming of spring marked the time when all of the little bunnies were seen starting to be born.\n\nWhen Christianity became the predominant religion it was an easy transition to introduce the rebirth of the Christ figure into the already extant birth and rebirth tradition. Old ways die hard, and the bunny stuck around. \n\nAlthough there are several explanations for the eggs the Easter bunny brings, (other than eggs are another traditional symbol of birth/rebirth) the most likely is that eggs were forbidden during the fast of lent, and were decorated and eaten in abundance to mark the end of the fast.\n\nGerman protestants although breaking with Roman Catholocism liked the egg tradition and kept it. And when German immigrants came to America, they brought with them the traditions of the Osterhase (Easter hare) and his eggs.\n\nInasmuch as Christianity has stolen the ancient goddess' name for their own holiday, it seems only fitting that its original mascot still puts in an appearance each year.
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Because don t eat red meat on Friday while Easter is coming is a way to make a sacrifice in the name of Christ, its means that you also sacrifice like Christ did, making a little es force not eating red meat
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Unlike Christmas and Hannukah, Passover and Easter ARE actually related. Jesus had entered into Jerusalem for the Passover celebration so he could show how the mindless servitude to tradition without understanding was actually separating people from God, plus he needed a very public event so his death would be well-known, because the resurrection was so important as a sign of God's love for mankind, no matter what their religion.
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Ostara is the one I believe most closely matches Easter. She represents fertility and renewal just as spring has sprung. \n\nDid you know: Eggs were (and still are!) dyed or painted bright colors as an offering to Ostara. Dawn is the best time to invoke her. In days of old, fires were lit at dawn in her honor. It always amazes me how traditions like this survive over the millennia.---
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It amuses me at how many people will justify celebrating a pagan holiday and still claim to be christian.\n\nThe Easter egg has nothing to do with the death of Jesus but was a fertility symbol.\n\nJesus was not born in December but end of September start of October.\n\nEven the stories that the churches teach regarding the birth of Jesus are not accurate. The wise man did not turn up on the night Jesus was born but some time after.\n\nA true christian would not celebrate anything to do with false religion.
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The Easter Bunny is not a modern invention   The symbol originated with the pagan festival of Eastre   The goddess, Eastre, was worshipped by the Anglo-Saxons through her earthly symbol, the rabbit.\n\n The Germans brought the symbol of the Easter rabbit to America   It was widely ignored y other Christians until shortly after the Civil War   In fact, Easter itself was not wide y celebrated in America until after that tim \n\nThe Easter Eg\n\n As with the Easter Bunny and the holiday itself, the Easter Egg predates the Christi n holiday of Easter   The exchange of eggs in the springtime is a custom that was centuri s old when Easter was first celebrated by Christian\n\n From the earliest times, the egg was a symbol of rebirth in most cultures   Eggs were often wrapped in gold leaf o , if you were a peasant, colored brightly by boiling them with the leaves or petals of certain flower\n\n Today, children hunt colored eggs and place them in Easter baskets along with the modern version of real East r eggs -- those made of plastic or chocolate cand
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It ALWAYS falls on a Sunday.
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i love easter but there's just no substitute for Christmas.  the holiday cheer that suffuses everything is the greatest, the music, the decorations, people get sick of it but i love it the same every year--as long as they don't start earlier than Halloween i'm good!
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Easter is a holiday celebrating the resurrection of Christ..
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It is mainly because easter ocuurs during spring. But i dont know why eggs are part of it.
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"Keep Jesus Going"\nEaster is on the second Sunday of April 2007; you could have Easter-type celebrations each Sunday of the month.
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It starts on Ash Wednesday and ends on Easter Sunday.
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The true meaning of Easter has nothing to do with Jesus. Some Christians decided that's when they were going to have one of their festivals because they thought that stealing Pagan dates, etc. would encourage more Pagans to convert to Christianity. Easter, or Eostre, is a Pagan godess of fertility. That's what the eggs and bunnies are all about.
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Going to church for today. We did an Easter egg hunt earlier in the week with my two married sisters and their children. After three rounds of the children finding the eggs the adults hid, the fourth round was reversed, and adults had to find the (hard-boiled) eggs the children hid. It was hard! There's still one somewhere in the living room we couldn't find! Usually we celebrate Easter with reading part of the New Testament or Book of Mormon about Christ's death and resurrection. My little brother is 18 and too old for Easter baskets. My mom used to make "bunny bread" in the shape of a large bunny, or bunny rolls which included a little "tail" in the middle.