why good Friday do not fall on one particular date and the dates changes every year?
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Good Friday is always the Friday before Easter.  To properly understand the nature of Good Friday.  Some research is required to find out why Easter is scheduled the way that it is.\n\nAccording to Newadvent.org and an excerpt from the Catholic Encyclopedia, Easter will always fall some time between March 22 and April 25.  This would make Good Friday sometime between March 20 and April 23.\n\nSee the second paragraph in the link below under The Feast section for a more detailed explanation.
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It is a simple probability question,\n\nChance of Xmas Day being a Sunday is 1 in 7\nChance of Xmas Day being a Full Moon is 1 in 29\nChance of it being both at the same time is 1 in 7 x 29 or 1 in 203. \n\ni.e. averaging roughly once in every two centuries, in the long term, Leap years may throw it out by a day, occasionally and cause a longer gap than predictable between two occurrences but equally a Leap Year may cause one to happen sooner than it otherwise would, so it all evens out eventually.
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I have an old World Almanac (I think it was 1985's) which actually gave the method for determining Easter, and trust me, it's not something you actually give all the steps of here.  It's truely a mess, and it's this way because the early Church attempted to combine the Jewish and Julian (later the Gregorian) calendars.\n\nIt's actually Easter that is figured, Good Friday is simply the Friday before it.  Easter is supposed to occur on the Sunday after Passover, and if Passover falls on Sunday, then it's the Sunday after that.  Passover, being based on the Jewish calendar, is based on the full moon of a certain month (forget which), and to obfuscticate it even more, the Jewish calendar is lunar, not solar like the Julian/Gregorian calendar.\n\nRoughly, the way it is figured is to take the year and divide it by 19, then throw away everything but thr remainder, then remultiply it to get a certain number (0-18).  You then go to a special chart which gives a date, the date of something called the Pascal Full Moon, no relation to the actual full moon.  Easter is then the Sunday afterwards.  The formula had to be modified with the advent of the Gregorian calendar in the 16th Century, so it really isn't as easy as it sounds.\n\nWithout surprise, there is an ongoing movement to have a fixed date for Easter (in other words, say it's always on  April 10).  The problem is objections by various denominations for various reasons (even a "second Sunday in April" has been attacked).  I suspect the date of Easter will be a mess for a while to come.
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In the Western churches, the date of Easter is set (more or less) as the first Sunday after the first full moon that occurs next after the vernal equinox.  The vernal equinox, of course, is the event that begins spring, on or around March 21 each year.\n\nI say "more or less" because there are some other minor considerations for which church officials over the centuries have actually spent a great deal of time and effort in drawing up rules, tables, pronouncements, etc.  For most years, however, the above statement is the rule.
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Lucky or unlucky, Friday is one of the most popular days in the week. TGIF is the commonly used acronym meaning "Thank Goodness It's Fiday!". There is even a popular restaurant that goes by the name, claiming that whenever you eat there it is Friday. The love for the day is undoubtedly engendered by the fact that in the Western World it is the last workday of the week. \nIn predominantly Moslem countries, Friday is a holy day, a day to gather in the mosques at noon for prayers and to spend the day in religious contemplation. \n\nThe name of the day is derived from yet another Norse God (in this case a goddess), Frigga. She was believed to be the wife of Odin and was the goddess of marriage and the hearth. The Roman's had named this day for their goddess of beauty, Venus. They called it "dies veneris". When the Germanic tribes invaded England they imposed their goddess upon the day meant to honor Venus. The day was called frigedaeg, it has been corrupted over the centuries (since the 500's) to be "Friday". \n\nSince early times a Friday that falls on the 13th day of a month has been thought to be unlucky. Historians posit that this may be because there were thirteen persons present at the Last Supper of Christ and that this number proved unlucky; the following day (a Friday) Jesus was crucified. Find out when Friday the 13th falls for the rest of the year. \n\nThe Friday crucifiction spawned another Eastertime holiday known as Good Friday. The appellation, "good", was likely a corruption of the word, "God". So that Good Friday was originally, God's Friday, the day Christians believe God showed his love for the world by relinquishing his son.
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Easier to follow than the truth.  As you stated, Christmas is one that is a pagan holiday that has come in through tradition.  The Catholic church has adopted many traditions that the rest of the churches as a whole has also adopted as well.  One is the first day as being the day of worship.  I have seen the writings of all the major religious leaders of all the churches that state the Sabbath of the Bible is the seventh day, not the first, and that they know the Catholic church is the one that did the change and yet they follow the sunday worship anyway, the first day of the week, a pagan holiday.  The venerable day of the Sun, when the pagans worshipped the sun god and the whole world follows the pagan tradition.  Those that say they are Christians and do not follow traditions best do some studying into what they are believing.  I would offer $50,000 cash to anyone that can show me from the bible alone that Sunday, the first day of the week is sanctioned by God to be observed as His worship day.  Look it up on the net and you will find there is no command like that, it is only the tradition from the Catholic church.  Easier to follow the crowd than to lead the crowd.
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Its not there, however, you are using the wrong calendar.  We should really worship Friday Night to Saturday, with the Jews, as Jesus did.  Using the Calendar and traditions he used.
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Rotational Years\nIf you write the year using the digits , the year  was a special year because it read the same upside-down. How many years since the birth of Christ have had this property?\n \nYou are given the following information, but you may prefer to do some research for yourself.\n1 Jan 1900 was a Monday.\nThirty days has September,\nApril, June and November.\nAll the rest have thirty-one,\nSaving February alone,\nWhich has twenty-eight, rain or shine.\nAnd on leap years, twenty-nine.\nA leap year occurs on any year evenly divisible by 4, but not on a century unless it is divisible by 400.\n\nHow many Sundays fell on the first of the month during the twentieth century (1 Jan 1901 to 31 Dec 2000)?
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Christmas is fixed because the Catholic church fixed it.  and it is totally the wrong time of the year, but they did it anyway.  \nEaster should be linked to the Jewish passover, as Jesus was the ultimate passover lamb.  This should be fixed by the Jewish calender, which we don't use.  A Rabbi should know.\nChristmas is definitely a pagan holiday, but the passover is a feast initiated by God in the Old Testament.  We really have communion and can do it anytime.
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good friday is not a national holiday so yes there will be mail...
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Back in medieval times the king's income was collected by the Exchequer. It was their decision to divide the year into four parts so that sheriffs could travel to deliver the money without having to carry such large amounts. The dates were chosen as the main feasts closest to each of the quarter year days.\n\nThe accounting periods then ended on Lady Day (March 25), on Midsummer's Day (June 24), on Michaelmas (Sept 29) and Christmas Day (Dec 25). It was tradition that the books would be balanced on 29 September.\n\nMost of Europe changed from the Julian to the new, more accurate, Gregorian calendar in 1582, but Great Britain continued with the old one system until September 1752. By this time the difference had increased to 11 days because the Romans had miscalculated the length of a year from the solar cycle.\n\nThese 11 days were 'caught up' by being removed from the calendar altogether in 1752 when 2 September was followed directly by 14 September. In order not to lose 11 days' tax revenue in that tax year, the tax authorities then decided to tack them on at the end of the Christmas period, changing the collection date to 5 January. 80 years later, in 1842 the beginning of the tax year was moved to Lady Day, 6 April and has not changed since.
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Easter is based on a lunar calendar.  It has to do with a specific Sunday after a number days following a full moon.  That's why the date moves around.\n\nI found a good article on www.wikipedia.org that goes into a great deal on the subject.
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April 14th is Good Friday.  I'm not sure if is a national holiday because it involves Easter and not everyone celebrates Easter.
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because christmas was a pagan holiday.\n\nChristmas Dec 25th.  No clue who came up with that date but it isn't correct.  Jesus was born in the spring time with flowers blooming and songs singing, so says the bible.  Even in Israel, that still translates to April-ish not December.  It snows in Jerusalem in December.\n\nBefore Christmas was Christmas it was known as Appollo's birthday as well as Mithras.  Both popular religious sects in Rome, before Christianity was founded (yes I did just say founded, read up some)  There was an old belief that the Holly King and the Oak King were born opposite one another on the yearly cycle.  The easiest way to explain this idea is the winter king and the summer king.  winter king was born in December (or snow) so that his rule would be transfered at the height of summer.  summer king was born in the height of summer so his crown would transfer at the height of winter.  Appollo was thought to be the holly/winter king and his birthfeast was afixed to december.  more than likely around the solstice December 20th or 21st.  As Christianity absorbed these sects the traditions came with them.  the apple was the signature fruit of Appolo.\n\nNow the celebration of Christmas had always been a somber and less than joyful celebration.  In the English area, the commoners celebrated Yule, while the nobils or rather highborns celebrated christmas....they were christians.  Once Christianity became the adopted form of religion Yule was prohibted, but again since Christianity was a Roman creation....it followed the roman ways, adopting things and calling it theirs.\n\nThe Christmas celebration had always been much tamer in the Protestant homes as they concentrated on the sacrifices Jesus made, until....\n\nOne English Queen married a German Nobil and the German Tradition (which was really a leftover from the Viking Era) was the Christmas tree.  This now German born English King refused to give up his winter/yule tradition and thusly the Christmas Tree tradition was born as everyone wanted to be like the Queen.  \n\nThen in the early 18th century, Christmas became a little less formal and more of a family affair about brotherly love and so forth.\n\nChristmas has seen a huge change since it's inception.  Anything to party and have fun, right?  Every reason is a reason to get together.
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Depends: Eastern Orhodox's Good Friday or the regular Good Friday?
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1) The appearance of the Star was supposed to be a miraculous event.  Tracking naturally repeating occurrences may or may not show anything.\n\n2) I do not feel Christmas needs to be moved.  The important thing is that we celebrate Jesus' birth, not that we have the exact day correct.\n\n3) The day of 25 Dec was chosen EXACTLY because of Saturnalia...and much the same reason that Jewish people today give lavish gifts as Hanukkah.  Christian leaders (1) wanted their followers to be able to continue in traditions, (2) not be left out of festivities, and (3) convert others.
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The origin of the Friday the 13th superstition has been linked to the belief that there were 13 people at the last supper of Jesus, who was crucified on Good Friday, but it probably originated in medieval times. It has also been linked to the fact that a lunisolar calendar must have 13 months in some years, while the solar Gregorian calendar and lunar Islamic calendar always have 12 months in a year. Another suggestion is that the belief originated in a Norse myth about twelve gods having a feast in Valhalla. The mischievous Loki gate-crashed the party as an uninvited 13th guest and arranged for Hod, the blind god of darkness, to throw a branch of mistletoe at Balder, the god of joy and gladness. Balder was killed instantly and the Earth was plunged into darkness and mourning as a result.\n\nSome also say that the arrest of Jaques de Molay, Grand Master of the Knights Templar, and 60 of his senior knights on Friday, October 13, 1307 by King Philip IV of France, is the origin of this superstition. That day thousands of Templars were arrested and subsequently tortured. They then 'confessed' and were executed. From that day on, Friday the 13th was considered by followers of the Templars as an evil and unlucky day.