Why Easter Sunday calendared in different months?
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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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Because Easter is a Moveable Feast - it isn't celebrated on one particular date.
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Good Friday for the next 3 years is 2007-6 April 2008-Mar 21 2009-April 10\n\nEaster Sunday is 2007 8 April 2008-23 March 2009-12 April
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I think that some of the people answering this question would benefit greatly from an elementary history lesson. Easter, in it's original form, was very much a Pagan holiday.  You can deny it until you're blue in the face, that doesn't change history.\n\nWhen Christians were forcing people to convert, they took over the Pagan holidays because it was easier to manipulate those holidays than it was to get Pagans to celebrate new ones.  So, they took over our holidays, built their churches on our sacred space and called it a day.  That's history, not opinion.  It's fact, look it up.
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There is more than one liturgial calendar, different denominations use different ones... however... one resource for you is textweek.com it does the lectionary online, so does Vanderbuilt University.  The seasons are similar; Advent (Dec. 3-24, 2005) is purple (or blue), Christmas (Dec. 25- varies) is White, Lent (Feb. 21-April 4) is purple, Good Friday is often Black. Easter (Apl. 7 - varies) is white, common time is Green (your right) and Pentecost (May 27) is Red.
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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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IN THE SPRING, MOST CULTURES CELEBRATE FERTILITY.  WE KNOW THAT BUNNIES PRODUCE PRODIGIOUSLY, AND EGGS REPRESENT NEW LIFE.  IN MAKING CHRISTIANY UNDERSTANDABLE TO PAGAN CULTURES, MISSIONARIES USED THE PAGAN SYMBOLS TO ASSIST IN TEACHING CHRISTIAN TRUTH.  EASTER IS CELEBRATED IN THE SPRING.  THUS IT WAS IMPORTANT TO HARMOMIZE THE LIFE AND TRUTH OF THE CHRISTIAN MESSAGE TO THE SPRING CELEBRATIONS OF FERTILITY & NEW LIFE IN OTHER CULTURES.
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For those of us who believe.  Easter is when we take the time to remember/reflect the time when our Savior Jesus Christ was sacrificed on the cross in order to save our souls, so that we may be forgiven our sins and allowed to enter the kingdom of heaven.
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2059 is the next time Easter Sunday will be the 30th of March!\nIn 2043 & 2054 it will be on march 29th,\nin 2013 & 2024 it will be on march 31st!
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nope. Easter is a religious holiday. The 1st Amendment prevents the State from recognizing one religion over another.
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In the days of the early Christian church, only Easter Sunday was celebrated as a holy day.  By the fourth century, each day of the week preceding Easter were established as holy days including Good Friday.  To most Christians, Good Friday is really a misnomer in that it was a "bad" Friday—the crucifixion day of Jesus.  Some believe the term "Good" evolved from "God" or God's Friday.  Others believe "good" represents the good gift of salvation brought forth by the martyrdom.  Regardless, it is a holy day throughout the Christian world.\n\nCeremonial worship of the holiday follows closely to the events described in the scriptures.  Some congregations still hold a three hour service on Friday representing the three hours He hanged on the cross.  A typical service includes seven distinct elements representative of Christ's seven utterances while on the cross.
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Not a thing. Before Christians appropriated it, Easter was a fertility festival, and it is clear how bunnies and eggs would factor into that. The paganism of the holiday never really went away, even after Christians began calling it Easter.
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Christmas commemorates the birth of Christ, but He likely was born in the springtime. Dec. 25 was a date that other ancient religious groups had set for their own holiday, and Christians began commemorating Christ's birthday on that date to try to bring those cultures into a dialogue about Christ. As for Easter, it commemorates Christ's resurrection from the dead. Check the links below for more information.
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Easter is important because, it's the Resurrection of \n\nJesus Christ from the dead. \n\nAccording to the Bible, He walked the Earth for three days \n\nand three nights.\n\nEaster is special because, we can believe in miracles.
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This has little to do with Easter/Passover and more to do with the time they occur, during the vernal equinox. The Sun has crossed the equator back into the Northern hemisphere again, and is causing temperature differentials, with which comes great winds as they cause pressure differentials. \nYou will notice similar violent winds during the autumnal equinox, as the Sun recedes behind the equator again. See the source for more details.
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The Date of Easter\n\nbar\n\nEaster is an annual festival observed throughout the Christian world. The date for Easter shifts every year within the Gregorian Calendar. The Gregorian Calendar is the standard international calendar for civil use. In addition, it regulates the ceremonial cycle of the Roman Catholic and Protestant churches. The current Gregorian ecclesiastical rules that determine the date of Easter trace back to 325 CE at the First Council of Nicaea convened by the Roman Emperor Constantine. At that time the Roman world used the Julian Calendar (put in place by Julius Caesar).\n\nThe Council decided to keep Easter on a Sunday, the same Sunday throughout the world. To fix incontrovertibly the date for Easter, and to make it determinable indefinitely in advance, the Council constructed special tables to compute the date. These tables were revised in the following few centuries resulting eventually in the tables constructed by the 6th century Abbot of Scythia, Dionysis Exiguus. Nonetheless, different means of calculations continued in use throughout the Christian world.\n\nIn 1582 Gregory XIII (Pope of the Roman Catholic Church) completed a reconstruction of the Julian calendar and produced new Easter tables. One major difference between the Julian and Gregorian Calendar is the "leap year rule". See our FAQ on Calendars for a description of the difference. Universal adoption of this Gregorian calendar occurred slowly. By the 1700's, though, most of western Europe had adopted the Gregorian Calendar. The Eastern Christian churches still determine the Easter dates using the older Julian Calendar method.\n\nThe usual statement, that Easter Day is the first Sunday after the full moon that occurs next after the vernal equinox, is not a precise statement of the actual ecclesiastical rules. The full moon involved is not the astronomical Full Moon but an ecclesiastical moon (determined from tables) that keeps, more or less, in step with the astronomical Moon.\n\nThe ecclesiastical rules are:\n\n    * Easter falls on the first Sunday following the first ecclesiastical full moon that occurs on or after the day of the vernal equinox;\n    * this particular ecclesiastical full moon is the 14th day of a tabular lunation (new moon); and\n    * the vernal equinox is fixed as March 21. \n\nresulting in that Easter can never occur before March 22 or later than April 25. The Gregorian dates for the ecclesiastical full moon come from the Gregorian tables. Therefore, the civil date of Easter depends upon which tables - Gregorian or pre-Gregorian - are used. The western (Roman Catholic and Protestant) Christian churches use the Gregorian tables; many eastern (Orthodox) Christian churches use the older tables based on the Julian Calendar.\n\nIn a congress held in 1923, the eastern churches adopted a modified Gregorian Calendar and decided to set the date of Easter according to the astronomical Full Moon for the meridian of Jerusalem. However, a variety of practices remain among the eastern churches.\n\nThere are three major differences between the ecclesiastical system and the astronomical system.\n\n    * The times of the ecclesiastical full moons are not necessarily identical to the times of astronomical Full Moons. The ecclesiastical tables did not account for the full complexity of the lunar motion.\n    * The vernal equinox has a precise astronomical definition determined by the actual apparent motion of the Sun as seen from the Earth. It is the precise time at which the apparent ecliptic longitude of the Sun is zero. (Yes, the Sun's ecliptic longitude, not its declination, is used for the astronomical definition.) This precise time shifts within the civil calendar very slightly from year to year. In the ecclesiastical system the vernal equinox does not shift; it is fixed at March 21 regardless of the actual motion of the Sun.\n    * The date of Easter is a specific calendar date. Easter starts when that date starts
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Easter Sunday was on  March 27th, 2005