Calculation of Easter The
Easter is a holiday so-called mobile: its date varies from year to year because it is correlated with the lunar cycle
. The Passover and Easter Christians follow different rules of calculation and therefore are almost never the same day. Within Christianity then there are two different rules depending on whether you use the Gregorian calendar
(Catholics and Protestants) or the
Julian (Orthodox). These two rules in a few years give the same date (and therefore all Christians celebrate Easter on the same day, and the case this year - ed), different dates in other years.
follows roughly the Christian Easter and Jewish, but differs from that for two reasons: the first is that it is always celebrated on Sunday, the day of resurrection of Jesus, the second is that it is not used for calculating the Jewish calendar.
The rule fixing the date of Easter was established in 325 by the Christian Council
of Nicaea: Easter falls on the Sunday following the first full moon after the spring equinox (March 21).
Consequently, it is always included in the period from March 22 to April 25. Assuming that in fact the first full moon of spring occurs on the day of '
same equinox (March 21) and is a Saturday, then Easter will have the very next day, or March 22. If, however, the full moon occurs on March 20, not until the next full moon (29 days), then getting to 18 April. Finally, if this day was a Sunday, then it will be necessary to fix the date of Easter Sunday even later, namely April 25.
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Happy Easter to all our readers!
... and remember "You can not see Easter or after San Marco (25 / 4), nor before St. Benedict (21 / 3).
PS: next year Easter falls on April 24 ...