Catholics, why celebrate lenten seasons on different dates?

Seems as if you have it in for the catholics, but most organized religions celebrate that season according to how the moon and the stars are at that time of the year, and not according to a specific date. I hope this clears up your misunderstanding about that particular holiday season.

In Western Christianity, Lent is the era (or season) from Ash Wednesday to Maundy Thursday. Easter consistently falls on a Sunday between March 22 and April 25, extra or less comparable to early spring interior the Northern Hemisphere. Ash Wednesday, that would fall everywhere between February 4 and March 10, happens 40-six days in the previous Easter, yet Lent is inspite of the shown fact that seen to be 40 days long, with the aid of shown fact that Sundays in this season are no longer counted between the days of Lent. the classic rationalization for it rather is that fasting became into seen irrelevant on Sunday, the day commemorating the Resurrection of Jesus. Easter celebrates the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, at the same time as Lent is a time of training for Holy Week. Holy Week remembers the activities previous and by means of the crucifixion, which got here approximately interior the Jerusalem of the Roman province Judea, circa advert 30.

Lent is counted back from Easter. The date for Easter is set this way: It is the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox. The equinox, or first day of spring, is always on the same date, so it depends on the phase of the moon at the time. This is what's known as a "moveable feast." (Feast meaning "feast day.") It's not the literal day of the crucifixion, although people will be silly and tell you it really took place on a Friday and that Jesus died at 3:00 in the afternoon (in what time zone, I have no idea).

Easter and the holidays that are related to it are moveable feasts, in that they do not fall on a fixed date in the Gregorian or Julian calendars (both of which follow the cycle of the sun and the seasons). Instead, the date for Easter is determined on a lunisolar calendar, as is the Jewish Calendar.

In Western Christianity, Easter always falls on a Sunday from March 22 to April 25. Easter marks the end of the forty days of Lent, a period of fasting and penitence in preparation for Easter which begins on Ash Wednesday.

Lent moves because Easter moves.

Easter moves because Passover moves.

The time of Passover is based on the cycles of the moon, the equinox, and seasons and things in nature.

In simple (?) terms Easter occurs on the first Sunday following the first full moon that occurs on or after the day of the vernal equinox (the first day of spring).

In 2008 the vernal equinox will be on Thursday, March 20. The first full moon after that will be Friday, March 21. Thus, Easter will be on Sunday, March 23.

With love in Christ.

Lent is 40 days of preparation for the annual celebration of Christ's death and resurrection, which is based on the date of Easter, which varies from year to year, as does Passover.

The bible sheds no additional light on this matter.

Catholics also celebrate Christ's death and resurrection at Mass ... every hour of every day, every day of every year, all around the world ... properly commemorating Jesus' death ... until he comes again.

Have you noticed that Easter for all Christians falls on a different day and month every year.

There's a connection in case you hadn't noticed....Lent & Easter.

Read a book.

bo, bookish. easter is determined from ash wednesday.

Because the rotation of earth is different....

Do you know what Passover is, Troll?