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What day is Easter?
How is it determanded what day Easter will fall on each year? I know it has something to do with the moon.
6 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
According to my Anglican 1928 BCP:
"Easter Day, on which the rest depend, is always the first Sunday after the full moon, which happens upon or next after the Twenty-first Day of March: and if the full moon happen upon a Sunday, Easter Day is the Sunday after."
"But note, that the full moon, for the purposes of these Rules and Tables is the Fourteenth Day of a Lunar Month, reckoned according to an ancient Ecclesiastical computation, and not the real or Astronomical Full Moon."
It will be the 23rd of March this year.
- prophet4000Lv 41 decade ago
With Western Easter it is determined by the Sunday after the first Full Moon after the Vernal Equinox. For the Eastern Easter I think it occurs on the first Sunday after Passover starts.
- 1 decade ago
It is on the Spring Equinox. This year it is March 23rd. Easter comes from the word Ostra a pagan celebration of the Spring Equinox. When the number of hours of day and night are equal.
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