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How do they decide what day Easter is going to fall on each year?
It's always on a different day each year. It doesn't have a simple rule of when it will fall like Thanksgiving does, either. Sometimes it's in March! How do they determine the day?
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
This was decided by the Council of Nicaea, the same people who picked the books to go into the New Testament.
They decided it would be the first Sunday after the first full moon, following the Spring Equinox (the day when day and night are exactly the same length).
The equinox is considered (by the church) to be March 21, so Easter varies between March 22 and April 25.
- clodfelterLv 45 years ago
Easter has continuously been a movable dinner occasion. till A.D. 325 Easter replaced into celebrated on Friday, Saturday or Sunday in March. The Emperor Constantine desperate to attempt and connect a definitive date, yet regrettably left it in the palms of the bureaucrats, and the Council of Nicaea got here up with an extremely complicated equipment. Their Easter Rule reported that the competition must be celebrated on the 1st Sunday that happens after the 1st finished moon, on or after the vernal equinox. To make the date much extra good to artwork out the ecclesiastical finished moon in lots of cases falls on a distinctive day from the astronomical finished moon. yet Easter will continuously be between the dates of March 22 and April 25. i wish it is a few help!
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Determining the day - superior idea
