Can christians explain for once and for all why easter constantly changes dates?

Easter is calculated to follow Passover which is based on the lunar calendar.

In 2012, Easter will be on Sunday, April 8.

Catholics and most Protestants use the new Gregorian calendar decreed by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582 to calculate the date of Easter.

For more information, see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar

http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/easter.php

The time of Easter 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 2012, the vernal equinox will be on Tuesday, March 20. The first full moon after that will be Friday, April 6. Thus, Easter will be on Sunday, April 8.

The earliest Easter can be is March 22 as it was last in 1818 and will be next in 2285.

The latest Easter can be is April 25 as it was last in 1943 and will be next in 2038.

With love in Christ.

The original Easter was on a Sunday.

Washington and Lincolns birthdays are always celebrated on the same Monday.

Easter is a moveable feast, meaning it is not fixed in relation to the civil calendar. The First Council of Nicaea (325) established the date of Easter as the first Sunday after the full moon (the Paschal Full Moon) following the northern hemisphere's vernal equinox.[3] Ecclesiastically, the equinox is reckoned to be on March 21 (even though the equinox occurs, astronomically speaking, on March 20 in most years), and the "Full Moon" is not necessarily the astronomically correct date. The date of Easter therefore varies between March 22 and April 25. Eastern Christianity bases its calculations on the Julian Calendar whose March 21 corresponds, during the 21st century, to the 3rd of April in the Gregorian Calendar, in which calendar their celebration of Easter therefore varies between April 4 and May 8.

The calendar used to commemorate the death of Jesus is based on the Jewish calendar that was used in the first century. The Jewish day begins at sundown and extends to the following sundown. So Jesus died on the same Jewish calendar day that he instituted the Memorial [ the Lords Evening meal] that is known in Christendom as the ''Last Sipper''!

The beginning of the month of Nisan was the sunset after the new moon nearest the spring equinox became visible in Jerusalem. The Memorial date is 14 days thereafter.

Thus the date does not coincide with that of the Passover kept by modern day Jews, because their calendar month is set to coincide with the astronomical new moon, not the visible new moon over Jerusalem, which may come 18-30 hours later. Also most Jews keep the Passover on Nisan 15 and not the 14th as did Jesus in harmony with the Mosaic law.

The calendar commonly used today differs somewhat to that used in the first century by the Jews,

today we use the Gregorian calendar of 12 months, totalling 365 days, there was not a fixed form of the Jewish calendar until the 4rth Century CE, [AD], this has 13 moths of either 29 or 30 days.

Add on to that the fact that Christendom's celebrations contain many things adopted from pagan festivals. such as Easter with its eggs and rabbits, and doesn't use the the original date set by Jesus for the purpose he did, [see Luke 22:14-20 ; 1Corinthians 11:23-26] it is then easier to see why there is such a big difference year on year.

We, Jehovah's Witnesses, keep to the date set by Jesus, and observe the Memorial on Nisan 14 after sundown.This is on Thursday 5th April this year and 29th March next year. It was on 17th April last year. This shows the result of using different calendars for secular and religious purposes.

Is is deemed important for Easter to always fall on the Sunday because that was the day of the week that Jesus supposedly rose from the dead. It fitted into a equinox calender but was designed that Easter always be a Sunday.

Easter falls on the 1st sunday after the 1st comprehensive moon of the spring equinox. Why it strikes approximately. Why that's going to by no ability incredibly fall till now than March 20 incredibly. sometime in some years from now I heard that's going to fall on the 21 March. uncertain of the 300 and sixty 5 days yet I do think of this is sometime till now the tip of the century.

FIRST OF ALL TRUE CHRISTIANS DON'T CELEBRATE EASTER. THIS IS MANS TRADITION NOT GODS...AND I'LL EXPLAIN WHY. IF YOUN GO BACK TO THE OLD HEBREW LANGUAGE ... EASTER IS TRANSLATED FROM ESHTAR, ESHTAR WAS THE FERTILITY GODDESS THAT THE THE PAGANS CELEBRATED EVERY YEAR, AND IT FELL ON ABOUT THE SAME DAY AS PASSOVER. WHAT THEY DID IS THE YOUNG PEOPLE WOULD GO UP TO THE HIGH PLACES THEIR CEREMONIAL GROUNDS USUALLY ON A MOUNTAIN OR IN A FIELD, ONE OF THE TRADITIONS THEY HAD WOULD BE ROLLING EGGS WITH STICKS AND THEN THEY WOULD HAVE ORGIES AS PART OF THE CELEBRATION. TRUE CHRISTIANS CELEBRATE PASSOVER AND NOT BUNNIES, ORGIES, AND EGG ROLLING. AGAIN THIS IS MAS TRADITON AND NOT GODS. THE BIBLE SAYS THE FIRST ONES TO BE JUDGED ARE THE ONES BEHIND THE PULPETS, TEACHING FALSE WORDS.. I HOPE THIS HELP AND GOD BLESS. PS YOU MIGHT WANT TO LOOK UP THE SUN CALENDER. WE GO BY THE MOON CALENDER. FROM THE SUN CALENDER AND THE BIBLE YOU CAN GET AN IDEA OF CERTAIN DATES WITH THE BIBLE..THE SUN CALENDER IS THE TRUE CALENDER AND WHAT THEY USED AT THE TIME...SORRY I COULDN'T HELP YOU MUCH MORE BUT I HOPE THIS HELPS....GOD BLESS

Easter has been taken over by companies to make money. most people associate easter with bunnies, not the rising of Christ.

I think because there is deep disagreement on which day it actually it is on. Plus there are beliefs on which day is actually the Sabbath. Some say it is Saturday, some say it Sunday.

lt's not really that surprising and doesn't effect anything.

Nobody wants your stupid points. You just hate Christians. Ya bigot!

Because Easter is not a Christian holiday. Christians can pretend that it is all they want, but it's just not.

It's a Catholic thing. Here ya go:

http://catholicism.about.com/od/holydaysandholiday...