When Is Easter? This has always been a very
good question because there was a time when Easter was moved around from day to
day. The pagan celebration of Easter occurred each year at the same time that
the Christians were celebrating the miraculous resurrection of their savior
Jesus Christ. This was during the spring equinox. Some of the pagan beliefs
centered around Attis while others were more concerned with the coming of the
spring. But each year Easter was celebrated on a different day of the week,
sometimes it was a Sunday, others a Monday, it has even been on a Friday and a
Saturday. This was a very long time ago, only about 300 or so years after Jesus
died.
At about that time people decided that it might be a better idea to have Easter
occur on the same day of the week each year and so it was written. This meeting
happened between Constantine and some of the other important people of the times
in 325 AD. And ever since then Easter has been on a Sunday.
To be more specific this “Easter Rule” states that Easter will be celebrated on
the first Sunday that has a full moon after the vernal equinox. Sometimes it is
on the vernal equinox as opposed to actually after it, but you get the meaning.
There is some discord between the actual dates of the full moons and the
ecclesiastical full moons, which lead to Easter being celebrated between the
dates of March 22 and April 25 each year.
This might be confusing but it is just the way that Easter has always been
chosen. That is why we have calendars, they tell us when Easter is going to be
each year. Honestly I don’t know what I would do without mine!
The fact of the matter is that while it is important that we know when Easter is
so that we can celebrate it, the most important thing is that we bring our
families together at this time in order to rejoice in the fact that we have
family to gather. Not everyone is so lucky, these people do not have friends and
families to share Easter with, so feel blessed and feel hopeful, whether you are
religious or not this year.
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