How The Date Of Easter Is Selected.

By Matthew Clark

The date for Easter shifts every year within the Christian calendar. The Christian calendar is also the Gregorian calendar which is used throughout the western churches, both Roman Catholic and Protestant. The ecclesiastical rules which determine the date of Easter trace back to 325 A.D. at the first council of Nicaea covened by Roman Emperor Constantine. New rules were constucted in 1582 with the adoption of the Gregorian (Pope Gregory 13th) calendar.

These ecclesiastical rules were

1) The vernal equinox occurs on March 21

2) The ecclesiastical full moon is the 14th day of a tabular lunation (new moon) and

3) Easter falls on the first Sunday following the first ecclesiastical full moon that occurs on or after the day of the vernal equinox.

Easter can never occur before March 22, or later than April 25.

Good Friday is the holiest day in the Christian year. Easter is Christianities most celebratory occasion. It is hope realized! I pray that all our readers hopes are realized so that they experience the blessings of our Lord Jesus Christ while attaining the happiness they strive for in their lives,

HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!

References:

aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/easter

The Date Of Easter