Easter is celebrated on the first Sunday after the Paschal full moon, which is the first full moon on or after 21 March a fixed approximation of the March equinox. Catholic Easter Sunday in was on Sunday, April 23rd. Orthodox Easter Sunday in was celebrated 7 days later, on Sunday, April 30th. The simple standard definition of Easter is that it is the first Sunday after the full Moon that occurs on or after the spring equinox.
If the full Moon falls on a Sunday then Easter is the next Sunday. Easter Sunday is not a public holiday. It falls on Sunday, April 4, and most businesses follow regular Sunday opening hours in United States. The rule is that Easter is the Sunday after the full moon that is next after the March equinox.
In , the equinox was on March 20 at UTC. The full moon crested less than four hours later on March 21 at UTC. Last Updated: 25 days ago — Authors : 14 — Contributors : 32 — References : 32 interviews and posts; 12 Videos. Discover all about your fav. Your email address will not be published. Username or Email Address. Please note that some of them are only observed by the Roman Catholic church while other by most of the Christian churches around the world.
Their "popularity" also varies from country to country. Easter is a moveable holiday meaning that its date varies from year to year. In Western churches, like the Roman Catholic Church, which use the Gregorian calendar , the earliest possible date is March 22, while the latest is April However, these are very rare — the next time Easter falls on April 25 is in the year , and the next time the date is March 22 will be in the year The most common date between the year and is April Eastern churches, including the Eastern Orthodox Church, use the Julian calendar , therefore the date usually differs from the Gregorian calendar, even though the dates are computed in a similar way.
The date of Easter is determined as the first Sunday after the Paschal full moon falling on or next after the spring equinox March 21 — a fixed date not the real, astronomical equinox. The Paschal full moon refers to the 14th day of the ecclesiastical lunar month and not the real, astronomical Full Moon, and its date is determined from tables. However, most often the two dates coincide, and between the year and there are only 18 differences between the dates calculated using the two methods.
A well-known method of calculating the date of Easter was given by Carl Friedrich Gauss, however a simpler method was described by Jean Meeus in [1].
The first Christians followed the biblical Hebrew calendar and timed the observance of Easter in relation to the date of the Jewish Passover. Passover was celebrated by the Israelites to commemorate their deliverance from the slavery in Egypt.
The Passover meal was eaten at sunset on the 14th day of Nisan Aviv. Jesus was crucified on the 14th and rose from the dead some time before sunrise on the 16th day of Nisan. Because the Jews got away from the biblical Hebrew calendar in AD and further in AD , and because the Christians wanted the date to be independent of the Jewish calendar, the First Council of Nicaea AD established the independent and uniform calculation of the Easter date.
In many countries, Easter is a public holiday , and as it always falls on Sunday, some countries also have Easter Monday as a public holiday, including Australia, Germany and Ireland. It marks a transition from dark into light, despair to hope, spiritual emptiness to spiritual newness. Although celebrated Holy Saturday evening, it is the dramatic Easter vigil liturgy that marks the beginning of Easter.
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