When is Easter and why does it change every year?
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- Опубликовано: 28 мар 2019
- When is Easter? It seems like a pretty straightforward and easy question right? Just open up your calendar and scroll down to see Easter is on April 21st this year. But keep scrolling and see it lands on April 12th next year, and then on April 4th the year after that. Unlike some of our more trustworthy holidays like Christmas, Halloween, and Valentine’s Day; Easter never actually falls on the same day twice in a row, it’s constantly moving around from year to year. But why? We’re here to help answer that simple yet somehow also very complex question of; when is Easter?
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One thing I like about Thanksgiving every year is not only the food but Thanksgiving has always been on a Thursday every year. Thanksgiving is my #1 favorite holiday out of all of em and Christmas is my #2 favorite
Whew I didn’t realize it’s so complex... I didn’t keep up 🥵
My favorite holiday. The bunnies are so cute. When I was little my parents would arrange a huge egg hunt. It was so much fun with my siblings. Also less stressful then Christmas. It’s just about fun. No “what did who get” and it’s not expensive. And the resurrection story is great news. 🙂 it’s such a happy time. The eggs are fun to paint too. 💕💕💕
Me: "So on what exact day did You resurrect?"
Jesus: "It's complicated..."
Well that was just confusing. We celebrate Christmas 🎄 Jesus birthday on every 25th of December. When people pass, we remember them on that day every year. So Jesus resurrection day is on a Monday 3 days before Good Friday but Easter is traditionally followed on Sunday in the U.S. How can you not get confused.
Some years Easter is in March and other year it’s in April. It’s dumb but true
You really make things complicated. What date is Easter celebrated in Los Aneles, Calif. in 2022? Never mind, my wife already knows.
Still confused!
I am sure Christ wanted all this confusion. Nobody disputes the fact that he was born on Dec. 25th. Why do we change Easter Sunday? How about if we did this with all our holidays? Would that not be fun? What else would all the churches have to do if they could not decide when Easter Sunday will be coming around each year? And what calendar should I use? All holidays should be celebrated on a Monday regardless of what date they fall on. Long weekends are really nice! If Christmas falls in the middle of the week and you have to go back to work the next day, how lame is that? We should have Boxing Day in America. It is a great holiday in the U.K. All the children can play with their new toys. Everyone is knackered the day after Christmas anyway' Just for the sake of the economy, Christmas should come 4 times a year. We would all be exhausted. But maybe it would increase production tremendously. Think of all the loans we could take out to finance Christmas four times a year. Jewelry stores do half their business at Christmas time. Does not matter what faith or no faith you believe in.
I suppose this is entirely a troll comment... but the day Christ was born on... well.. its still debated when it is. There are no reputable sources regarding the exact date nor season he was born in. Some say it was in the summer, others say it was during or after winter. And besides... your idea of Christmas four times a year is not really good. The reason Christmas works so well for the economy is exactly because its once a year. Otherwise it loses its significance and therefore people stop caring about the "holiday".
The crucifixion is described as taking place on a specific date, not a "day", which was 14th Nisan and also the annual Day of Passover in the calendar that Jesus, or Yeshua as He was then called, kept throughout His life. All festivals or feasts in the Bible or "Moadim" in Hebrew, namely "Appointed Times", ordained by none less than God, fell on specific DATES, and did not "change", only the day of the week might change, but the date not (as with Christmas Day on December 25th, which can fall on any day of the week each year).
Thus there was no such concept as a "MOVEABLE FEAST," as Biblical Feasts are FIXED!!
It is only after the original Jewish leadership of the early Church died out that the Gentiles or non-Jews within the Church that had soon reach full predominance, that any changes to the calendar or to the dates of holy days became possible, and much of this was based on anti-Jewish sentiment in the sermons and teachings of the Gentile "Church Fathers" who viewed the Jews, even centuries after the crucifixion, as "Christ killers" (& other pejoratives).
It was custom to ask the Jews when Passover fell each year, but the Gentile Christians soon found this to be indignant and beneath them to ask at a Jewish synagogue for this.
Thus they made up their own "holy days" so as not to be seen as doing anything "Jewish," such as remembering the Lord's death at Passover, but rather passed edicts in which these changes were ratified in numerous Church Councils, the most significant being the Councils of Laodicea and Nicaea in 321 and 325 respectively, out-ruling the Sabbath on the 7th day (Saturday) as in the Fourth Commandment with "Sun"-day, named in honour of the SUN (but not the Son), and by replacing the Passover of the LORD with the new "Easter."
Thus elaboate calculations had to be worked out, as the video correctly points out, in order for their new celebration to fall "near" Passover, but not actually on it necessarily, as they chose to tie the events to "days of the week" rather than to the actual Biblical dates.
However, the Quartodeciman churches founded by the Apostle John across Asia Minor and the later pre-Roman Celtic Church of Britain and Ireland all kept the Sabbath and Passover as opposed to "Sun"-day and "Easter," with even Polycarp in the 190's writing to the Bishop of Rome saying that he shared Passover with the Apostle John and would not accept the new Roman "Easter" in its place, who was later martyred for not denying his faith. The British Church turned Roman after the Synod of Whitby in 664, after King Oswy of Northumbria, England, was swayed by the clever arguments of the Roman clergy over those presented by Colman and the Irish Celtic representatives, who later retreated to the remote isles of Lindisfarne and Iona, whilst all the Celtic church buildings became Roman in time.
The later "Protestants" keep these same Roman Catholic "holy days," such as the Mass of Christ ("Christ-Mass"), "Easter," "Lent" and other such man-made traditions without question. Yes, "Easter" is a complicated convoluted system of calculation, all constructed out of anti-Semitic fervour, rather than just date from the Passover that Yeshua observed! 🙃🤯
all pagan holidays anyway so who cares other then pagans