Because the christians stole it from the pagans. It used to be a pagan festival, and the pagans worshipped all sorts of stuff - the date of Easter is set according to when the full moon appears, its something like the second Sunday after the full moon in March.
The date of Easter is based on the lunar cycle, not the calendar year. So it falls on the same day each year, not the same date.
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To work it out:
Easter is not fixed in relation to the civil calendar, it falls on the first Sunday after the full moon following the northern hemisphere's vernal equinox.
Easter can never occur before March 22 or later than April 25. The usual statement, that Easter Day is the first Sunday after the full moon that occurs next after the vernal equinox, is not a precise statement of the actual ecclesiastical rules. The full moon involved is not the astronomical Full Moon but an ecclesiastical moon (determined from tables) that keeps, more or less, in step with the astronomical Moon.
The ecclesiastical rules are:
It's based on the lunar calendar, which moves up and down the calendar within a certain window. Each year is 11 days shorter than the next and begins 11 days earlier--plus a leap year. BTW--it's always on a Sunday!
Easter is the Sunday closest to the first full moon following the Spring Equinox. The lunar calendar does not coincide with the solar calendar.
As it is not a birthday, the same date, and it has to fall on a sunday, that is why it never falls on the same day.
In Germany Easter is celebrated on the same day as everywhere in Western Christendom.
Each country celebrates Easter in a different way. Easter is most countries is celebrated on the same date (April 24, 2011). On Easter people go to church and have parties and stuff like that. Also kids find eggs and eat chocolate bunnies.
No. While there are Christian Turks who celebrate Easter, most Turks are Muslim or Agnostic and there is no holiday celebrated on Easter Monday.
Easter I'm told Easter is very much the same where it is celebrated, except for a few local customs.
Easter is celebrated practically the same as it is in America except there is no Easter Bunny, since they are not commercialized. It's called "Pascha" in Russia and centers more around the religious meaning than it does in the United States.
tyhe same way americans do it. hunt eggs, and have dinner. '
Easter Sunday falls AFTER the first full moon AFTER the Vernal Equinox. While the date for the Vernal Equinox is the same every year, the phases of the moon do not fall on the same date. This is why Easter Sunday is a different date each year. The earliest possible date for Easter Sunday is March 22. The latest possible date is April 25. This year (2011) Easter Sunday falls on April 24.
No, Thanksgiving doesn't always fall on the same date every year, just like Easter.
Unduvap Full Moon Poya Day is celebrated in Sri Lanka. Unification Day is celebrated September 6th in Bulgaria. Union Day is celebrated December 1st in Romania. Uprising Day is celebrated October 11th in Macedonia.
The same day your Easter is.(If you programmed your wii to the correct date.)
Orthodox Easter is the date when Eastern Orthodox Christians throughout the world celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. This year, Orthodox Easter is on 27 April 2008, according to the Julian Calendar. The Western Christians (Catholics and Protestants) now use the Gregorian Calendar to calculate their Easter. Orthodox Easter is also known as 'Pascha' in Greek, and has continued to be celebrated in the same way by Orthodox Christians for over 2,000 years.