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A few change every year, and, of course, the entire liturgical calendar changes each year, as it is built around Sundays, not calendar dates; and Easter, which is the determined according to a rather complicated formula:

In 325CE the Council of Nicaea established that Easter would be held on the first Sunday after the first full moon occurring on or after the vernal equinox. From that point forward, the Easter date depended on the ecclesiastical approximation of March 21 for the vernal equinox.

Easter is delayed by 1 week if the full moon is on Sunday, which decreases the chances of it falling on the same day as the Jewish Passover. The council's ruling is contrary to the Quartodecimans, a group of Christians who celebrated Easter on the day of the full moon, 14 days into the month.

The rest of the dates are based on calendar dates, like Christmas always falls on the 25 of December, so the four Sundays of Advent (which precede Christmas) would be the four Sundays that fall before December 25, and the Annunciation is always on March 25. All saints days fall on a particular date unless they are superseded by a Sunday. And the rest of the Sundays of the year are built around the date of Easter. So they would change each year.

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