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In 2025, both Churches will celebrate Easter on Sunday 20 April. There have been talks of fixing the date of Easter but, for the foreseeable future, it will remain a movable feast.
- When is Easter? Well, it depends... - BBC Teach
Easter is the most famous movable feast in our calendar. Its...
- Why can’t the date of Easter be fixed? - BBC News
Easter is a "moveable feast" and this is the earliest for...
- When is Easter? Well, it depends... - BBC Teach
Easter is the most famous movable feast in our calendar. Its date appears to change unpredictably from year to year, and different branches of Christianity disagree on when exactly it should be...
Mar 25, 2016 · Easter is a "moveable feast" and this is the earliest for almost a decade. That's thanks to the complex system that developed from trying to calculate the date of Easter (and the Jewish...
In the solar calendar Easter is called a moveable feast since its date varies within a 35-day range. But in the lunar calendar, Easter is always the third Sunday in the paschal lunar month, and is no more "moveable" than any holiday that is fixed to a particular day of the week and week within a month, such as Thanksgiving .
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Since the days of early church history, determining the precise date of Easter has been a matter for continued argument. For one, the followers of Christ neglected to record the exact date of Jesus' resurrection. From that point on the matter only grew increasingly more complex.
At the heart of the matter lies a simple explanation. Easter is a movable feast. The earliest believers in the church of Asia Minor wished to keep the observance of Easter correlated to the Jewish Passover. The death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ happened after the Passover, so followers wanted Easter always to be celebrated after the P...
Prior to 325 A.D., Easter was celebrated on the Sunday immediately following the first full moon after the vernal (spring) equinox. At the Council of Nicaea in 325 A.D., the Western Church decided to establish a more standardized system for determining the date of Easter. Today in Western Christianity, Easter is always celebrated on the Sunday imme...
Historically, Western churches used the Gregorian Calendar to calculate the date of Easter and Eastern Orthodox churches used the Julian Calendar. This was partly why the dates were seldom the same. Easter and its related holidays do not fall on a fixed date in either the Gregorian or Julian calendars, making them movable holidays. The dates, inste...
Apr 1, 2024 · Easter is set to fall much later in 2025 than in 2024. Good Friday is set to fall on Friday, 18 April; Easter Sunday is set to fall on 20 April, and Easter Monday is set to fall on 21 April.
Not all observances are feasts, and among those that are moveable is the Lenten fast, which is held for the 40 days prior to Easter.
