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The paschal or Easter-month is the first one in the year to have its fourteenth day (its formal full moon) on or after 21 March. Easter is the Sunday after its 14th day (or, saying the same thing, the Sunday within its third week). The paschal lunar month always begins on a date in the 29-day period from 8 March to 5 April inclusive.
Easter, [nb 1] also called Pascha [nb 2] (Aramaic, Greek, Latin), Resurrection Sunday, or Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord, [nb 3] is a Christian festival and cultural holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, described in the New Testament as having occurred on the third day of his burial following his crucifixion by the Romans at Calvary c. 30 AD.
Easter Sunday changes dates year-to-year. This year, Easter is on Sunday, April 9, 2023. How is the Easter date determined? The holiday occurs on the Sunday after the first full moon following the ...
Easter for both East and West is calculated as the first Sunday after the full moon that falls on or after March 21 (nominally the day of the vernal equinox), but the Orthodox calculations are based on the Julian calendar, whose March 21 corresponds at present with April 3 of the Gregorian calendar, and on calculations of the date of full moon ...
Easter's exact date varies so much because it actually depends on the moon. The holiday is set to coincide with the first Sunday after the Paschal Full Moon, the first full moon after the vernal ...
Easter at the Ag Museum MS Egg Marketing’s Easter at the Ag Museum will be Sat March 30th, from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. It will feature a bunny trail filled with eggs, activities, and more.
Both calendars (Gregorian and Julian) calculate Easter as falling on dates between March 22 and April 25 on their calendars. However, because of the current 13-day difference, Western Easter falls between March 10 and April 12 on the Julian calendar. Conversely, Orthodox Easter falls between April 4 and May 8 on the Gregorian calendar.
Easter is fast approaching. For Christians, it's a time to celebrate the belief in the resurrection of Jesus Christ. For non-Christians, it's a time to hunt for colorful eggs left by the Easter bunny.