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"The 'Lost' Irish 84-year Easter Table Rediscovered", Peritia, 6–7 (1987–88): pp. 227–242. Mosshammer, Alden A. The Easter Computus and the Origins of the Christian Era. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. ISBN 0-19-954312-7. Walsh, Maura and Ó Cróinín, Dáibhí. Cummian's Letter De controversia paschali and the De ratione ...
In Western Christianity, using the Gregorian calendar, Easter always falls on a Sunday between 22 March and 25 April, [89] within about seven days after the astronomical full moon. [90] The preceding Friday, Good Friday, and following Monday, Easter Monday, are legal holidays in many countries with predominantly Christian traditions. [91]
In Western Christianity, Easter Tuesday is the third day of Eastertide, as well as the third day in the Octave of Easter. [1]In the Lutheran Churches, the Gospel for Easter Tuesday concerns St. Luke's account of Jesus' disciples in the Upper Room.
On Easter morning, many Christians wake before dawn to celebrate their belief in the resurrection of Jesus, the son of God — as the sun rises. For the majority of the world’s Christians ...
Since Western Christianity uses the Gregorian calendar, Easter typically falls on a Sunday between March 22 and April 25, according to the History Channel. In Eastern Orthodox Christianity, the ...
Despite using calendars that are apart by 13 days, Western Easter and Orthodox Easter occasionally fall on the same date, as happened in 2010, 2011, 2014, and 2017. For example, according to the Western (Gregorian) calendar, the first Paschal Full Moon after the Spring Equinox (March 21) fell on Monday, April 14, 2014.
In 2024 he again called on "Western and Eastern Christians to celebrate Easter on the same date, starting from 2025". [ 33 ] According to international standards , Easter Sunday ends the week containing Good Friday and the week of the second Sunday in April has the ordinal number 14 or 15 ( dominical letters D/DC, E/ED, F/FE and GF, i.e. 46.25% ...
Easter is a religious Christian holiday observed around the world to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the spiritual leader of Christianity—and to Christians, the Son of God.