What day of the week does Easter Sunday fall on?
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It ALWAYS falls on a Sunday.
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A friend once told me, "Easter is on a sunday this year". I let it slide.
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"Keep Jesus Going"\nEaster is on the second Sunday of April 2007; you could have Easter-type celebrations each Sunday of the month.
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Easter is an annual festival observed throughout the Christian world. The date for Easter shifts every year within the Gregorian Calendar. The Gregorian Calendar is the standard international calendar for civil use. In addition, it regulates the ceremonial cycle of the Roman Catholic and Protestant churches. The current Gregorian ecclesiastical rules that determine the date of Easter trace back to 325 CE at the First Council of Nicaea convened by the Roman Emperor Constantine. At that time the Roman world used the Julian Calendar (put in place by Julius Caesar). \n\nThe Council decided to keep Easter on a Sunday, the same Sunday throughout the world. To fix incontrovertibly the date for Easter, and to make it determinable indefinitely in advance, the Council constructed special tables to compute the date. These tables were revised in the following few centuries resulting eventually in the tables constructed by the 6th century Abbot of Scythia, Dionysis Exiguus. Nonetheless, different means of calculations continued in use throughout the Christian world. \n\nIn 1582 Gregory XIII (Pope of the Roman Catholic Church) completed a reconstruction of the Julian calendar and produced new Easter tables. One major difference between the Julian and Gregorian Calendar is the "leap year rule". See our FAQ on Calendars for a description of the difference. Universal adoption of this Gregorian calendar occurred slowly. By the 1700's, though, most of western Europe had adopted the Gregorian Calendar. The Eastern Christian churches still determine the Easter dates using the older Julian Calendar method. \n\nThe 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. \n\nThe ecclesiastical rules are: \n\nEaster falls on the first Sunday following the first ecclesiastical full moon that occurs on or after the day of the vernal equinox; \nthis particular ecclesiastical full moon is the 14th day of a tabular lunation (new moon); and \nthe vernal equinox is fixed as March 21. \nresulting in that Easter can never occur before March 22 or later than April 25. The Gregorian dates for the ecclesiastical full moon come from the Gregorian tables. Therefore, the civil date of Easter depends upon which tables - Gregorian or pre-Gregorian - are used. The western (Roman Catholic and Protestant) Christian churches use the Gregorian tables; many eastern (Orthodox) Christian churches use the older tables based on the Julian Calendar. \nIn a congress held in 1923, the eastern churches adopted a modified Gregorian Calendar and decided to set the date of Easter according to the astronomical Full Moon for the meridian of Jerusalem. However, a variety of practices remain among the eastern churches. \n\nThere are three major differences between the ecclesiastical system and the astronomical system. \n\nThe times of the ecclesiastical full moons are not necessarily identical to the times of astronomical Full Moons. The ecclesiastical tables did not account for the full complexity of the lunar motion. \nThe vernal equinox has a precise astronomical definition determined by the actual apparent motion of the Sun as seen from the Earth. It is the precise time at which the apparent ecliptic longitude of the Sun is zero. (Yes, the Sun's ecliptic longitude, not its declination, is used for the astronomical definition.) This precise time shifts within the civil calendar very slightly from year to year. In the ecclesiastical system the vernal equinox does not shift; it is fixed at March 21 regardless of the actual motion of the Sun. \nThe date of Easter is a specific calendar date. Easter starts when that date starts for your local time zone. The vernal equinox occurs at a
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No.  Easter is ALWAYS the first Sunday after the first full moon  after the first day of Spring.  That was probably decided eons ago by the Catholic Church.   There is rhyme and reason to holidays.\nMemorial day is the last Monday in May, Labor Day the first Monday in September.  Thanksgiving the 3rd Thursday in November.  Those are American dates and were decided by Congress.\n\nBut you get the picture on why the date may be different, right?\n\nI guarantee your birthday will be on Easter once again.  Here is a great website that goes up to the year 9999 for Easter dates.\n\nAnd yeah, below is right, I forgot my Catholic School lessons on the date and I had a brain fart.  Of course it is the first Sunday after the first full moon after the first day of Spring.  \n\nMy daughter's birthday is April 16 and she is 22 and I believe Easter has fallen on her birthdate 3 times.\nEaster can be no earlier than March 22 and no later than April 25.  I went up to the year 2040 and Easter did not fall again on your birthday.  I can't give you an explanation for that.
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Easter is a holiday celebrating the resurrection of Christ..
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easter is the day that jesus ressurected and people celebrate it to honor that.  its the day that lint is over and most (religious) people go to church.  the whole easter egg thing probably began because eggs symbolize life and whatnot and somewhere in the past it turned into a hunt for children to do.  and easter is always celebrated on the 3rd sunday of april.  the wednesday before is passover and the friday before is good friday.
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Sunday, May 14th.\n\nHave a wonderul day!
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Easter will be on April 8 in 2007.
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According to my source (below): " In 325 A.D., the church declared that Easter was to “be on the Sunday that followed the first full moon after the spring equinox."
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April 14th is Good Friday.  I'm not sure if is a national holiday because it involves Easter and not everyone celebrates Easter.
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is the spring holiday,celebrated the Sunday following Easter. It is the celebration of the passage of another cold winter,accompanied by ( hopefully) warm weather and trees which are starting to bud. It is a popular day for getting married.
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april 15th \naries \nyes
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on palm Sunday or the Sunday before the resurrection when Jesus was going back to Israel he asked his followers to bring him a clean young donkey to carry him into the city \nfor the passover festival \nresurrection is the day (Easter Sunday) the Jesus rose from the dead \ni hope this helps if not then read the bible \nhave a happy and holy Easter weekend
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Easter is the Christian celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus after he had been buried for 3 days after his crucifixion. the best way to find out the story is to look in the Bible.\n\nMatthew chapter 26-28\nMark Chapter 14-16\nLuke chapter 22-24\nJohn Chapter 13-21\n\nor if you can watch the movie "The Passion of The Christ"\nif you have cable it will be on Showtime on Saturday night @9pm EST.
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My church is having Easter service the Saturday before Easter for the members and on Easter Sunday all of the nonmembers are invited to come to our church. Happy Easter to you too!
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The calculation of the date of Easter is the job of the Pope of Rome.  Until the split both groups used the Julian calendar.  After the split, Gregory changed the calendar and added leap days.  If you do not acknowledge Rome, you use the existing calendar used by the apostles.  It is not technically the first Sunday after the first full moon after the equinox.  It is the first Sunday after the first paschal moon on or after March 21st.  The paschal moon is a calculated moon not a real full moon.  The ancients didn't have sufficient computing power to predict the full moon that far in advance so they substituted the paschal moon.  Because of Gregory's calendar reforms and improved computation, it is possible to know the date of Easter well into the future.  It is no longer a practical obligation of the Pope to announce the date of Pascha (Easter in English language speaking countries).