When is Easter? This has always been a good question, because there was a time when Easter was moved from day to day. The pagan celebration of Easter occurs each year at the same time that Christians celebrate the miraculous resurrection of their Savior Jesus Christ. This was during the spring equinox. Some of the pagan beliefs centered Attis, while others were more concerned with the coming of spring. But every year, Easter was celebrated on a different day of the week, sometimes it was a Sunday, others a Monday, it was even on Friday and Saturday. This was a very long time ago, only 300 or more years after Jesus died.
At about the people now decided that it might be a better idea to have the Easter occur on the same day of the week each year and it was written. The meeting took place between Constantine and some of the other important people of the time in 325 AD. And since Easter was on Sunday.
To be more precise this "rule of Easter," says that Easter will be celebrated the first Sunday, which has a full moon after the spring equinox. Sometimes it is the spring equinox on reality as opposed to later, but you get the meaning. There is some discrepancy between the actual dates of full moons and full moons church, leading to Passover which is celebrated between the dates of March 22 and April 25 of each year.
This could create confusion, but it's just the way that Easter has always been chosen. This is why we have schedules, they say, when Easter is every year. I honestly do not know what I would do without mine!
The fact of the matter is that while it is important that we know when that is how we celebrate Easter, the most important thing is that we bring our families together at this time to rejoice in the fact that we have family gathering. Not everyone is so lucky, these people have no friends and families to share with Easter, so I feel blessed and feel full of hope, if you are religious or not this year.
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