Friday, February 22, 2008

Easter

Why does the date of Easter change every year???

23 comments:

Kitty Milo said...

i think that the date of easter changes every year because easter is always the day after the full moon so maybe every year the moon is full at different times meaning that easter is the day after?!

Nei-Nei Neina-Marie said...

Maybe because the goverment want it too be at a specific time of that year????? "Not everyone can get off work on this date, so how about this?" It's compilcated.

Kitty Milo said...

easter sunday can fall anywhere between march 22nd and april 25th!

Marshall said...

I didn't know what to write, so I got this off http://answers.yahoo.com/question/. Originally Easter Sunday was always the day after passover day. That was was a date in the ancient Hebrew Calendar which is based on lunar months. Since then, Christianity and Judaism have changed their Calendars and the whole thing has become rather muddled.

It's supposed to be the first Sunday after the full moon after the spring equinox. In an attempt to make things easier to calculate, both the Eastern and Western strains of Christianity came up with different formulae so it's not always the same date as passover, and the Eastern easter is usually a week after the Western one

Marshall said...

is it okay to copy off other sites?

Kitty Milo said...

yes it is,and like i said in my comment its the same as yours it is the first sunday after the full moon.
cool aye?!

Mushroom Shortie said...

i think that it has something to do with the government wanting to have a specific day tying in with easter sunday and the leap year???
i have no idea 8-)

fred said...

Two reasons. Because easter sunday and monday cant be on a wednesday and thursday...... and because it is leap year...I wonder who marz barz is???

Snowy said...

Hi guys,
Im not sure because my sisters b'day is on the 8th of april witch is on easter sunday normaly, but this year it is at the end of march!!!
If you want you cant come to my blog.
8-D

fred said...

good point snow girl ;-)

Snowy said...

opps i made a few spelling mistakes i mean that you can come to my blog if you want not you cant come to my blog!!!

fred said...

stop making mistakes

fred said...

easter changed this year because of leap year i just found out

MrWoody said...

marshall - that is an excellent piece of information. well done!
you can copy the info from another site as long as you acknowledge where you got it from and maybe use your owns words. or you can cut n paste a quote in speech marks and again say where you got it.
excellent! work! you are blogger of the day !
:-))

Mushroom Shortie said...

ok thank you fred

Kitty Kat said...

Yes its what all the other people said. The first sunday after the full moon in April/(sometimes march)

rosiegal said...

Hi guys! if your wondering who rosiegal is then i am supagal but my supagal account didnt work so know i am rosie gal!!! My mum says its the difference of the moon. also, it is to do with the leap year that it is totally differnt this year.

Nei-Nei Neina-Marie said...

My diddykins (Dad) says the easter hol's change because of the moon, and that the hol's have to be a week or so after the full moon.
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Nei-Nei Neina-Marie said...

Sorry, my face went wonky.

Kitty Milo said...

i got my answer off the internet and put it into my own words.
if you want to know the website it is http://christianity.about.com/od/faqhelpdesk/qt/whyeasterchange.htm

rosiegal said...

Hello Kitty milo are you still there? the website is really intersting! I think that its really clever how far easter can be away from the date of easter the previous year!

Kitty Milo said...

hi i just got your comment, thankyou i reckon its a cool website too! i went 1.google 2 advanced search 3why does the date of easter change every year. then i clicked the top option and got it! i dont know who im writing too but oh well. bye

Lyinda said...

yippie i love easter!!!
specially easter eggs.