| Spring festivals with the theme of new life and relief from the cold of winter became connected explicitly to Jesus having conquered death by being resurrected after the crucifixion | It sounds complicated, but the basic idea is to make it simpler to calculate the date for modern calendars |
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| Many Eastern Orthodox churches follow the Julian calendar rather than the Gregorian | Maundy Thursday commemorates the Last Supper, the final meal that Jesus had with his disciples |
Date of Easter Submitted by Eileen Burke on April 21, 2019 - 1:42pm The date of Easter isn't moved because of an association with pagan Spring festivals.
29| Easter is on April 4 in 2021 | Remember that the Jews reckoned their days from sunset to sunset |
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| So, the Paschal Full Moon is the 14th day of a lunar month occurring on or after March 21 according to a fixed set of ecclesiastical calendar rules, which does not always match the date of the astronomical full Moon nearest the astronomical spring equinox | Easter can come as early as March 22, and as late as April 25 in the Gregorian calendar |
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