Easter's Incontinuity.

**devonin** · 04-12-2007, 11:59 AM

Well, presumably he was saying less "People shoudln't randomly pick the day" and more saying "instead of "Easter falls on the first Sunday following the first ecclesiastical full moon that occurs on or after March 21"" it should be "Easter falls on April 7th"

The problem of course, and the reason why it is a movable feast day, is that since both the gregorian and julian calendars have inconsistantly mapping days of the week (That is, Date X will be on a different day of the week each year) picking one singular date would be impossible for easter because easter as a holiday is made up of Good Friday, Holy Saturday, Easter Sunday, and Easter Monday, so it -has- to fall over a weekend to make any sense.

04-12-2007, 11:59 AM	#4
devonin Very Grave Indeed Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Ontario, Canada Age: 42 Posts: 10,120	Re: Easter's Incontinuity. Well, presumably he was saying less "People shoudln't randomly pick the day" and more saying "instead of "Easter falls on the first Sunday following the first ecclesiastical full moon that occurs on or after March 21"" it should be "Easter falls on April 7th" The problem of course, and the reason why it is a movable feast day, is that since both the gregorian and julian calendars have inconsistantly mapping days of the week (That is, Date X will be on a different day of the week each year) picking one singular date would be impossible for easter because easter as a holiday is made up of Good Friday, Holy Saturday, Easter Sunday, and Easter Monday, so it -has- to fall over a weekend to make any sense.

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