When Is Easter And Why Does It Always Change?

When Is Easter? This has always been a very good question because there was a time when Easter was moved around from day to day. The pagan celebration of Easter occurred each year at the same time that the Christians were celebrating the miraculous resurrection of their savior Jesus Christ. This was during the spring equinox. Some of the pagan beliefs centered around Attis while others were more concerned with the coming of the spring. But each year Easter was celebrated on a different day of the week, sometimes it was a Sunday, others a Monday, it has even been on a Friday and a Saturday. This was a very long time ago, only about 300 or so years after Jesus died.

At about that time people decided that it might be a better idea to have Easter occur on the same day of the week each year and so it was written. This meeting happened between Constantine and some of the other important people of the times in 325 AD. And ever since then Easter has been on a Sunday.

To be more specific this "Easter Rule" states that Easter will be celebrated on the first Sunday that has a full moon after the vernal equinox. Sometimes it is on the vernal equinox as opposed to actually after it, but you get the meaning. There is some discord between the actual dates of the full moons and the ecclesiastical full moons, which lead to Easter being celebrated between the dates of March 22 and April 25 each year.

This might be confusing but it is just the way that Easter has always been chosen. That is why we have calendars, they tell us when Easter is going to be each year. Honestly I don't know what I would do without mine!

The fact of the matter is that while it is important that we know when Easter is so that we can celebrate it, the most important thing is that we bring our families together at this time in order to rejoice in the fact that we have family to gather. Not everyone is so lucky, these people do not have friends and families to share Easter with, so feel blessed and feel hopeful, whether you are religious or not this year.