Subject: The date of Easter
Date:    Thu, 9 Apr 1998 00:35:55 +0000
To:      "Hebraic Heritage Newsgroup"<heb_roots_chr@geocities.com>

From:          MDBartlett 
To:            heb_roots_chr@geocities.com
Subject:       The date of Easter

In a message dated 98-04-03 01:17:14 EST, you write:
<< 
> I have enjoyed the various thoughts on Passover and Easter, but how
> can the statement <that 'Easter' should be celebrated on the first
> Sunday after the vernal equinox> be correct?  That would mean that
> Easter always must fall on the first Sunday following 21 March (or
> Spring).  That is hardly the case.  I do agree that The Nicaean
> council made a serious error in changing the Biblical Passover into a
> Pagan related feast called Easter.
>  >>

It should be, the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal
equinox.  The first full moon this year is on April 11.

Michele

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