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rotciv KOTHRT Prince


Joined: 20 Feb 2006 Posts: 1482 Location: USA
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Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 3:51 pm Post subject: Easter 2008 A once in a lifetime experience! |
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Easter 2008
A once in a lifetime experience!
Easter is always the 1st Sunday after the 1st full moon after the Spring Equinox (which is March 20). This dating of Easter is based on the lunar calendar that Hebrew people used to identify passover, which is why it moves around on our Roman calendar.
Here's the interesting info. This year is the earliest Easter any of us will ever see the rest of our lives! And only the most elderly of our population have ever seen it this early (95 years old or above!). And none of us have ever, or will ever, see it a day earlier! Here's the facts:
1) The next time Easter will be this early (March 23) will be the year 2228 (220 years from now). The last time it was this early was 1913 (so if you're 95 or older, you are the only ones that were around for that!).
2) The next time it will be a day earlier, March 22, will be in the year 2285 (277 years from now). The last time it was on March 22 was 1818. So, no one alive today has or will ever see it any earlier than this year!
Celebrate with praise! _________________ Sir Rotvic Knight of the Halfround Table
MAD, MAD I tell you.They're all MAD.
I am the only sane one here, my Doctor told me I was cured after the shock treatments. Big Brother Is Aways Watching.
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Grawlfang Prince


Joined: 18 Feb 2005 Posts: 1256 Location: The Land of our lord JC, silly walks and all
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Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 6:14 pm Post subject: Re: Easter 2008 A once in a lifetime experience! |
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rotciv KOTHRT wrote: |
Easter is always the 1st Sunday after the 1st full moon after the Spring Equinox (which is March 20). This dating of Easter is based on the lunar calendar that Hebrew people used to identify passover, which is why it moves around on our Roman calendar.
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Close...But the reason that it's the first Sunday after the 1st full moon after the Spring Equinox is that the Catholic Church didn't want it to coincide with any pagan festivals (get them, that's about the only one that them there christians have'nt muscled in on).
Ni!
Fang _________________ Listen; Strange women laying in ponds, distributing swords, is no basis for a system of government.
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