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Being a 30 year old, I'm extremely embarrased to ask this, but if Easter celebrates the passing of Jesus, why is it a different weekend every year? Apparently Easter weekend in 2008 will be in March :confused:
Because it actually syncs to the Jewish Passover, which relates to phases of the moon.
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Being a 30 year old, I'm extremely embarrased to ask this, but if Easter celebrates the passing of Jesus, why is it a different weekend every year? Apparently Easter weekend in 2008 will be in March :confused:
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Being a 30 year old, I'm extremely embarrased to ask this, but if Easter celebrates the passing of Jesus, why is it a different weekend every year? Apparently Easter weekend in 2008 will be in March :confused:
Actually, Easter celebrates the resurrection of Jesus. As for the history of the date, see here.[^]
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Because it actually syncs to the Jewish Passover, which relates to phases of the moon.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog "I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )
Not quite. They both use the same phases of moon rule, but due to differences in how the Gregorian and Hebrew calenders work while the two holidays are normally in sync occasionally there's a month offset.
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Being a 30 year old, I'm extremely embarrased to ask this, but if Easter celebrates the passing of Jesus, why is it a different weekend every year? Apparently Easter weekend in 2008 will be in March :confused:
Mark06 wrote:
Apparently Easter weekend in 2008 will be in March
Kind of crazy huh? Easter was the last weekend of April last year I believe which was really late...
CleaKO
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Not quite. They both use the same phases of moon rule, but due to differences in how the Gregorian and Hebrew calenders work while the two holidays are normally in sync occasionally there's a month offset.
-- CleaKO The sad part about this instance is that none of the users ever said anything [about the problem]. Pete O`Hanlon Doesn't that just tell you everything you need to know about users?
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I'm fairly certain that Easter started out Pagan and was hijacked at a later time.:-D
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