In article <G8ZFj.1999$VK4.1555@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, curmudgeon says...
>
>The date Easter is celebrated moves a around year to year in order to
>preserve its relationship to the astronomical phenomena that would have
>occurred at the time of the resurrection (around 30 A.D.)
>
>Easter is always the first Sunday after the first full moon after the
spring
>equinox.
As I just said in another post, that is the Roman memory of the rule as
agreed
at Nicea. The East remembers another clause: it must always come after
Passover.
>
>This year 2008, is the earliest Easter any of us will see for the rest of
>our lives,
Ah, but if you live till 2013, you will see Orthodox Easter (aka Pascha)
on May
5th.
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