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The timing of the Easter

begin the Easter holiday, and this year fall relatively soon. But Why some years Easter celebrations fall so soon and sometimes so late?

have to do a bit of history to answer this question. Easter, as we all know, is the commemoration of the events of the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ. The most important dates on Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday. In some places extends Easter with the celebration of Good Friday (prior to Palm Sunday) and Monday (following Easter).

The early Christians wanted to associate the celebration of the Resurrection with the old Feast of the Passover, which at first was the passage from winter to spring, thus giving greater symbolic event. The Greek word pascha (Easter) is phasha translation of the Aramaic and Hebrew pesah , meaning step or transit. The Hebrews always celebrated Easter on the 14th of the month of Nisan (seventh month of your calendar, mid-March to mid April), with the first full moon of spring.

But the calculations were complicated at the time, and there were also discrepancies in setting the dates. The dispute had to agree on whether to celebrate Passover as did the Jews, the fourteenth day after the full moon, no matter what day of the week it was, and wanted the churches of Asia Minor, or whether it should always celebrate on Sunday, as he wanted the Roman church. In these treatises were entertained nearly six centuries, in which there were convictions for both sides, even came to excommunicate Quartodecimans , also called terountes (observant), celebrating the Passover with the Jews. Dionisio was

Exiguus , in 525, who got the festivities were set according to the Alexandrian calendar, to convince the Roman use. This was the most accurate calendar ever known, was developed by the Egyptian Sosigenes under order of July Caesar, in 45 a. C., fixed the length of the year at 365 days and 6 hours, with a margin of error of only 11 minutes and nine seconds per year, less than a second per day.

With that help, the Christian communities agreed Friday to set as the first Friday after the full moon after the spring equinox. Given the placement of this day are placed all the important dates of these festivities and directly related (Carnival, minus the 40 days of Lent before Easter).

Therefore, Easter may fall between 22 March and 25 April, falling as the full moon after the spring equinox. For example, the 2011 Good Friday falls on April 22, but in 2016 it will on 25 March.