Why is Easter always on a different day, sometimes even a different month, yet Christmas is always the same?

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Because Christmas is celebrated according to the Gregorian calendar date and Easter is celebrated according to astronomy and full moons. Over the course of history, beginning in 325 AD the Western Church decided to established a more standardized system for determining the date of Easter. Astronomers were able to approximate the dates of all the full moons in future years for the Western Christian churches, thus establishing a table of Ecclesiastical Full Moon dates.

These dates would determine the Holy Days on the Ecclesiastical Calendar. The Ecclesiastical Full Moon dates were permanently established and have been used ever since to determine the date of Easter. According to the Ecclesiastical tables, the Paschal (Passover) Full Moon is the first Ecclesiastical Full Moon date after March 20 (which happened to be the vernal equinox date in 325 AD).

So, in Western Christianity, Easter is always celebrated on the Sunday immediately following the Paschal Full Moon. The Paschal Full Moon can vary as much as two days from the date of the actual full moon, with dates ranging from March 21 to April 18. As a result, Easter dates can range from March 22 through April 25.

Easter falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon following the Spring Equinox. Or when the bunny gets the eggs finished.

I agree. But let's clear up something else while we're at it. Jesus Christ was not born on December twenty-fifth, but rather April seventeenth to be exact.

The short answer is that when religion gets involved...crazy things happen. The also correct answer is to be found here: htm.

With Christmas, the date is fixed like a birthday. It's locked to the solar calendar. The date is actually completely arbitrary; it's really just a solstice holiday.

With Easter, though, there are two competing concerns. It's pegged to a different holiday, the Jewish Passover, which itself floats around on the solar calendar. (It's always on the same place on the lunar calendar.) So it's unclear whether then "anniversary" should be tied to the solar date of the resurrection, or whether it should be tied to the lunar date of the Passover.

There was actually a fair bit of controversy over this, and people got excommunicated over it. In the end, they brilliantly chose neither, instead setting up a hair-raisingly complicated system that blends the two. And it's still not accepted by all Christians; the Eastern Orthodox celebrate Easter on a different date.

(And Christmas, too, for that matter, since they never accepted the Gregorian calendar reform, and Christmas is now a solid two weeks after the one we use, and coincidentally right around Ephiphany.

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