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Easter Sunday

EASTER SUNDAY  
                            Spring goddess Eostre--Astarte--Ishtar
                            Hares, rabbits--Middle Eastern pagan Spring 
                                     Festivals
                            Eggs--Traditional Fetisvals--decorated eggs bring 
                                     happiness, prosperity, etc.

Older tradition in liturgical calendar
Pentecost, fifty-days after Easter
Seventh Sunday after Easter Sunday
We get to fifty by including Easter  
Good Friday—Day of His death—First day
Holy Saturday—Second day
Easter Sunday—Jesus had risen—Third day
The Roman and church in the West, 
celebrated Easter on the first Sunday  
Jesus' death and Resurrection, 
Fourteenth day of Nisan was after the paschal full moon 
At the Council of Nicaea in three hundred twenty-five,
the Church adopted this formula 
and why Easter always falls on a Sunday, 
and why the date changes every year.
Easter is always celebrated on a Sunday
because Jesus rose from the dead on a Sunday 
Sunday was the first day of Creation 
and Christ's Resurrection was the beginning
of the new Creation—the remaking of the world
that had been damaged by
the original sin of Adam and Eve
which is why Easter always falls on a Sunday,
and why the date changes every year.

The Bible Daily & JW.org 
Happy Easter!     
4/17/22

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Caren Krutsinger Date: 5/5/2022 11:32:00 AM I had often wondered how Easter always falls on a Sunday "At the Council of Nicaea in three thousand twenty-five, the Church adopted this formula and why Easter always falls on a Sunday," Login to Reply I Am Anaya Date: 5/24/2022 7:52:00 AM Hi Caren! I didn't see you down here. It just takes a 'lil time to research and pray it's spot-on. I wish I'd listen to my Abuelo...he used to tell me shaking his finger...study! He was a Mason...I went to visit his grave...buried next to my abuela, his brother also a Mason. They have a beautiful tribute to them at Pierce Brothers Valhalla Memorial Park, in North Hollywood. They worked on the trains in Nogales, morse code. I've seen pictures of him, headset with antennas sticking out of them, he looked like a martian! :)