How is the Easter date chosen, and why does it change from year to year?
A. This year, the date of Easter is the same for both the Western (Catholic and Protestant) and Eastern (Orthodox) churches, but that is not always the case. Also, this year Easter falls on one of the eight days of Passover, but that is not always the case. How are these dates chosen, and why do they change from year to year? Each of these groups uses a different calendar. The Jewish calendar is based on the lunar cycle, and has 12 months in most years, with an additional month periodically added to the year in order to keep the calendar in rough accord with the solar cycle. Passover always begins at sundown of the 14th day of the month of Nissan and lasts 7 days in Israel and 8 days outside Israel. Because the months of the Jewish calendar do not correspond exactly with the months of the modern solar calendar, the date of Jewish holydays changes from year to year, but they remain in the same season of the year. Passover is always a spring holy day. Early Christianity sometimes celebra
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