Reader Question: Why Does Easter Come Before Passover This Year?
Reader Why Does Easter Come Before Passover This Year? Friday March 7, 2008 A reader writes: I know that Passover and Good Friday normally occur within days of each other. If I am correct, it is believed that the Last Supper was a Passover Seder with Christ being tried and crucified the following day. I am aware that Good Friday is always celebrated on a Friday whereas Passover can be any day of the week. What I don’t understand is why this year they are a month apart. And another reader speculates: I thought that the Easter celebration was supposed to fall somewhere in closer relation to the Passover celebration. Does this have something to do with leap year? The Last Supper was indeed the Passover; thus Holy Thursday, in the year that Christ was crucified, fell on Passover. That made Easter, the day that Christ rose from the dead, the Sunday after Passover. Because Christians in different areas wer
