Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: anonymous@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: When is easter? Message-ID: Date: 15 Jun 91 05:31:58 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Society of Independent Newswaifs Lines: 22 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article , jarrell@vtserf.cc.vt.edu (Ron Jarrell) writes: > Does anyone know what the formula is for computing easter for any > given year is? For bonus points, what's the formula for the > eastern orthodox easter? I know it has something to do with the > moon, but that's about all I can remember. I quote from _Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable_, of all things (you never know where things will turn up!), the entry for Easter: "Easter Sunday is the first Sunday after the Paschal full moon, i.e. the full moon that occurs on the day of the vernal equinox (21 March) or on any of the next 28 days. Thus Easter Sunday cannot be earlier than 22 March, or later than 25 April, as laid down by the Council of Nicaea in 325." This does not apply to the Eastern Rite churches, whose method of computing the date of Easter is left in obscurity by this tome, unfortunately. ************************************************************************ * Liz Broadwell (broadwel@penndrls.upenn.edu) * * * Department of English * Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam * * The University of Pennsylvania * * ************************************************************************