The Assyrian Church of the East has changed the Easter Date

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Our church has changed the date we celebrate Easter. We now have gone back to our original our calender which was used between the years of 33 AD-1964. It was changed to create better relations with the Catholic church which failed because of the new pope. We now celebrate Easter on the same day as the Orthodox churches and the Ancient Church of the East.

2006 - Easter Sunday - April 23rd
2007 - Easter Sunday - April 8th (same as Catholic date)
2008 - Easter Sunday - April 27th
2009 - Easter Sunday - April 19th
2010 - Easter Sunday - April 4th (same as Catholic date)
2011 - Easter Sunday - April 24th (same as Catholic date)
2012 - Easter Sunday - April 15th
2013 - Easter Sunday - May 5th
2014 - Easter Sunday - April 20th (same as Catholic date)
2015 - Easter Sunday - April 12th
2016 - Easter Sunday - May 1st
2017 - Easter Sunday - April 16th (same as Catholic date)
2018 - Easter Sunday - April 8th
2019 - Easter Sunday - April 28th
2020 - Easter Sunday - April 19th
2021 - Easter Sunday - May 2nd
2022 - Easter Sunday - April 24th
2023 - Easter Sunday - April 16th

Our Christmas is still celebrated on December 25 as was before...
 
The Assyrian Church of the East has changed the date that Easter is celebrated on... I dont know what changes the chaldean church has made, but i know the pope didn't want the chaldean church to change anything
 
okay someone please tell me how do the dates move??
like christmas is the same dec 25 every year
thankgiving 4th thursday of every november
all the holidays are the same day why does easter change?
 
How is Easter Sunday Date Determined?

SUMMARY
Easter Sunday is the Sunday following the Paschal Full Moon (PFM) date for the year. (Paschal is pronounced "PAS-KUL", not "pas-chal"). See Christian Prayer Books for proof of this concise definition.

In June 325 A.D. astronomers approximated astronomical full moon dates for the Christian church, calling them Ecclesiastical Full Moon (EFM) dates. From 326 A.D. the PFM date has always been the EFM date after March 20 (which was the equinox date in 325 A.D.)

From 1583, each PFM date differs from an Astronomical Full Moon (AFM) date usually by no more than 1 date, and never by more than 3 dates. (Each AFM is a two-dates event due to world time zones. Each PFM is a one-date event world-wide).

HISTORY
Easter Sunday is the date of the annual celebration of Christ's resurrection. The aim of the Easter Dating Method is to maintain, for each Easter Sunday, the same season of the year and the same relationship to the preceding astronomical full moon that occurred at the time of his resurrection in 30 A.D.

This was achieved in 1583 A.D. using skill and common-sense by Pope Gregory the 13th, and his astronomers and mathematicians, predominantly Lilius and Clavius, by introducing their new larger (revised) PFM Gregorian dates table. This replaced the (original) 326 A.D. "19 PFM dates" table in the Julian calendar.

Easter Sunday, from 326 A.D., is always one of the 35 dates March 22 to April 25.

From 31 A.D. to 325 A.D. Easter Day was celebrated either:
(a) on or just after the first day of the Jewish Passover (no matter on which day of the week that Easter Day occurred), or
(b) on a Sunday close to or on the first Passover Day.
Both of these methods existed continuously throughout this period.

From 326 A.D. to 1582 A.D. Easter Sunday date was based on the Julian calendar in use at that time. It became defined as the Sunday following the Paschal Full Moon date for the year, using a simple "19 PFM dates" table. Precise information on this subject can be found on pages 415 to 425 of the Explanatory Supplement to the 1961 Astronomical Ephemeris.

The Julian calendar was replaced by the Gregorian calendar in October 1582 to re-align March 20 (and therefore Easter) with the seasons by removing 10 dates October 5 to 14, 1582. This replacement did not occur until later in many countries e.g. in September 1752 in England. See GM Arts Easter Date Calculations for more information. ENGLISH Easter Sunday dates for 1583 to 1752 can be calculated using information near the end of this Easter Dating Method document.

The Gregorian calendar very closely maintains the alignment of seasons and calendar dates by having leap years in only 1 of every 4 century years, namely, those divisible exactly by 400. One additional February 29 date will need to be removed in about 4140 A.D., therefore Easter calculations will need to use the changed Days of Week of PFM dates when the exact year for this removal is decided.

From 326 A.D., the Easter Sunday Date for any given year is NOT determined by the March Equinox date for that year. March 20 (not March 21) is the most common Gregorian Equinox date from 1583 to 4099 A.D.

Historically, references to March 21 have caused mistakes in calculating Easter Sunday dates. March 20 has become the important date in recent Easter dating methods. Despite frequent references to March 21, this date has no special significance to any recent Easter dating methods.
 
Mar Dinkha and all the Bishops and Metropolitians of the "Assyrian Church of the East"(Isreekhamshaya) will go back to Iraq along with the "Ancient Church of the East"(Shwaya) Synod for Easter and have a meeting on reuniting the Church of the East in Baghdad, Iraq.
 
AssyrianBookTa said:
all the holidays are the same day why does easter change?
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Easter is a lot more complex, and there's a unique formula each Church seems to use to get to the date. Most Eastern Churches used the same methods as the Greek/Russian Orthodox Churches (there is no true Assyrian Orthodox Church, most of us are "Catheeloqayeh" even if we don't follow Roman Catholic traditions), although, since 1964 (as mentioned), the Assyrian/Eastern Catholic Churches or better known as the Assyrian Church of the East (Oomrit Madinkha), have all used the Western (Roman) Catholic methods (which use the Gregorian calendar) EXCEPT the churches that strictly follow the Julian calendar (Oomrit Madinkha d' Showwa Byarkha).

A true understanding of the earth's movements, Spring Soltace, the sun's positioning, the moon's revolutions, and how 365.25 days isn't even exactly how long it takes the earth to turn on its axis is all taken into account. Which is why most of us don't know how they do it, and usually don't care, lol.

Anyway, that was long enough, but just like every fourth Thursday of November is the formula for Thanksgiving, they have something (but more detailed and specific) going on for Easter.

I hope that last part at least helped... :giggle:
 
eanna read better!!

aaannnuuhhh now we celebrate easter toghether?? i am orthodox..


aaah time for a group hug! :bigarmhug:
 
This is a wonderful news,I hope that this step will be the beginning to re-uniting both the ancient and the new calendars of The Church of The East.
 
I personally think this is a bad move.. again, we are dividing the assyrians from the chaldeans (yea yea i know they are all "assyrian") but still.. i hate the fact that we are gonna celebrate on seperate dates. Maybe thats because my mom belongs to the assyrian church of the east and my dad belongs to the chaldean church. i HATE divisions.. just unite us all! :bigarmhug:
 
How come we celebrate Christmas on 25 of december every year and it never changes and we celebrate Easter on different days? how come Easter dates change?
 
rate assyrians...do u have the dates that easter will be celebrated by westerners??? or when u say same as catholic church is that it? hmm :blink:
 
Uneek said:
How come we celebrate Christmas on 25 of december every year and it never changes and we celebrate Easter on different days? how come Easter dates change?
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Read the above explanation for the formula used to decide the Easter date. It's complicated.

December 25th was originally chosen by the early church to counter the pagan holiday which was celebrated on that day. Jesus was not born on December 25th. From my understanding, the best estimate as to the real birth date of Jesus is in late April, Early May.

The point is though, that it doesn't really matter what day He was born. We should celebrate His birth, and death, every day of our lives.
 
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