When is catholic easter 2018

However, after , due to the accumulation of the Metonic error for almost seven centuries the Julian and the Gregorian full moon will never coincide in the same week again, so there will be no common Easter again. Reprinted with permission from the Greek Reporter. The simplest resolution: for Rome to determine to use Julian-Metonic calculation.

I am not sure I am favor of such as change. But if it were to occur, there would be a few benefits. Easter would be pushed later into April and occasionally into May, so there would often be a greater space between the Christmas cycle and Ash Wednesday.

Also OT would be slightly shorter post Pentecost which helps to provide a bit more balance to the liturgical year. But that could help attendance at the Maundy Thursday evening service.

On another note, as global warming continues unabated, for many places in the U. So for the Northern Hemisphere, later dates would only increase that trend. But the Southern Hemisphere would benefit from having have more temperate Easters if the date of Pascha was moved forward into later April and earlier May.

Btw, in such event, would Protestant denominations and traditionalist Catholic sects that refuse to follow such a decision would be adhering to an Old New Easter calendar? The holdouts would probably be the much smaller independent and Sedevecantist groups. Horror of horrors! I would surely hope that a common celebration of Easter would be taking place on Planet Earth long after AD. If not, we would be able to diagnose some serious flaw in how Christians have handled ecumenism in the coming seven centuries.

Would Easter on Mars be every 22 months, and Lent extended to seventy days? Or would the liturgical year end with the 79th week in Ordinary Time? There is no real evidence that such radical endulturation will occurr on other planets.

Precedent is against it, since the Northern Hemishpere dates are adopted in our Southern Hemisphere without any acknowledgement of the differences.

Jesus was born as an earthling, and that might be a good enough reason to retain the use of earth years on other planets. Heresy , we should celebrate Easter on the Sunday after the first full moon in spring according to the seasons and moons of our native planets instead of those of Earth. And what will become of the Urbi et Orbi address?

Will the orb become the universe instead of the earth? Thursday, March 29, Maundy Thursday. Friday, March 30, Good Friday. Sunday, April 1, Monday, April 2, Easter Monday.

Thursday, May 10, Ascension of Jesus. Sunday, May 20, Thursday, May 31, Corpus Christi. And why Christians themselves celebrate Easter on different dates most years. This year, the Jewish community celebrates Passover from the evening of March 27 to April 4. Different Christian communities celebrated Easter on different days until the Council of Nicaea in decided that for the unity of the Christian community and its witness, Easter would be celebrated on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox.

In , Pope Gregory XIII, relying on the work of the best astronomers of his time, reformed the calendar, dropping 10 days and making the equinox fall on March 21 again. The development of the Gregorian calendar was not primarily about being more accurate scientifically, it was to ensure the early spring celebration of Easter, the center of the Christian faith.

All other movable feast days on the church calendar — the beginning of Lent and the celebration of Pentecost, for example — are based on the date of Easter. The Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity and the World Council of Churches already are discussing ways to celebrate the 1,th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea in Much of the focus is on an ecumenical reflection of the Nicene Creed, which was formulated at the council.

Bishop Brian Farrell, secretary of the pontifical council, already is working with other church leaders to prepare for the Nicene anniversary. That would be hugely important.