Compared to holidays like Christmas, Holy Week doesn't have fixed dates. Know the reasons behind Holy Week's seemingly random feast dates.
Editor’s Note: This piece was originally published in April 2014. Rappler is updating and republishing this to mark Holy Week 2018.
Easter is one of the Catholic liturgical calendar’s “movable feasts,” or celebrations that do not have a fixed date on the Gregorian calendar. Wherever Easter Sunday is on the calendar, the 6 days that precede it make up the Holy Week.Easter is movable since it depends on the observance of the Jewish Passover.
In 325 AD, the Council of Nicaea decreed that there must be uniform dates for Easter observances, and that the dates must not coincide with the Jewish Passover. There were two reasons for this. Second, the Jewish calendar confused the heads of early churches. Passover itself is a movable Jewish feast, which means the 14th ofThrough their calculation of calendars and the fact that Passover begins in full moon of the spring equinox, the early Church believes that Jesus was resurrected on the first vernal full moon.
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