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	Encyclopedia: Easter
		Easter depends on Passover not only for much of its symbolic meaning but also for its position in the calendar; the Last Supper shared by Jesus and his disciples before his crucifixion is generally thought of as a Passover seder, based on the chronology in the Synoptic Gospels.
		Easter and the holidays that are related to it are moveable feasts, in that they do not fall on a fixed date in the Gregorian or Julian calendars (which follow the motion of the sun and the seasons).
		Pascha (Easter) is the primary act that fulfils the purpose of Christ's ministry on earthâ”to defeat death by dying and to purify and exalt humanity by voluntarily assuming and overcoming human frailty.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Easter (9964 words)

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		Easter is on a Sunday -- thus we are concerned with the cycle of days of the week.
		That is a conventional date, and is indeed sometimes incorrect.
		As part of reforming the Julian calendar, the method for calculating Easter (which boils down to a method of harmonizing the lunar and solar calendars) was also revised.
	www.cs.rutgers.edu /pub/soc.religion.christian/faq/easter-date (4027 words)

	Ecclesiastical Calendar: Enter a Year...
		Fixing the date of Easter to a particular Sunday would still mean that Easter and the Feasts related to it would be movable, but the movement would be restricted to a span of seven dates (for example, the second Sunday in April must fall between April 8th-14th).
		The press release is dated 1997 March 24, and the basic suggestion is to use astronomical measurements of the vernal equinox and the full moon at the meridian of Jerusalem in order to determine the date of Easter.
		The Date of Easter from the Anglican Diocese of Ely
	www.smart.net /~mmontes/ec-cal.html (2614 words)

	Easter Sunday Date - XYZ Calendar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Gives the ecclesiastical rules for setting the date for Easter on calendars, differences with astronomical methods, and the current algorythm used to …
		Therefore, Easter must be celebrated on a Sunday between the dates of March 22 and April 25.
		Easter is the ultimate feast for Christians-the ultimate moveable feast.
	www.75scouts.org /easter-sunday-date.html (438 words)

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		What is usually forgotten with any calculation of a prophetic event is that there was always a herald or messenger to announce its approach.
		This date was chosen as the result of numerous Roman Catholic churches in the sixth century trying to decide the most correct method for calculating Easter.
		Dionysius’ dating was questioned by the English saint Bede in the 8th century...
	www.plim.org /2000MessiahJune95.htm (11466 words)

	Calendar - Gregorian Calendar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Calendar, Gregorian,; Solar, Lunar, And Dates Of The Easter And Passover
		Doig's Biblical Chronology - Exact dating of the Exodus and the Birth and Crucifixion of Jesus.; A resolution between the Bible and archaeology.
		Easter is an annual festival observed throughout the Christian world. The date for Easter shifts every year within the Gregorian Calendar.
	www.calendarfind.com /gregoriancalendar (1516 words)

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		The Apostle Paul said that we are children of the light, not of darkness (I Thess.
		The extra 4 years is due to the 4 year error by Dionysius the Little in the 6th century (see details in "How did an error in the calendar occur?," p.
		It states: "Somehow Dionysius reckoned the birth of Christ to have occurred in 753 auc; but the Gospels state that Christ was born under Herod the great-i.e., at the latest in 750 auc.
	www.occult-advances.org /nc-prophecy-messiah.shtml (12093 words)

	Vernal Equinox, spring, Montgomery College's Planetarium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Find out when we will really enter the age of Aquarius, when the Vernal Equinox is in Aquarius.
		Calculating Easter from the Vernal Equinox: The date of Easter from the USNO astronomical applications.
		Mean Tropical year: 365 days 5 hours 48 minutes 46 seconds = 365.2422 days
	www.montgomerycollege.edu /Departments/planet/planet/Spring.htm (285 words)

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