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The holiday stems from ... season, its date is always exactly 46 days before Easter (40 days of Lent, plus six, as each Sunday is skipped) and thus is affected directly by what date Easter falls ...
Ash Wednesday - the start of the Easter Lent season - falls on Valentine's Day. Here is what you need to know about the upcoming liturgical season. When is Easter 2024?
Here are the dates of 2025 federal holidays, according to the Office of Personnel Management: Wednesday, Jan. 1: New Year’s Day Monday, Jan. 20: Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Easter's date changes depending on the year. The holiday is one of several "moveable feasts" in the liturgical year, the History Channel reports. Others include Ash Wednesday and Palm Sunday .
The movable date of Easter sometimes brings it into conflict with other, fixed or moveable, public holidays. In the United Kingdom in 2000 and 2011, the May Day bank holiday was one week after Easter Monday, causing there to be three consecutive weeks with a bank holiday. (In Scotland this did not occur as Easter Monday is not a bank holiday.)
Table of (Gregorian) dates of Easter 2015–2030 [1] Year Full Moon Jewish Passover [note 1] Astronomical Easter [note 2] Gregorian Easter Julian Easter 2015 April 4 April 5: April 12 2016 March 23: April 23 March 27: May 1 2017 April 11 April 16 2018 March 31 April 1: April 8 2019 March 20: April 20 March 24: April 21: April 28 2020 April 8 ...
English: Calculated based on the fact that the date depends on the epact of the year and on the dominical letter of the year. Each epact from 1 to 30 is equally likely, and exactly 14% of years have dominical letter A, 14.5% B, 14% C, 14.5% D, 14.25% E, 14.25% F, and 14.5% G. Note that epacts 25 and 26 both give April 17 for the ecclesiastical full moon.
Easter is fast approaching. For Christians, it's a time to celebrate the belief in the resurrection of Jesus Christ. For non-Christians, it's a time to hunt for colorful eggs left by the Easter bunny.