Easter

Easter is the Christian feast of the resurrection of Jesus, and the oldest annual festival of the church.

The date moves. Western churches keep it on the Sunday after the Paschal full moon, the first full moon on or after 21 March in the ecclesiastical calendar. Churches that calculate from the Julian calendar can arrive at a different Sunday.

The English name is Easter. Many other languages use a form of Pascha, from the Hebrew Pesach. The tile below is the next Easter in the catalog. It is not locked to one year, and this page does not print Easter as a fixed civil date.

In the Gregorian calendar, Western Easter falls on a Sunday from 22 March through 25 April. Bede, in De temporum ratione (725), discusses the English name.