复活节英文小报7
The date of Easter
Prior to A.D. 325, Easter was variously The Easter Egg
celebrated on different days of the week, As with the Easter Bunny
including Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. In and the holiday itself, the Easter
that year, the Council of Nicaea was
Egg predates the Christian holiday
convened by emperor Constantine. It issued
of Easter. The exchange of eggs in
the Easter Rule which states that Easter shall
The Easter Bunny be celebrated on the first Sunday that occurs
the springtime is a custom that
The Easter Bunny is not a modern after the first full moon on or after the vernal was centuries old when Easter was
invention. The symbol originated with the equinox. However, a first celebrated by Christians.
pagan festival of Eastre. The goddess, caveat must be introduced here. The "full
Eastre, was worshipped by the Anglo- moon" in the rule is the ecclesiastical full
Saxons through her earthly symbol, the moon, which is defined as the fourteenthday
rabbit. of a tabular lunation, where day 1
corresponds to the ecclesiastical New Moon.
It does not always occur on the same date as
the astronomical full moon. The ecclesiastical
"vernal equinox" is always on March 21.
Therefore, Easter must be celebrated on a
Sunday between the dates of March 22 and