When celebrating Easter in 2015
Feast of the Holy Christ's Resurrection forOrthodox Christians special day. For his offensive, everything is prepared in advance and the pre-daunting efforts are filled with special feelings of joy and excitement. Believers induce cleanliness in their dwellings, bake the symbols of the holiday - Easter cakes, and traditionally paint eggs and prepare cottage cheese Easter, so that on the night preceding the festival consecrate a meal in the church and greet the morning of the coming day with a joyful message: "Christ is Risen!"
So that pre-holiday cares do not turn intofeverish attempts to have time to do something (especially those who did not observe the Great Lent before Easter), it is useful to know in advance the date when Easter celebrates this year (those who constantly celebrate this event know that it always falls on different days ).
How to know the date when Easter will be celebrated?
The only thing that everyone knows for sure,celebrating Easter, is that every year it is celebrated in the spring, from March 22 to April 25. And it always happens on a Sunday (the very name of the day of the week already "hints" at its special significance). The date of the bright Christ's Resurrection depends on the lunisolar calendar.
The basic rule that all Orthodox believers should know is that Easter is celebrated after the night of the full moon.
In other words, after the day passesthe vernal equinox (March 21) and the moon will be in its full phase. It happens that the full moon comes on Sunday, then Easter will be celebrated exactly one week after him.
By the way, Catholic and Orthodox Christianscelebrate the Resurrection of the Savior on different days (as well as Christmas). Usually, the discrepancy is one, four or five weeks. This is due to the fact that historically they used different calendars: Catholics lived by Gregorian, and Orthodox - by Alexandrian. Thus, the date on which Easter is celebrated depends also on when the Great Lent preceding it lasted 40 days. In 2015, the Orthodox begin to fast on February 23, and Catholics - 18.
But Easter this year will be celebrated in April. Catholics will rejoice at the resurrection of the Savior on Sunday, the 5th day, and for Christians the Bright Sunday will come on April 12th.
Now, after reading this article, you, knowingthe exact date of the holiday, you will have time to fully enjoy the process of preparing for a wonderful, life-affirming holiday - Bright Sunday, Easter Sunday.
