Why Does Easter Move

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It's an imaginary full moon that is used to compute of the date of Easter. It is the 14th day of the moon, counting from its first appearance after conjunction (roughly speaking, conjunction is the dark of the moon). You can see the ecclesiastical moon table or use our easter calculator

Here is the offical way easter is calculated

  • Easter Sunday is first sunday after the paschal full moon
    • The Paschal full moon is the first Ecclesiastical full moon after march 20th

To calculate Easter take the current year divide it by 19. Then take the remainder and add 1 to it, this is called the golden number. Use the table below to calculate the paschal moon date. Easter will be the Sunday after that date



   Golden Number       Paschal Moon   
1 April 14th
2 April 3rd
3 March 23rd
4 April 11th
5 March 31st
6 April 18th
7 April 8th
8 MArch 28th
9 April 16th
10 April 5th
11 March 25th
12 April 13th
13 April 2nd
14 March 22nd
15 April 10th
16 MArch 30th
17 April 17
18 April 7th
19 March 27th

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