holiday calendar

[Katia McClain]

According to a Los Angeles Times article of 13 Feb 1997 (p. B1) entitled
"Trying to Cut Through Calendar Confusion", "The early Christian churches
decided in AD 325 that Easter should be the first Sunday after the first
full moon after the vernal equinox...The Eastern Orthodox churches have
stuck to another early church proviso--that the formula be followed only
if it places Easter on the Sunday after the start of Passover." Western
Easter this year fell on March 30, but since Passover didn't begin until
April 21, Orthodox Easter will be on April 27. I'm not sure that this
description actually succeeded in "cutting through the calendar
confusion", but perhaps it will help.

Katia McClain