 EASTER-DAY, on which the rest depend, is always the first Sunday after the full moon which happens upon or next after the twenty-first day of March, and if the full moon happens upon a Sunday, Easter Day is the Sunday after.  The Quarterly Review - Pàgina 494editat per - 1818Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Harold Spencer Jones - 1923 - 462 pàgines
...calculation of the date upon which Easter Day will fall in any year — Easter Day being the first Sunday after the full Moon which happens upon or next after the vernal equinox. Most of these rules are subject to various exceptions, but the following, first devised... | |
 | United States. Work Projects Administration (Ohio) - 1936 - 508 pàgines
...begin," he will find the following note: "Easter day, on which the rest depend, is always the first Sunday after the full moon which happens upon or next after the twenty-first day of March; and if the full moon happens upon a Sunday, Easter Day is the Sunday after."... | |
 | 1862 - 1124 pàgines
...seven sabbaths succeeding tiie Jewish passover. The day w« recognise as Easter Sunday is the first Sunday after the full moon which happens upon, or next after, the vernal equinox, or twenty-first of March. " Good Friday," the day of the crucifixion, will obviously... | |
 | Great Britain - 1928 - 132 pàgines
...the Moveable Feasts and Holy Days begin " contained in that Act, for the words " is always the first Sunday after the full moon which happens upon or next after the twenty-first day of March, and if the full moon happens upon a Sunday, Easter Day is the Sunday after,"... | |
 | Irish ecclesiastical record - 1876 - 592 pàgines
...own words : — " According to the Book of Common Prayer," he says, " Easter Day is always 'the first Sunday after the full moon •which happens upon or next after the 2ist day of March ; and if the full moon happens upon a Sunday, Easter day is the Sunday after.' "Now,... | |
 | Janet Goodridge - 1999 - 306 pàgines
...Christian Easter date is governed by the moon: EASTER-DAY (on which the rest depend) is always the First Sunday after the Full Moon which happens upon, or next after the Twenty-First Day of March; and if the Full Moon happens upon a Sunday, Easter-Day is the Sunday after.... | |
 | Dorothy Morrison - 2004 - 292 pàgines
...celebrations with variable dates. A prime example of this is Easter, which is calculated to be "the first Sunday after the Full Moon which happens upon, or next after the twenty-first day of March."3 If the Moon was the original timekeeper, though, why don't we use her... | |
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