Early Easter Trivia

With Easter very early this year, coming on March 23, I found this interesting. You may have seen it already.

Easter is always the 1st Sunday after the 1st Full Moon after the Spring Equinox (which is March 20th.) This dating of Easter is based on the lunar calendar that Hebrew people used to identify Passover, which is why it moves around on our Roman calendar.

Based on the above information, Easter can actually be one day earlier, falling on March 22nd, but that is pretty rare.

This year is the earliest Easter any of us will ever see the rest of our lives. Only the most elderly of our population have ever seen it this early before - only those 95 years old or more! None of us have ever, or will ever, see it any earlier than it is this year. (And all the music pastors said 'AMEN!')

Here are the facts:

1). The next time Easter will be this early (March 23) will be the year 2228 (220 years from now). The last time it was this early was in 1913, so if you are 95 years old or older, you are the only ones who were around for that!

2). The next time Easter will fall on March 22nd will be in the year 2285 (277 years from now). The last time it was on March 22nd was in 1818. So, no one alive today has ever seen or will ever see it any earlier than it is this year!