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Enjoy this early Easter, it will be you last.

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Post by SamCogar Wed Mar 19, 2008 6:38 am

Easter comes really early this year, Sunday the 23rd., ....... and no one who is alive today will ever be able to celebrate it this early ever again. affraid affraid

Easter is Sunday, much earlier than usual this year, and many people are scratching their heads. Isn't it still cold out? Didn't we just celebrate Christmas?

As it turns out, there's a very simple explanation, and it has nothing to do with the church, a vast religious conspiracy or even a complex marketing scheme on the part of candy-makers and egg farmers.

It's the moon.

Easter always comes on the Sunday after the first, or Paschal, full moon following the first day of spring.


Spring arrives on Thursday and the moon will be full on Friday, the earliest Paschal moon since 1913. And that means Easter, the Christian holiday marking the resurrection of Jesus Christ, is this Sunday. It won't come this early again for another 220 or so years.

It could be worse. In 1818, Easter arrived on the earliest possible day: March 22.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,339051,00.html

So, have a happy early Easter.

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SamCogar

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