When Is Easter in 2027? Why It Falls So Early

Yes; this applies to calculations for Easter using either the Gregorian and Julian calendars. But, it does not apply to Julian calendar dates converted to Gregorian calendar dates. In many Western Christian denominations that use the Gregorian calendar, for example, Easter can fall as early as March 22 and as late as April 25. It has fallen on April 1 a few times, the last being in 1956. It will occur again on that date in 2018. According to the Julian calendar, the last Orthodox Easter on April 1, for example, was in 1996. The next will be in 2058. However, when these dates are converted to the Gregorian calendar, Orthodox Easter falls on April 14 for these years. Note that when converted to Gregorian calendar dates from the Julian calendar dates, Orthodox Easter can not fall earlier than April 3.

Actually, Easter Orthodox Easter cannot fall earlier than the Gregorian date of April 4, because the Gregorian date of April 3 corresponds to Julian calendar March 21, and Orthodox Easter falls on the first Sunday that occurs AFTER the paschal moon occurring on or after Julian March 21. (This is similar to Western Easter never occurring before March 22 Gregorian.)

It is perfectly OK with me if you give coverage to Easter next week. I ask only that you also give coverage to Pascha (Russian, Orthodox, Eastern European) --- which will occur on 5/5/2013 this year. Isn't it nice that we orthodox Christians get such nice sale prices for our Easter Lilys and Easter candy) Not that candy and flowers are the purpose of this most important religious feast.

Easter has nothing to do with Passover. Passover 2013 is 25th-26th, Easter is 31st. Therefore, Easter cannot be the day of the resurrection. Easter (Is-thar) is a Babylonian deity and the holiday is a pagan practice.

Actually, Easter's date has everything to do with Passover. The last supper was, in fact, the Passover Seder. The Jewish calendar is a lunar calendar. Easter Sunday is ALWAYS the Sunday closest to the Passover Seder. That is also why much of the story of the Jewish courts and elders meeting that night for business is in question with Jewish scholars.

You are close, but more properly God's calendar for calculating dates of his feast are what is called luni-solar - based on both the moon and the sun. The month (moonth) is based on the moon, and how many months in a year is determined by the sun.

NO, Easter itself is not pagan. It is a Christian celebration of the resurrection of Jesus. That is what Easter is for Christians. However, as far as how it became known as "Easter", along with many other practices of Easter, this does have quit a bit of basis in ancient Pagan faiths. The word "Easter" comes from Eostre (a.k.a. Eastre). She was the Great Mother Goddess of the Saxon people in Northern Europe. This goddess was also part of other similar deities like the "Teutonic dawn goddess of fertility [was] known variously as Ostare, Ostara, Ostern, Eostra, Eostre, Eostur, Eastra, Eastur, Austron and Ausos." Her name was derived from the ancient word for spring: "eastre." Also, throughout other ancient cultures there were similar deities celebrating birth and renewal and Istar, from Assyria was one of them, along with others such as Astarte from ancient Greece, Ashtoreth from ancient Isreal, Kali from Indian, and others. Here is an alternate basis or origin of the word "Easter" that can be found on the internet: "An alternative explanation has been suggested. The name given by the Frankish church to Jesus' resurrection festival included the Latin word "alba" which means "white." (This was a reference to the white robes that were worn during the festival.) "Alba" also has a second meaning: "sunrise." When the name of the festival was translated into German, the "sunrise" meaning was selected in error. This became "ostern" in German. Ostern has been proposed as the origin of the word "Easter"." Then we have the developing and power growing early Christian church wanting to Christianize "Pagan" people mostly in Europe. This leads to the Christian church using symbolism from the Pagan's beliefs to influence the Pagans into accepting Christianity, and the Church created the celebrations around the celebrations the Pagans already had during springtime to honor their deities named above. So in essence the Easter celebration was a mixing of Christian beliefs and Pagan celebrations, in order to bring Pagan's into Christianity. This works because these Pagan celebrations are about renewal, revival, and the rebirth of life at the coming of spring after the "death" brought on by winter. The symbolism follows closely with the story of Jesus, his death (winter), and subsequent rebirth and revival (spring). Some say the Christian story and the Pagan stories about their deities influenced each other. The story of Ishtar is eye opening as you can easily see many things about Ishtar and the stories that clearly parallel Jesus, the Trinity, and other things like the the cycle of the moon, which as we know is how the day for Easter is calculated. The story also reveals a "40 day" time of mourning and sarrow, and how "no meat" was to be eaten during this period, just like the fasting before Easter. Then there is Oester a great northern goddess who's symbol is the rabbit! It's interesting to realize that Jesus's death and resurrection is NOT celebrated in the Bible as "Easter", and there is no description of an Easter celebration nor how to celebrate or anything. The acceptance/belief in the resurrection of Jesus is the cornerstone of Christian faith. Wanting to then celebrate that momentous event is why Easter was created. And it was created by taking things from various Pagan traditions to construct a holiday "HOLY DAY" that have become Christian traditions, down to even the name, "Easter". Still, I do not accept the Easter is a Pagan holiday, because it does not celebrate a Pagan event. Yet, I do understand how and why Pagan traditions and imagery were adopted and adapted in order to create a celebration to honor and remember the death and resurrection of Jesus, and it is due to those adoptions and adaptations that led Pagans toward and into Christianity. Easter as risen. Truly it has risen. :)

There is hardly any difference with Ishtar and Ostare. These are the same. Ishtar eggs....Quick like a rabbit....are but just a few rituals done for these fake goddesses. Messiah's resurrection is Passover. Pascal is the word in the manuscript, from the Greek, mistranslated. The word Pascal means Passover never Easter.

I agree with YHVH's servant's comment. It seems clear to me when Christ was crucified it was during Passover. God says our way is set by the solar calendar, not lunar. Lunar is associated with Satan. Our family celebrates 15 days after the Solar first day of Spring. I don't think it is evil to celebrate on the date the Christian churches celebrate. To me it is a personal choice and I will not judge others. I personally see no connection to fertility and Christ's resurrection.

You wrote "God says our way is set by the solar calendar, not lunar. Lunar is associated with Satan." Having read the Bible straight through three times this year I have found no such verses. Rather the bible shows that God's feasts are based on luni-solar - months by moon and number of months in a year by the sun (barley harvest). Here are some verses you may have overlooked: 2Ki_4:23  And he said, Wherefore wilt thou go to him to day? it is neither new moon, nor sabbath. And she said, It shall be well. Psa_81:3  Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day. Isa_66:23  And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD. Eze_46:1  Thus saith the Lord GOD; The gate of the inner court that looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of the new moon it shall be opened. Eze_46:6  And in the day of the new moon it shall be a young bullock without blemish, and six lambs, and a ram: they shall be without blemish. Amo_8:5  Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit? Col_2:16  Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: Clearly the new moon was a holy day and is also the beginning of the month as God keeps time. The feasts days are the number of days into the month as shown in scripture: Exo_12:18  In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even. etc The Bible does not teach worship of Sunday according to the Gregorian calendar system. God's feasts days are according to the day of the month, not according to a pagan repeating week system.