Tyco Trains

Welcome to the forum.

	Username:

	Password:

Save Password

Register
Forgot your Password?

[ Active Members: 1 | Anonymous Members: 0 | Guests: 153 ] [ Total: 154 ] [ Newest Member: mflores ]

Select Skin:

All Forums

General HO Train Discussions

Loose Ends

Happy Easter

All users can post NEW topics in this forum
All users can reply to topics in this forum

Printer Friendly

Alco Fan
Big Boy

Status: offline

Posted - March 22 2008 : 6:23:57 PM

Happy Easter to you and yours.

Alco Fan

Country:

USA ~ Posts: 2496 ~ Member Since: August 03 2006 ~ Last Visit: September 17 2024

Alert Moderator

Brianstyco
Big Boy

Status: offline

Posted - March 22 2008 : 11:48:49 PM

Happy Easter Bob and all. For the Christian members / believers--It is the Resurrection we celebrate--For the non believers-Have a Great Day also.

Country:

USA ~ Posts: 2507 ~ Member Since: January 31 2006 ~ Last Visit: October 21 2017

Alert Moderator

shaygetz
Big Boy

Status: offline

Posted - March 23 2008 : 01:40:54 AM

Thank you...and to you and yours a blessed holiday.

...thought some of you would find this interesting.

Resurrection Sunday, more commonly known as Easter, is only a few days away. This year we celebrate Easter on March 23rd, almost a month before Passover. Yet Christ was crucified on Passover, so why are they an entire month apart?

Passover is observed on the 14th day of the month of Nisan, the first month of the religious year. Jesus was crucified on Passover and rose on the 3rd day, appropriately on the Feast of Firstfruits (the morning after the Sabbath after Passover). This was always on a Sunday, irrespective of the day of the week of Passover. Thus, Christians have traditionally celebrated His resurrection on Sunday.

In the West, most of our major holidays occur conveniently on fixed dates. However unless you are an astronomer, the date of Easter can be much more difficult to determine. That's because its date is set by the lunar calendar. The rules for determining the date of Easter were imposed by Constantine and the Council of Nicaea in AD 325, long before the advent of the Gregorian calendar that is most widely used in the world today. Easter is celebrated on the first Sunday, after the first full moon, after the spring equinox. Therefore, it is held on a Sunday on varying dates between March 22 and April 25.

This year Passover begins at sunset on April 19th, almost a month after Easter, in part because it is a Jewish leap year. During leap years, an entire month is added to the Hebrew calendar. Furthermore, this year Easter comes early, very early. In fact, the next time Easter will fall this early will be in the year 2228 – not for another 220 years. The last time it fell on March 23rd was the year 1913. Easter sometimes falls on March 22nd, a day earlier, however that hasn't happened since 1818 and won't happen again until the year 2285 – in another 277 years. What does that mean? No one alive today has or will ever celebrate it any earlier.

---from the newsletter of www.khouse.org

Posts: 2465 ~ Member Since: April 15 2007 ~ Last Visit: December 01 2023

Alert Moderator

Ray Marinaccio
Big Boy