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191 S. Columbia St.
Hemet CA 92544
Office: 951-658-5013
Fax: 951-658-6684
Hemet CA 92544
Office: 951-658-5013
Fax: 951-658-6684
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Rooted in the Spirit...
Growing In Faith...
Reaching Out In Love...
Come Celebrate Lent and Easter with
Trinity Lutheran Church!
Trinity Lutheran Church!
When is Easter Sunday?
Easter Sunday changes from year to year. It can be as early as March or as late as April. Have you ever wondered why?
The date for Easter Sunday depends on the phases of the moon and the March equinox.
How the date of Easter is computed dates back to 325 and the First Council of Nicaea. Prior to the council, different Christian
congregations computed Easter differently using their interpretations of the Jewish calendar and the Jewish computation for
the celebration of Passover.
Some congregations felt Easter should always be on a Sunday since this was the day the women went to the tomb and
discovered it empty. These congregations moved the date for Easter away from the celebration of Passover accordingly.
Other congregations felt Easter should always be on the same date, regardless of the day of the week, and kept the
celebration closely based on the Jewish computation for Passover.
Still, both methods relied heavily on the Jewish computation for the date of Passover as their basis for the computation of the
date of Easter.
The Nicaean Council, therefore, set out to make sure:
1) Easter was always on a Sunday,
2) the date was indisputable, and
3) the date could be determined indefinitely in advance.
It was also determined that the Jewish computation for the dates for Passover would not be directly used to compute the date
of Easter.
To reach its goals, the Council set the following rules using the Julian Calendar:
1) Easter will be on the first Sunday following the first "ecclesiastical full moon" that occurs on or after the March equinox (the
vernal equinox in the northern hemisphere),
2) the "ecclesiastical full moon" is defined as always being the 14th day of a new moon, and
3) the March equinox is fixed as always falling on March 21.
It was also determined that if the first ecclesiastical full moon fell on a Sunday then Easter would be the following Sunday, not
the day of the full moon.
While the "ecclesiastical full moon" tends to follow the astronomical full moon, they are not always the same. Similarly, there
are times the March equinox falls on March 20th, not the 21st. So the statement that Easter falls on the first Sunday after the
first full moon after the vernal equinox is not precisely correct but is accurate for the most part in the northern hemisphere (in
the southern hemisphere the autumnal equinox occurs in March).
Issues arose when Pope Gregory XIII converted the church from the Julian Calendar to the Gregorian Calendar in 1582. New
tables had to be produced and the dates for Easter had to be recomputed using the new calendar system. Given the current
Gregorian formula, Easter can never be prior to March 22 and can never be later than April 25.
Eastern Orthodox Christians compute Easter slightly differently from western Christian faiths. The Orthodox faiths still use the
original Julian tables in their computations. They also differ from western computations because they base their
computations for Easter on the actual date of the astronomical full moon and the actual date of the March equinox, rather than
fixing these two events as is done in the western computation. So in some years the Orthodox date for Easter will match the
western date. But in other years it will be a week later.
Still, for all Christian faiths, Easter is the celebration of the Risen Lord.
Did you know?
> The 40 days of Lent do not count Sundays.
> March 23rd, 2008 was the earliest Easter Sunday in the period of 1990 to 2050. The latest Easter Sunday for the same period
will be April 25th, 2038.
Easter Sunday changes from year to year. It can be as early as March or as late as April. Have you ever wondered why?
The date for Easter Sunday depends on the phases of the moon and the March equinox.
How the date of Easter is computed dates back to 325 and the First Council of Nicaea. Prior to the council, different Christian
congregations computed Easter differently using their interpretations of the Jewish calendar and the Jewish computation for
the celebration of Passover.
Some congregations felt Easter should always be on a Sunday since this was the day the women went to the tomb and
discovered it empty. These congregations moved the date for Easter away from the celebration of Passover accordingly.
Other congregations felt Easter should always be on the same date, regardless of the day of the week, and kept the
celebration closely based on the Jewish computation for Passover.
Still, both methods relied heavily on the Jewish computation for the date of Passover as their basis for the computation of the
date of Easter.
The Nicaean Council, therefore, set out to make sure:
1) Easter was always on a Sunday,
2) the date was indisputable, and
3) the date could be determined indefinitely in advance.
It was also determined that the Jewish computation for the dates for Passover would not be directly used to compute the date
of Easter.
To reach its goals, the Council set the following rules using the Julian Calendar:
1) Easter will be on the first Sunday following the first "ecclesiastical full moon" that occurs on or after the March equinox (the
vernal equinox in the northern hemisphere),
2) the "ecclesiastical full moon" is defined as always being the 14th day of a new moon, and
3) the March equinox is fixed as always falling on March 21.
It was also determined that if the first ecclesiastical full moon fell on a Sunday then Easter would be the following Sunday, not
the day of the full moon.
While the "ecclesiastical full moon" tends to follow the astronomical full moon, they are not always the same. Similarly, there
are times the March equinox falls on March 20th, not the 21st. So the statement that Easter falls on the first Sunday after the
first full moon after the vernal equinox is not precisely correct but is accurate for the most part in the northern hemisphere (in
the southern hemisphere the autumnal equinox occurs in March).
Issues arose when Pope Gregory XIII converted the church from the Julian Calendar to the Gregorian Calendar in 1582. New
tables had to be produced and the dates for Easter had to be recomputed using the new calendar system. Given the current
Gregorian formula, Easter can never be prior to March 22 and can never be later than April 25.
Eastern Orthodox Christians compute Easter slightly differently from western Christian faiths. The Orthodox faiths still use the
original Julian tables in their computations. They also differ from western computations because they base their
computations for Easter on the actual date of the astronomical full moon and the actual date of the March equinox, rather than
fixing these two events as is done in the western computation. So in some years the Orthodox date for Easter will match the
western date. But in other years it will be a week later.
Still, for all Christian faiths, Easter is the celebration of the Risen Lord.
Did you know?
> The 40 days of Lent do not count Sundays.
> March 23rd, 2008 was the earliest Easter Sunday in the period of 1990 to 2050. The latest Easter Sunday for the same period
will be April 25th, 2038.
Schedule of Events:
Ash Wednesday, February 22nd: Services at 11:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m.
Wednesdays during Lent (Feb 29th, March 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th):
Services at 11:00 a.m. followed by a soup lunch at noon.
Soup dinner at 5:30 p.m. followed by a service at 6:00 p.m.
Palm Sunday (April 1): Regular service schedule - Traditional service at 9:00 a.m. and Praise service at 10:30 a.m. Both
services will be starting outside the church, weather permitting.
Maundy Thursday (April 5th): Service at 7:00 p.m.
Good Friday (April 6th): Service at 7:00 p.m.
Easter Sunday (April 8th): Regular service schedule - Traditional service at 9:00 a.m. and Praise service at 10:30 a.m.
There will be an Easter Egg hunt for the children.
Ash Wednesday, February 22nd: Services at 11:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m.
Wednesdays during Lent (Feb 29th, March 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th):
Services at 11:00 a.m. followed by a soup lunch at noon.
Soup dinner at 5:30 p.m. followed by a service at 6:00 p.m.
Palm Sunday (April 1): Regular service schedule - Traditional service at 9:00 a.m. and Praise service at 10:30 a.m. Both
services will be starting outside the church, weather permitting.
Maundy Thursday (April 5th): Service at 7:00 p.m.
Good Friday (April 6th): Service at 7:00 p.m.
Easter Sunday (April 8th): Regular service schedule - Traditional service at 9:00 a.m. and Praise service at 10:30 a.m.
There will be an Easter Egg hunt for the children.
When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing
there, but she did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to her
"Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you looking for?"
Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, "Sir, if you have
carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him
away." Jesus said to her, "Mary!" She turned and said to him in
Hebrew, "Rabbouni!" (which means Teacher). Jesus said to her, "Do
not hold on to me, because I have not yet ascended to the Father. But
go to my brothers and say to them, 'I am ascending to my Father and
your Father, to my God and your God.'" Mary Magdalene went and
announced to the disciples, "I have seen the Lord"; and she told them
that he had said these things to her.
John 20: 11-18 NRSV
there, but she did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to her
"Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you looking for?"
Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, "Sir, if you have
carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him
away." Jesus said to her, "Mary!" She turned and said to him in
Hebrew, "Rabbouni!" (which means Teacher). Jesus said to her, "Do
not hold on to me, because I have not yet ascended to the Father. But
go to my brothers and say to them, 'I am ascending to my Father and
your Father, to my God and your God.'" Mary Magdalene went and
announced to the disciples, "I have seen the Lord"; and she told them
that he had said these things to her.
John 20: 11-18 NRSV