Easter 2012 Dates

For the Easter 2012 Dates, look a few lines under here. So how are Easter dates calculated? To determine what the Easter 2012 dates will be or when any Easter Holiday will be celebrated each year in the future, you first have to understand a few facts about Easter dates and how they are determined. Easter Sunday is the first day of Easter and is the most important easter date to determine, so the calculation of this day is where we will be focusing on. The date of Easter Sunday is determined by calculating the first sunday AFTER the date of the Paschal Full Moon, also called PFM. Since 325 AD, by the hand of the First Council of Nicaea(Christian Bishops), we're approximating the date of Easter by looking at the full moon dates. They call this full moon date the Ecclesiastical Full Moon (also called EFM). Now each PFM date is the first sunday after the EFM, after the 20th of March of each year. The date of Easter will be the first sunday AFTER this PFM date.

Since it's all a bit confusing with all the "FM" terms we hope that you were able to follow what is described aboved. You might want to read it a few times before you really grasp it but it's fun to know how the date of Easter is calculated. If you want to know more about Easter 2012 Dates and how EFM/PFM dates are calculated you can search on the internet or find it in any library. If you put in some time you might be able to calculate what the Easter dates are by yourself. You could calculate the Easter 2012 dates by yourself.

What Is Easter

Easter is the day we celebrate the day that Jesus stood up from the dead after he was crucified. Although Easter is celebrated over two days (Easter Sunday and Easter Monday), the Sunday is the most important day when it comes to this celebration of Jesus' rise from the dead. Read further Easter Sunday is also called "Resurrection Day" or "Easter Day". The precise date of Jesus' rise is unkown but it is estimated to have happened between AD 26 and AD 36, a ten year difference. Since as long as Christanities' history goes, Easter has been the end of a 40-day period when Christians would pray and fast(meaning to willingly eat less food as they would normally eat). When this fasting and praying period would be in the end of its last week (which also contains Good Friday, see here for Good Friday 2012) they would throw in a party and celebrate the rise of Jesus from the dead and the end of the praying and fasting period. The ending of this 40-day period we call: Easter.





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