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What determines the good friday and easter holidays?

I mean sometimes, this holidays come late march,some other years early April,and some other times late April.I'm just wondering, the criteria used in allocating a day for the pass over, in a given year, thank in advance for your generous insights.

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1. equinox......google it....its a movable holiday....same meaning
2. Vernal equinox.
3. easter has nothing to do with the resurrection of Jesus. Friday was the day that He was crucified and He rose on the third day. according to the Jewish calender, that was on Sunday.
4. Christianity got its holidays (like Easter) from pagan traditions. It falls on the equinox, which is a holiday that happens on a different day each year. Like the winter equinox, wihch is the shortest day of daylight of the year. Falls on a different day in december.
5. Friday was when he was crucified, and sunday was when he saw his shadow and ran back into the tomb. So then they had 6 more weeks of winter.
6. Simply put, Easter is the first Sunday after the first full moon of Spring. Good Friday, then, is the Friday preceding that Sunday.
7. The date of Good Friday changes every year. The reason for this variation in the date of Easter is based on the lunar calendar (moon) rather than our more well-known solar one. Easter always falls on the first Sunday following the full Moon (the Paschal Full Moon). If the Full Moon falls on a Sunday then Easter is the next Sunday. The Friday before Easter Sunday is Good Friday.
8. the spring equinox. it was when the pagan's celebrated the whole "rebirth" of the earth. WHen the Catholics were establishing times to celebrate various things - like the Ressurrection (aka rebirth) of Christ - it seemed like the perfect time. it was like taking a child and having them grow up -- same person and yet, completely different.
9. These dates have been holidays for longer than history can work out.
10. Easter is the Sunday following the first New Moon after the Vernal Equinox.