Christian world celebrates the resurrection / day of Jesus Christ

The Easter date is variable as it depends on the phase of the moon. Other Christian celebrations are celebrated depending on Easter date.

Today Easter celebrates Catholics, Lutherans, Orthodox and Baptists.

Jesus Christ’s Resurrection Festival is closely linked to the Jewish Passover, because according to the testimony of the New Testament, the death of Jesus was in the Passover Festival, which is celebrated the day before the first day of the full moon after the beginning of spring. The Jews commemorate the departure of Egypt’s slavery during the festival.

But the first Christians, the day after Christ’s crucifixion, where the resurrected Christ appeared to His disciples, called the Lord’s Day. So the Christian Church began to celebrate every Sunday as the day of the resurrection of Christ.

Theologians from different edges of the Roman Empire once discussed who was the right Easter date. In 325, the Nickay’s concilian theologians abandoned the law that Easter was to be celebrated at the same time as the Passover Celebration, and stated that they should be celebrated on Sunday after the first full moon after the beginning of spring.

However, the confusion continued, and the festival continued to celebrate on different dates, as there were different opinions on the beginning of spring in the Roman Empire. In 525, Dionysiy Exigius determined March 21 as the beginning of spring. Astronomically spring begins on March 20 or March 21, when day and night are the same length.

It was only in 800, when Karl Great ruled, the whole Christian world began to celebrate Easter on one date. But the consensus only lasted until the Middle Ages, when Pope Gregor made a calendar reform in 1582. Catholics and Evangelical Christians adopted a reformed calendar, but most Orthodox Christians hold on to Julian’s calendar.

The gospels tell us that on this day the wives came to the grave very early and carried the grass. But they found the grave empty, without the body of Jesus in it. « When they didn’t know what to do, two men came to them in shining clothes. And when they dried their eyes to the ground, they said to them, ‘What are you looking for living with the dead? He’s not here, but is risen, « the evangelist Luke writes.

The event of Easter, or the resurrection of Christ, is what gives people victory over sin, death, gives the hope of eternal life, says the Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church.