Show EASTER SUNDA SUNDAY Y Easter Sunda Sunday which falls on March 28 this year is is by Christians in commemoration of Christs Christ's resurrection but not as an actual ann anniversary ersary as its date varies from year to year in in accordance with a method of corn com computing it adopted by the Council of Nice in the year The custom of celebrating Easter is really ass an outgrowth of the Jewish Passover There is no trace of its observance as a Christian festival in the New I Testa Testament Testament ment or in the of- of the apostolic fathers In fact nc neither ther Christ nor the apostles enjoined the keeping of this or an any other festival But as most of the early Chris Chris- Christians Christians were derived from from the J Jew Jew- ew- ew isIs ish church many of the old Jew Jew- Jewish isIs ish festivals continued to be ob observed served b by them and gradually passed into the Christian calendar The name of Easter is derived from the Saxon Anglo god goddess goddess dess of spring and many customs h have marked the days day's observance observance vance are arc drawn from pagan sour sour- sources sources ces I In n the ancient church the cele celebration bration of Easter lasted eight days but after the eleventh century it was limited to three later hater to two and finally to one The proper time for the observance observance ance of Easter has been the thc sub sub- subject subject of hitter bitter controversy among various Christian groups In the year Pope Victor of f sos sus and his entire Asiatic follow follow- following I ing for not conforming to the Roman man custom The Greek church did not adopt the Roman date un- un until til 1923 so that only luring during the thelast thelast last 14 years ears has the entire Chris Chris- Christian Christian tian world observed Easter East r simul- simul According to present Easter can not occur earlier than March 22 or later than April 25 23 The last time it fell on March 1 22 was in 1818 after which some three centuries must elapse be- be before before fore it occurs so early again It fell on April 25 23 the last time in 1886 1836 and ill occur so late only once in the present century in 1943 |