Dates of Passover & Easter:

Published on March 15, 2022

At the council of Nicaea in 325, the date for Easter was fixed as the Sunday after the full moon after the spring equinox. Sunday April 17th 2022 is the Feast of Easter. Eastern Christians calculate the date of Easter according to the Julian calendar, the Calendar in general use before the Gregorian Reform of 1582. One of the reforms was the removal of ten days from the calendar and this discrepancy, now thirteen days, between the Julian and Gregorian calendars results often in a difference in the date for Easter in East and West as they follow the two calendars. This happens in 2022 when the date for Easter for Eastern Christians is Sunday April 24th. The Feast of Passover is a seven day Feast, beginning at sundown on the evening of April 15th 2022 (14 Nisan 5782).

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Reflection

Jesus tells his disciples to look at him and touch him. Then he asks them for something to eat. What does Pope Francis say we can learn from these three actions of Jesus?
The second verb is to touch. By inviting the disciples to touch him, to verify that he is not a ghost—touch me!— Jesus indicates to them and to us that the relationship with him and with our brothers and sisters cannot remain “at a distance.” Christianity does not exist at a distance; Christianity does not exist only at the level of looking. Love requires looking and it also requires closeness; it requires contact, the sharing of life. The Good Samaritan did not limit himself to looking at that man whom he found half dead along the road: he stopped, he bent down, he treated his wounds, he touched him, he loaded him onto his mount and took him to the inn. And it is the same with Jesus himself: loving him means entering into a communion of life, a communion with him.
Being Christian is not first a doctrine or a moral ideal; it is a living relationship with him, with the Risen Lord: we look at him, we touch him, we are nourished by him and, transformed by his Love; we look at, touch and nourish others as brothers and sisters.
Pope Francis,