Palm Sunday/Good Friday

[JehovahsWitness]

I'm looking for a link or a reference for the first decree in relation to PALM SUNDAY & GOOD FRIDAY establishing they were from that moment to be celebrated as movable holidays on a set DAY (rather than one on a fixed DATE).

Thanks for any input.

JW

[McCulloch]

The story cannot be reduced quite that simplistically. The Easter controversy is a series of controversies about the proper date to celebrate the Christian holiday of Easter. To date, there are four distinct historical phases of the dispute and the dispute has yet to be resolved.

1. First phase circa A.D. 190
2. Second phase starting about A.D. 325 First Council of Nicaea
3. Third phase Synod of Whitby in AD 664
4. Fourth phase the Gregorian calendar in 1582
5. Ongoing -- In 1997 the World Council of Churches proposed a reform of the method of determining the date of Easter at a summit in Aleppo, Syria: Easter would be defined as the first Sunday following the first astronomical full moon following the astronomical vernal equinox, as determined from the meridian of Jerusalem. The reform would have been implemented starting in 2001, since in that year the Eastern and Western dates of Easter would coincide. This reform has not yet been implemented.

[JehovahsWitness]

The story cannot be reduced quite that simplistically. The Easter controversy is a series of controversies about the proper date to celebrate the Christian holiday of Easter. To date, there are four distinct historical phases of the dispute and the dispute has yet to be resolved.

1. First phase circa A.D. 190
2. Second phase starting about A.D. 325 First Council of Nicaea
3. Third phase Synod of Whitby in AD 664
4. Fourth phase the Gregorian calendar in 1582
5. Ongoing -- In 1997 the World Council of Churches proposed a reform of the method of determining the date of Easter at a summit in Aleppo, Syria: Easter would be defined as the first Sunday following the first astronomical full moon following the astronomical vernal equinox, as determined from the meridian of Jerusalem. The reform would have been implemented starting in 2001, since in that year the Eastern and Western dates of Easter would coincide. This reform has not yet been implemented.

ha! I was afraid of that... still the churches in the 20th century DO celebrate Easter on as a movable holiday on a fixed day... surely there was some decree of somthing that (despite controversy) said, okay, all Catholics will do it this way...

(I'll read through the links, thanks)

[ThatGirlAgain]

The story cannot be reduced quite that simplistically. The Easter controversy is a series of controversies about the proper date to celebrate the Christian holiday of Easter. To date, there are four distinct historical phases of the dispute and the dispute has yet to be resolved.

An important sidelight to the story is the work of Dionysus Exiguus in the early 6th century. He developed a simple methodology for calculating the date of Easter that agreed with the Alexandrian method and was also adopted by Rome, thus settling the disagreement between the two.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysius_ ... ter_tables

Dionysus also introduced the Anno Domini system, using years from a calculated date for the birth of Christ for his Easter tables. Dionysus never explained how he arrived at this, but it was accepted as a welcome change from the then popular system of using dates from the reign of Diocletian, who persecuted Christians.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysius_ ... nno_Domini