How The Dates For Lent Are Calculated
- It depends on the date of Easter. But since roughly the First Council of Nicaea in 325 CE, the date of Easter has been more or less determined by locating the first full moon following March 21 on the Gregorian calendar. And that’s how the date is determined by Western churches today.
- Orthodox Christians use a slightly different system — which means that when Orthodox Easter (sometimes called Pascha) lands on the same day as Western Easter, it’s coincidental.
- Once the date for Easter is fixed, all you have to do to calculate the other days of observance that fall during the Lenten period.
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