Easter 2019

The Easter Moon is shining over Magdalena and I have to say I really like Easter time.

Christmas is so commercial, so much pressure to buy presents, spend money, but Easter has none of that, bar the necessity to buy a few chocolate eggs. Easter is a moveable feast based on the moon which provides us with a link with Pagan/Pre-Christian times.

DATES OF EASTER

Back in the 7th Century their was confusion between the Irish Church and the Roman Church about the date of Easter but the Synod of Whitby in 664AD brought the Irish into line.

In 1928 the British Government planned to set the date of Easter in the UK as the Sunday following the second Saturday of April. This would set the date of Easter between 9th and 15th April each year but although the Easter Act 1928 received Royal Assent, it was never brought into force.

As Easter is about rebirth after winter, being the Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox, it should be in September/October in the Southern Hemisphere but here it is after the Autumnal Equinox so it follows the northern date.

EASTER SUNDAY

So the day itself followed a similar pattern as it would in Ireland, mass and then chocolate eggs.

EASTER MONDAY

We got Thursday and Friday off so Easter Monday is not a holiday here, it’s a school and work day. Here we are on our way there at 08:30am. This is a poorly taken selfie.

EASTER TUESDAY

So that’s it for another year, on Tuesday I polished off the last of my egg.

And watched the snooker. Something I remember from my childhood is eating Easter eggs and watching snooker. Poor Ronnie.

That’s it for now. See you soon.