 | George Atkinson Walker - 1845 - 128 pages
...it was determined that Easter should be in all places kept on the same day, and that day should be the first Sunday after the first full moon after the Vernal Equinox, taking the 21st of March as that Equinox. This decision of an (Ecumenical Council binding the whole... | |
 | Charles McCarthy - 1868 - 222 pages
...coincide with, or follow next after the Vernal Equinox ; in other words, that Easter Sunday should be the first Sunday after the first full moon, after the Vernal Equinox. According to this Easter Sunday must always occur between the 22nd March and 25th April, inclusively.... | |
 | Charles McCarthy - 1868 - 222 pages
...coincide with, or follow next after the Vernal Equinox ; in other words, that Easter Sunday should be the first Sunday after the first full moon, after the Vernal Equinox. According to this Easter Sunday must always occur between the 22nd March and 25th April, inclusively.... | |
 | John B. Bagshawe - Apologetics - 1873 - 330 pages
...of the month each year. These moveable feasts generally depend upon Easter. Easter Sunday is always on " the first Sunday after -the first full moon after the vernal equinox." The vernal equinox is the 21st of March, and the full moon may be the day after, or nearly four weeks... | |
 | Edward Moore - Time in literature - 1887 - 180 pages
...Calendar was regulated, ehiefly with a view to the determination of Easter (sinee that is eelebrated on the first Sunday after the first Full Moon after the Vernal Equinox) ', by eeelesiastieal authority, as early as the Couneil of Nieaea ; and by some ' partieular and national... | |
 | Edward Moore - 1887 - 170 pages
...explains the form of the present rule which took the place of the Quartodeciman practice. Easter was to be the first Sunday after the first Full Moon after the Vernal Equinox, at which time the year was thought to begin. Thus it was the best approximation that could be made... | |
 | Samuel Macauley Jackson - Religion - 1889 - 1010 pages
...Christian spirit. The date of its observance, such as it has been fixed bv the Council of Nice, 325, is the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox. As the vernal equinox invariably falls on March 21, the first full moon after the equinox may occur... | |
 | Benjamin Whitehead - Ecclesiastical law - 1892 - 352 pages
...usually called paseha, from the passover ; Fr. paques). Easter Day is the Feast of the Resurrection, and is kept on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the 21st March, and all the other movable feasts are reckoned from it (s). EASTER OFFERINGS are oblations... | |
 | Edward Lewes Cutts - Great Britain - 1895 - 276 pages
...Churches, for the sake of uniformity, to adopt the Western usage, and to celebrate the great festival on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox. But it required some astronomical science to calculate the day beforehand, and the duty was laid upon... | |
 | Edward Lewes Cutts - Great Britain - 1895 - 258 pages
...Churches, for the sake of uniformity, to adopt the Western usage, and to celebrate the great festival on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox. But it required some astronomical science to calculate the day beforehand, and the duty was laid upon... | |
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Western usage, and to celebrate the great festival on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox. 
