Church of England clerics want Easter date fixed f

[sweet soul]

Church of England clerics have launched a campaign for Easter to be celebrated on the same weekend every year.
They believe the move would make life easier for schools and end the disruption and confusion over the timing of bank holidays.
A motion to fix Easter has been submitted to the General Synod, the Church's parliament, by Canon Andrew Dow, area dean of Cheltenham. He is supported by 44 fellow Synod members.
Over the past decade, pressure has grown from education chiefs for a set spring holiday.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1123122/Church-England-clerics-want-Easter-date-fixed-year.html

a good idea?

[radge]

Does it matter?

[sweet soul]

More than 30 local education authorities now have a fixed break for schools in March or April. If Easter falls outside the fixed break, they give pupils and teachers two extra days off for the Easter bank holidays.
Easter, the most important Christian festival, is calculated according to the lunar calendar.
In Western churches, it is the first Sunday after the first full moon that occurs on or after the spring equinox. It can fall on any
Sunday between March 22 and April 25. This year, Easter Sunday is on April 12.
Canon Dow's motion calls on the Archbishops' Council to work with the Government and other churches to fix the date of Easter on one weekend in the spring.
It may be discussed in a Synod debate over the next year.
But Church officials warned yesterday that its religious calendar would not be altered for the convenience of ministers or Whitehall.
William Fittall, secretary general of both the Synod and the Archbishops' Council, acknowledged concern among education officials.
But he said: 'The Government cannot tell Christians when to celebrate Easter.
'They can tell us when to have bank holidays and school holidays, but the issue is whether the major Christian festivals of Christmas and Easter should be recognised as major public holidays.'
A fixed Easter would end nearly two millennia of argument among the churches over how the festival's date should be calculated.

[sweet soul]

i guess it dont matter really, but might make it easier to plan stuff?

[sweet soul]

LOl at me planning stuff ; )

[sweet soul]

hmmm ive got a plan : )

[Libby]

Lol sweet soul!

It's not even necessary to plan things around Easter, we only have to look at the yearly calendar and it tells us when all the public holidays are!

My kids' schools were the same as a post above, if Easter fell within the two weeks off during the Spring, all well and good. If it didn't, the kids would just have a few extra days off on top, the kids never minded that option! lol!

I must admit, i also can't see what the fuss is all about with the clerics either!

[radge]

ahahaha SS. join the club. Yeah practically speaking they should move Easter. I doesnt matter to me because its a random holiday anyway. Good to have because work gets dull without a good break fairly regularly.

[flatandy]

Good plan. Let's rid Easter of its stupid association with passover and Jewish holidays and so on.

We all know it's basically just a primitivist celebration of rebirth and the the rebirth of the land in the spring and so on. Jesus's reincarnation is just a metaphor for the green shoots of spring. It's clearly nothing to do with pesach, so let's be rid of that religious nonsense.

Good on the clerics.