Thursday 17/April/2025 – 07:31 PM
Dr. Ashraf Tadros, a professor of astronomy at the National Institute for Astronomical Research, revealed how the date of the Day of Resurrection is determined and why it always comes on Sunday, indicating that the glorious Easter is always in the spring and always on Sunday, and this date is determined so that it will be Sunday that comes after the full moon -the first full moon -after the spring moderation -21 March.
How is the date of the Easter and why does it come on Sunday? .. Astronomical Research reveals
Tadros continued in a Facebook post: The first full moon after the spring moderation of this year was Sunday, April 13, thus the next Sunday is April 20, 2025, continuing: Western churches depend on the Gregorian calendar – the average birth – which makes the glorious Easter always come between March 22 and April 25, and its appointment may coincide with the Jewish Easter, which originally depends on the lunar calendar unlike the Coptic calendar.
Tadros continued: As for the Coptic Orthodox Church, it depends on determining the date of the glorious Easter’s Day at the expense of the Abouti that Pope Demetrius, the 12th Patriarch, said: This account depends mainly on the Coptic calendar – the calendar of the martyrs/ solar – as it is consistent with the Julian -Anti -Anti -Modified Calendar – which differs from the western bound by about 13 days .. It always comes between April 4 and May 8.
And the professor of astronomy added: This account was put to control the date of the feast so that it always comes in the spring/ Sunday/ after the Jewish Easter as a basic condition, as it was agreed that it was followed directly by the feast of Sham Al -Naseem -the feast of the great Pharaohs for spring, life and renewal -so that it always comes on Monday -the second day of Eid -continued: Note that the Abkati account is the only account that is fully agreed with the miracle of the sacred light every year.
He concluded: This annual miracle spoke to the Church of the Resurrection in Jerusalem on the night of the Day of Resurrection – Saturday – known as the Sabbath of Joy or Saturday of light, and it is also worth noting that the whole Christian world was celebrating the glorious Day of the Resurrection according to the Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Church that was specifying the date of the celebration every year until it was separated from the amendment of the Gregorian calendar in 1582.
