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How could you fix it when it has to be a Sunday?
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How could you fix it when it has to be a Sunday?
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Why does it have to be a Sunday?
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it would probably become the last Sunday in March or the first in April etc etc
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I've gone on to the Telegraph's Twitter account and it seems that what they actually mean is having it fall in the same week every year. So Easter Sunday itself would still obviously vary. Can't see the point myself.
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If it was always the first Sunday in April I think that would be fine. But is there a point in changing it? I'm with you on that one. If it is not necessary to change, then it is necessary not to change.
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Yes, it's not like having it different every year makes it difficult to plan holidays or anything because there are dozens of websites that let you extrapolate the date of Easter for years in advance...
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Exactly. Also I'm a little concerned that it will lose its whole Christian tradition of not falling in the Jewish week of passover. I realise that on a few occasions this has already happened but if Jesus was crucified in Passover AND it was during the first full moon following the Spring Equinox, then surely it should remain. I know, as a Christian, why don't we fix the date of Islamic festival of Ramadan? Are people so thick these days that they need everything made really easily for them? Here's a radical idea if you want to know when Easter is, buy a bloody calendar!
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Archbishop says it will help schools plan their term times - give me a break - as has been said you can look up the dates for Easter for years in advance and if they can move exams around for one festival then they can work around this
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Anyway back to the Rt and today i had delivery of the 2016 covers calendar (now £4 off in the RT shop). Got to say im very pleased and surprised by it - much larger than i was expecting and loads of room under the dates to write your own notes or events and it gives milestones of broadcasting also important dates like when certain award ceremonies are
I think i might make this a permanent buy in future years |
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I like it when Easter is in March.
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I like it when Easter is in March.
![]() I'd be worried the motivation for fixing it April would be the pursuit of warmer weather. Put Easter in the last weekend in March and then make St George's Day (April 23rd) a Bank Holiday
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Put Easter in the last weekend in March and then make St George's Day (April 23rd) a Bank Holiday
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Is another Agatha Christie story on the cards for this Christmas?
http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/b...098783.article |
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Is another Agatha Christie story on the cards for this Christmas?
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just seen that |War Horse the film is on BBC Two next Saturday
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just seen that |War Horse the film is on BBC Two next Saturday
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I see the public are to choose this years Eurovision Song Contest act on BBC 4
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/eurovision |
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Put Easter in the last weekend in March and then make St George's Day (April 23rd) a Bank Holiday
![]() If we are to get another Bank Hol somewhere it needs to be late Oct/early Nov to spread them out. |
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Exactly. Also I'm a little concerned that it will lose its whole Christian tradition of not falling in the Jewish week of passover. I realise that on a few occasions this has already happened but if Jesus was crucified in Passover AND it was during the first full moon following the Spring Equinox, then surely it should remain. I know, as a Christian, why don't we fix the date of Islamic festival of Ramadan? Are people so thick these days that they need everything made really easily for them? Here's a radical idea if you want to know when Easter is, buy a bloody calendar!
If we must celebrate Christ's birth on the same day, why on earth would you not commiserate his crucifixtion or celebrate his being raised on the same days? The fact that it was passover or full moon is totally irrelvant. So why move it every year?
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As someone who probably falls in the 'So thick these days they need everything made really easily for them (sic)' brigade, could someone explain the following (which I must admit has puzzled my inadequate mind for years):-
If we must celebrate Christ's birth on the same day, why on earth would you not commiserate his crucifixtion or celebrate his being raised on the same days? The fact that it was passover or full moon is totally irrelvant. So why move it every year? ![]() |
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As someone who probably falls in the 'So thick these days they need everything made really easily for them (sic)' brigade, could someone explain the following (which I must admit has puzzled my inadequate mind for years):-
If we must celebrate Christ's birth on the same day, why on earth would you not commiserate his crucifixtion or celebrate his being raised on the same days? The fact that it was passover or full moon is totally irrelvant. So why move it every year? ![]() |
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Then we get Bank Holidays Late March (2), Late April, Early May and Late May. 5 days in 9 or 10 week, then, just 1 day (late August) between Late May and Christmas.
If we are to get another Bank Hol somewhere it needs to be late Oct/early Nov to spread them out. St Andrew's Day, at the end of November, is a public holiday for some employees in Scotland. I like that bank holiday, it signals the start of the Christmas period. |
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Its because the churches have failed to agree on when the date should be - so i dont know how Welby thinks after nearly 2000 years he can change the date buit has already said it night take a decade for any agreement
The Government could of course do that by simply seeking to pass the Easter Act 1928 into law. That provides for Easter Sunday being the Sunday after the second Saturday in April (ie 9 to 15 April) - effectively the Sunday nearest to the believed historical date of Jesus resurrection. I don't mind either way but I can see the logic in fixing Easter Sunday as the day after the second Saturday in April for a host of reasons. |
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normally my school use to break up for Easter on the Friday before Good Friday meaning two whole weeks of Easter holidays - this year as Easter is quite early they are not braking up until the Thursday before Good Friday and so are having a week after Easter off but all reverts to norm for 2017
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