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(+17*F.....s/wind chill.....sunny)
( Best of Wagner)
We are under yet another "lake effect snow" alert from 10AM today through 4PM tomorrow, at present it's as you can see above +17*F and no wind.......so it doesn't look like at least we will get snow right away......
Now I wasn't brought up Catholic.....and although we have discovered as of late that some of our genetic roots are semite aka jewish.......I wasn't brought up that way either......just old fashion rural Bible Church..........so this lent deal, passover, and why Easter jumped around so much....confused me as a kid...
this year Ash Wednesday falls on St. Valentine's Day (2/14) and Easter Sunday on (4/1).....April Fools Day......oy vey
After a little research I have the answer, always suspected what was going on but never took the time, to actually research it
Passover always runs from Nissan 15-22...Nissan is the first month of the jewish calendar.....which is a lunar/solar calendar......12 months each with 29 or 30 days and each month starting at a new moon.....7 times in every 19 years a "Leap month" is added to bring it back in line with the solar cycle
Now as to Lent.....lent is a 43 day period which begins on Ash Wednesday and ends on the thursday before the first day of Passover......(always thought that Lent ended with Easter...but then I wasn't raised Catholic)
Therefore the gregorian calendar is a solar calendar that we adjust every 4 years with a leap day to get back in line with the solar cycle.....and since Lent is timed off a lunar/solar calendar with adjusts by leap months, the 2 different calendars rarely if every are in perfect harmony ....and that's why the date for Easter Sunday is different year to year......
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(+17*F.....s/wind chill.....sunny)
( Best of Wagner)
We are under yet another "lake effect snow" alert from 10AM today through 4PM tomorrow, at present it's as you can see above +17*F and no wind.......so it doesn't look like at least we will get snow right away......
Now I wasn't brought up Catholic.....and although we have discovered as of late that some of our genetic roots are semite aka jewish.......I wasn't brought up that way either......just old fashion rural Bible Church..........so this lent deal, passover, and why Easter jumped around so much....confused me as a kid...
this year Ash Wednesday falls on St. Valentine's Day (2/14) and Easter Sunday on (4/1).....April Fools Day......oy vey
After a little research I have the answer, always suspected what was going on but never took the time, to actually research it
Passover always runs from Nissan 15-22...Nissan is the first month of the jewish calendar.....which is a lunar/solar calendar......12 months each with 29 or 30 days and each month starting at a new moon.....7 times in every 19 years a "Leap month" is added to bring it back in line with the solar cycle
Now as to Lent.....lent is a 43 day period which begins on Ash Wednesday and ends on the thursday before the first day of Passover......(always thought that Lent ended with Easter...but then I wasn't raised Catholic)
Therefore the gregorian calendar is a solar calendar that we adjust every 4 years with a leap day to get back in line with the solar cycle.....and since Lent is timed off a lunar/solar calendar with adjusts by leap months, the 2 different calendars rarely if every are in perfect harmony ....and that's why the date for Easter Sunday is different year to year......
(this could be a personal best currently 6 windows and 8 additional tabs)
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