Easter Sunday is just five days shy of the latest it could possibly be. So, why the delay? It all comes down to the moon.
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00:00As we celebrate Easter this year, you might have noticed something different.
00:05It's falling much later than usual.
00:08Easter Sunday on the 20th of April is one of the latest dates we'll see in recent
00:11memory, just five days shy of the latest it could possibly be.
00:15So why the delay?
00:16It all comes down to the moon.
00:19Easter is determined by the first Sunday after the first full moon, following the spring
00:23equinox.
00:24In 2025, the pink moon, or Paschal moon, didn't rise until the 13th of April, which shifts
00:29Easter to the following Sunday, the 20th of the month.
00:33This late timing also coincided with the March blood moon lunar eclipse, which influenced
00:37the moon's cycle.
00:38And this year, Easter, for both Orthodox and Western Christians, will fall on the same date
00:43for the first time since 2017.
00:46It's meant some Scottish parents are upset over school holiday schedules, with some kids
00:50missing out on time off on Easter Monday.
00:54So while Easter's timing is out of our hands, it's certainly got everyone talking.
00:59hot no food running, but until the end of March will be at the end of March has a
01:07warm, but our nation is not going to be a with us.
01:09So we can do it.
01:09It's essentially what these days are the things that we received.
01:10And if we have the changes, we can do all this places because of the day in the
01:15terms.
01:16And I'm going to show up here because of the new day in the world we're going to be
01:17a place to be a person.
01:18And if we have the men who have the same day in the world we are going to be a woman, this
01:21is just going to be a number one night and we see them into it.
01:23So I'm going to just wait a minute.
01:23So if you have a minute and a minute...
01:25We're going to come back here...
01:26And so...