Instead -- and not just to prove my objectivity -- I hasten to report that it's a highly amusing film which probably does a fairly accurate job of reporting on the Easter vacation shenanigans of collegians down in Fort Lauderdale, and that it seems to come to grips quite honestly with the moral problem that most commonly vexes youngsters in this age group -- that is to say, sex.

The Venerable Bede says in The Reckoning of Time that this month Eostur is the root of the word Easter.

* Earliest day on which Ascension Day can fall, while June 3 is the latest ; celebrated 40 days after Easter ( Christianity ), and its related observances

* There then follows the Frühjahrsmarkt ( Spring market ) two weeks before Easter, when all the shops in the town are permitted to open on Sunday ( which is normally prohibited in Bavaria ).

* 1916 – Easter Rising: Martial law in Ireland is lifted and the rebellion is officially over with the surrender of Irish nationalists to British authorities in Dublin.

In the seventh week after Easter May 878, around Whitsuntide, Alfred rode to ‘ Egbert's Stone ’ east of Selwood, where he was met by " all the people of Somerset and of Wiltshire and of that part of Hampshire which is on this side of the sea is, west of Southampton Water, and they rejoiced to see him ".

* Earliest day on which Store Bededag or General Prayer Day can fall, while May 13 is the latest ; observed on the 4th Friday after Easter day.

A milestone in the evolution of the canon of New Testament books is his Easter letter from Alexandria, written in 367, usually referred to as his 39th Festal Letter.

Since the 2002 edition, the Apostles ' Creed is included in the Roman Missal with the indication, " Instead of the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed, especially during Lent and Easter time, the baptismal Symbol of the Roman Church, known as the Apostles ’ Creed, may be used.

From then on retail trade is only restricted on public holidays ( New Years Day, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Easter Monday, Day of Prayer, Ascension Day, Whit Sunday, Whit Monday, Christmas Day and Boxing Day ) and on Constitution Day, Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve ( on New Year's Eve from 3 pm only ).

This goal, of showing the movement towards unity, explains Bede's animosity towards the British method of calculating Easter: much of the Historia is devoted to a history of the dispute, including the final resolution at the Synod of Whitby in 664.

Any codex of Bede's Easter cycle is normally found together with a codex of his " De Temporum Ratione ".

Bock is historically associated with special occasions, often religious festivals such as Christmas, Easter or Lent.

In Austria, bockbier is traditionally brewed only around Christmas and Easter, when nearly every brewery brews its own bock.

The practice of bedecking the May Bush / Dos Bhealtaine with flowers, ribbons, garlands and coloured egg shells is found among the Gaelic diaspora, most notably in Newfoundland, and in some Easter traditions on the East Coast of the United States.

There is here given the whole service for every Sunday and week-day, the proper antiphons, responsories, hymns, and especially the course of daily Scripture-reading, averaging about twenty verses a day, and ( roughly ) arranged thus: for Advent, Isaiah ; Epiphany to Septuagesima, Pauline Epistles ; Lent, patristic homilies ( Genesis on Sundays ); Passion-tide, Jeremiah ; Easter to Whitsun, Acts, Catholic epistles and Apocalypse ; Whitsun to August, Samuel and Kings ; August to Advent, Wisdom books, Maccabees, Prophets.

Calculating the calendar of a previous year ( for the Gregorian calendar taking account of the week ) is a relatively easy matter when Easter Sunday is not included on the calendar.

However, calculating for Easter Sunday is difficult because the calculation depends on the full moon cycle.

There are only 14 different calendars when Easter Sunday is not involved.

However, when Easter Sunday is included, there are 70 different calendars ( two for each date of Easter ).

The battle which followed on April 6, 402 ( coinciding with Easter ), was a victory for Rome, though a costly one.

But both those who followed the Nisan 14 custom, and those who set Easter to the following Sunday ( the Sunday of Unleavened Bread ) had in common the custom of consulting their Jewish neighbors to learn when the month of Nisan would fall, and setting their festival accordingly.

In determining the date of the Gregorian and Julian Easter a lunisolar cycle is followed.

The reason for the reform was that the average length of the year in the Julian calendar was too long – it treated each year as 365 days, 6 hours in length, whereas calculations showed that the actual mean length of a year is slightly less ( 365 days, 5 hours and 49 minutes ) As a result, the date of the actual vernal equinox had slowly ( over the course of 13 centuries ) slipped to 10 March, while the computus ( calculation ) of the date of Easter still followed the traditional date of 21 March.

The feasts covered include the major feasts of the Virgin Mary ( including the votive masses for the Virgin for the four seasons of the church year ), All Saints and Corpus Christi ( 1605 ) followed by the feasts of the Temporale ( Christmas, Epiphany, Easter, Ascension, Whitsun and Feast of Saints Peter and Paul ( with additional items for St Peter's Chains and the Votive Mass of the Blessed Sacrament ) in 1607.

The 1988 Easter Statement from the GHQ staff of Na Fianna Éireann addressed the issue of those who followed the provisional line in the 1986 split.

This was followed by further specials in 2011 for Easter and the Bank Holidays.

Bishop Colmán argued the Ionan calculation of Easter on the following grounds that it was the practice of Columba, founder of their monastic network and a saint of unquestionable holiness, who himself had followed the tradition of St. John the apostle and evangelist.

British Christians followed a unique system of calculation for the date of Easter and also bore a distinctive tonsure ; these customs are generally associated with the practice known as Celtic Christianity.

Usually these are a Gradual followed by an Alleluia ; but between Septuagesima Sunday and Holy Saturday, or in a Requiem or other penitential Mass the Alleluia is replaced by a Tract, and between Easter Sunday and Pentecost the Gradual is replaced by a second Alleluia.

There is some doubt about the genuineness of an ordinance attributed to Constantine, in which abstinence from public business was enforced for the seven days immediately preceding Easter Sunday, and also for the seven which followed it ; the Codex Theodosianus, however, is explicit in ordering that all actions at law should cease, and the doors of all courts of law be closed during those 15 days ( 1. ii.

The last Mass before Easter is also celebrated on Holy Thursday, usually including a reenactment of the Washing of the Feet of the Apostles ; this Mass is followed by the procession of the Blessed Sacrament before it is taken to the Altar of Repose.

This is followed by the joyous Easter Mass.

This is all concluded with the Easter liturgy that occurs on Sunday night, followed by a gathering in the church where the goers can eat together and celebrate the joy of the resurrection, as well as to bring an end to their long fast.

Further series followed each year through to 1988, along with Christmas and Easter specials.

The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny was followed by the demo Bowel of Chiley in 1987 ; this recording featured a different style, incorporating the sounds of ska, swing and funk.

Plunkett was one of the original members of the IRB Military Committee that was responsible for planning the Easter Rising, and it was largely his plan that was followed.

Ua Laoghaire was soon followed by Patrick Pearse, who was to be executed as one of the leaders of the Easter Rising.

In the Church of England these Sundays retain their original designations where the Prayer Book Calendar is followed, but in the Common Worship Calendar they have been subsumed into a pre-Lent season of variable length, with anything from zero to five " Sundays before Lent " depending on the date of Easter.

After Easter, the classes start again until the end of May, followed by four weeks of examinations in June, after which three months of vacation is given.

Where this practice is followed, crucifixes remain covered until the end of the Good Friday celebration of the Lord's Passion ; statues remain covered until the beginning of the Easter Vigil.

A new translation of Eusebius ' Life of Constantine suggests that this view is no longer widely accepted ; its view is that the dispute at Nicaea was between two schools of Sunday observance: those who followed the traditional practice of relying on Jewish informants to determine the lunar month in which Easter would fall, and those who wished to set it using Christian computations.

Others say the conga dance was not a slave-chain dance, but there was dancing and chanting during Easter when the congas during the festivities followed the processions of the Virgin Mary.