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Archbishop Welby wants to see the Easter festival on "the second or third Sunday in April", or perhaps according to the statute of 1928, which would place it usually on the second Sunday but occasionally on the third...

Do you use (a) an empirical calendar based on naked-eye sightings of the lunar crescent, as described in the Mishnah? (b) some other empirical calendar? (c) a semi-empirical calendar based on the appearance of the new lunar crescent, but which makes use of available helps such as the one at...

Sunset tomorrow night, Friday March 23, 2012, begins the month of Nisan according to the Rabbinic lunar calendar. Sunset the following day, Saturday March 24, 2012, begins the Easter-month (the lunar month in which Easter falls) in the Gregorian lunar calendar. Because of the trigonometric...

Happy St. Patrick's day, everyone! Some here might be interested in a couple of passages from St. Patrick's Confession that I posted in the St. Patrick's day thread over on the "Ancient Way" board.