Catholic Easter

EasterEaster is celebrated for two days: the first Easter day is the Sunday following Good Friday. Monday marks the second Easter day.
The second day is not a day off.

The Easter period lasts fifty days and begins with the celebration of the Bright Resurrection of Christ (Easter), which falls from March 22 to April 25. Being the most important great holiday, Easter is celebrated for 8 days (octaves). On the fortieth day of the Easter period, the Feast of Ascension is celebrated. The Easter period ends with the Feast of the Descent of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles, celebrated on the 50th day after the Feast of Easter.

With the introduction of the Gregorian calendar, the basic rules for calculating the day of Easter, which guide the Western Church, remained the same, but the calendar reform introduced some changes in the order of calculations of Easter. Therefore, the dates of the celebration of Easter and Easter coincide extremely rarely and, as a rule, have a discrepancy of one week (sometimes this discrepancy reaches 1 month).