The Fully Traditional Roman Catholic Ordo, Published by St. Lawrence Press
The Press Has Announced that 2011 Will Be a Rare Year
In Which the Date of Easter Will Fall as Late As It Can Ever Get Save One Day
That Has Not Happened in 152 Years!
In the calendar implemented by the Papal Bull Inter gravissimas of Pope Gregory XIII on February 24, 1582, and therefore known as the "Gregorian calendar," the method of calculating the date of Easter was restated in such a way that the date had to fall between March 22 and April 25, inclusively. Even most traditional Catholics are ignorant of the fact that this historic information is to be found in the front matter of the traditional Missale Romanum, in the section entitled De Anno et Eius Partibus.
The St. Lawrence Press, which publishes annually the fully Traditional Roman Catholic Ordo, has announced that 2011 will be a rare year, one in which the date of Easter will fall as late as it can ever get save one day, on April 24. Easter has not fallen that late for 152 years and will not fall that late again for another 84 years. In 1943, Easter last fell on the latest possible date, April 25, and will fall on that date again in 2038.
During the second century a heated dispute arose over the date of Easter. Pope Victor I terminated the controversy by threatening with excommunication all those who failed to comply with the Roman custom, which set Easter on the Sunday following the fourteenth day of the full moon, when the Passover began. That day was regarded as the exact date on which Christ arose from the dead, according to the authority of Sts. Peter and Paul. The date was confirmed by the First Oecumenical Council of the Church at Nicaea, two centuries later. The reason why Easter is fixed on the Sunday following the fourteenth day is to avoid coinciding with the Jews, in case the fourteenth day itself falls on a Sunday.
The Vatican II Council floated a trial balloon to change the date of Easter, issued as an Appendix to that Council's devastating Liturgy Constitution, Sacrosanctum concilium, which opened the way for the invalid Novus Ordo service. The idea was that the date of Easter would fall on a fixed Sunday in the Gregorian calendar. This trial balloon immediately flew up into the aether and was never to be seen again
