SHANGRALA'S GOOD EASTER! Easter is always the 1st Sunday after the 1st full moon after the Spring Equinox. March 23 was Easter Sunday in 2008 and April 8th is Easter Sunday this year. This dating of Easter is based on the lunar calendar. Hebrew people use it to identify Passover. This is why it moves around on our Roman calendar. Based on the above, Easter can actually be one day earlier (March 22) but that is pretty rare. 2008 was the earliest Easter any of us will ever see again for the rest of our lives! And only the most elderly of our population have ever seen it this early - 95 years old or above! None of us have ever, or will ever, see it a day earlier! Here's the facts: The next time Easter will be that early, March 23, will be the year 2228 - 220 years from now. The last time it was that early was 1913. So if you're 95 or older, you're the only ones that were around for that!. The next time it will be a day earlier, March 22, will be in the year 2285 - 277 years from now. The last time it was on March 22 was way back in the year 1818. No one alive today has or will see it any earlier than 2008! Chances are considerably better for witnessing a late Easter. Many people are still around from the last time Easter fell on April 25, back in 1943, and probably a good many people of today will be around when Easter next falls on April 25, 2038.