Assigning Easter to a fixed Sunday

[Digitonomy]

Came across this recently, in Sacrosanctum Concilium:
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A DECLARATION OF THE SECOND ECUMENICAL COUNCIL OF THE VATICAN ON REVISION OF THE CALENDAR

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The Second Ecumenical Sacred Council of the Vatican, recognizing the importance of the wishes expressed by many concerning the assignment of the feast of Easter to a fixed Sunday and concerning an unchanging calendar, having carefully considered the effects which could result from the introduction of a new calendar, declares as follows:

1. • The Sacred Council would not object if the feast of Easter were assigned to a particular Sunday of the Gregorian Calendar, **provided that those whom it may concern, especially the brethren who are not in communion with the Apostolic See, give their assent. **
   • The sacred Council likewise declares that it does not oppose efforts designed to introduce a perpetual calendar into civil society.
   But among the various systems which are being suggested to stabilize a perpetual calendar and to introduce it into civil life, the Church has no objection only in the case of those systems which retain and safeguard a seven-day week with Sunday, without the introduction of any days outside the week, so that the succession of weeks may be left intact, unless there is question of the most serious reasons. Concerning these the Apostolic See shall judge.
   • Is there now, or was there then, any strong movement to fix Easter to a specific week in the year?
   • And does the part that I bolded refer only to the Orthodox, or to other Christian groups as well? And even if only to the Orthodox, were they envisioning unanimity on this issue from the various churches?

 

[Deacon_Ed]

Yes, there have been numerous movements to provide a fixed date for Easter – none have succeeded.

Deacon Ed

 

[Digitonomy]

Do you have any links, perchance? This sounds at once bizarre and intriguing.

 

[Sir_Knight]

Easter is ALREADY assigned to a fixed Sunday – it is the first Sunday after the full moon following the Vernal Equinox. Seems pretty simple to me.

How else would you do it? You can’t assign it to a particular date because it has to fall on a Sunday and by singling [sp] out a particular Sunday, that would be no different from the way that it is done now by singling [sp] out the first Sunday after the full moon following the Vernal Equinox.

 

[pazdziernik]

Not all Churches seperated from the Bishop of Rome are Orthodox, e.g. Assyrian Church of the East. I suppose any movement for a “Fixed Sunday”, e.g First Sunday in April, or a “Common Sunday” , e.g. First Sunday on or after the first full moon of spring, would have to include the non-Othodox as well.

 

[mercygate]

I note with interest the reference to a seven-day week. Remember when the French Revolution gave us the 10-day week? Kinda wreaks havoc with the sabbatarian principle, doesn’t it?

 

[turboEDvo]

mercygate:

I note with interest the reference to a seven-day week. Remember when the French Revolution gave us the 10-day week? Kinda wreaks havoc with the sabbatarian principle, doesn’t it?

Well, that just means I’ll to go to Mass ten days a week instead of seven days a week.

Eamon