Easter date and Pentecost date

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A person argued with me saying that we Catholics don’t celebrate Pentecost at the right time. This is what he posted:
In order to celebrate Pentecost in the biblical time, we must cclebrate Passover in the biblical time.
Leviticus 23:5-6:-In the first hebrew month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight is the LORD’S Passover. Then on the fifteenth day of the same month there is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the LORD; for seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.
How do you choose the easter date?

and from passover count 49 days
Leviticus 23:15-16:-You shall also count for yourselves from the day after the sabbath, from the day when you brought in the sheaf of the wave offering; there shall be seven complete sabbaths. You shall count fifty days to the day after the seventh sabbath; then you shall present a new grain offering to the LORD.
I don’t understand this argument. Could someone please explain?
 
We determine the date of Easter as the first Saturday night/ Sunday after the full moon after the spring equinox. I guess it wasn’t until AD 325 that "the Council of Nicaea (A.D. 325) set the date of Easter as the Sunday following the paschal full moon, which is the full moon that falls on or after the vernal (spring) equinox. We know that Easter must always occur on a Sunday, because Sunday was the day of Christ’s Resurrection. But why the paschal full moon? Because that was the date of Passover in the Jewish calendar, and the Last Supper (Holy Thursday) occurred on the Passover. Therefore, Easter was the Sunday after Passover.

The Church does not use the exact date of the paschal full moon but an approximation, because the paschal full moon can fall on different days in different time zones, which would mean that the date of Easter would be different depending on which time zone you live in. For calculation purposes, the full moon is always set at the 14th day of the lunar month (the lunar month begins with the new moon). Likewise, the Church sets the date of the vernal equinox at March 21, even though it can occur on March 20. Both approximations allow the Church to set a universal date for Easter.

Still, Easter isn’t celebrated universally on that date. While Western Christians use the Gregorian calendar (the calendar that’s used throughout the West today, in both the secular and religious worlds) to calculate the date of Easter, the Eastern Orthodox continue to use the older, astronomically inaccurate Julian calendar. Currently, March 21 on the Julian calendar falls on April 3 in the Gregorian calendar. Therefore, for the Orthodox, the Sunday following the 14th day of the paschal full moon has to fall after April 3, hence the discrepancy in the date of Easter."

We then celebrate Pentecost 50 days after the Resurrection. So, we do celebrate it at the correct time. We are not Jewish though and, although the dates are similar, we have come to regard Sundays as the Sabbath. Basically too, you could say that he doesn’t attend service on the correct day (if he attends service at all) because he doesn’t go on Friday nights.
 
HI bnb,

Your post is correct except for one thing. Even those who use the same calendar as we do, don’t figure out the date of Easter the same way, e.g. the Greeks… Whereas we set the date of Easter as the first Sunday of the spring equinox, they celebrate the holy day on the Sunday following Passover. Because the Jewish calendar is lunar, it does not jive with ours. Sometimes Easter is on the same day for both of us, mostly it is not. Even if we were to use the Julian calendar ourselves, our date for Easter would still be mostly different. Do I make myself clear?

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