Ecclesiastical nitpicking
May. 11th, 2014 12:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
necturusSomeone got up in front of the assembled multitude at church and declared today to be the fourth Sunday after Easter. That's wrong; it is only the third Sunday after Easter Day, which was of course a Sunday.
But Easter, like Christmas, is a season, and whereas that dark and depressing time of year lasts a mere twelve days, Easter consists of fifty days, eight of them Sundays. Today is therefore the fourth Sunday *of* Easter, not after it.
But Easter, like Christmas, is a season, and whereas that dark and depressing time of year lasts a mere twelve days, Easter consists of fifty days, eight of them Sundays. Today is therefore the fourth Sunday *of* Easter, not after it.
