Why is Easter always on a Sunday?

We don't know the date Jesus rose from the dead but we do know it was the first day of the week following Passover.

The first day of the week always falls on Sunday.

because Jesus was resurrected on sunday

because apparently jesus rose on a sunday.

IT'S A MIRACLE !!!!

"At the time when Roman Emperor Constantine made apostate Christianity the state religion (325 C.E.), the Council of Nicaea ordained that the celebration of Easter should always take place on the Sunday that immediately follows the full moon that happens upon, or next after, the day of the spring (vernal) equinox. Usually this equinox date is March 21. Should the fourteenth day from the new moon, which they regarded as the day of the full moon, fall on a Sunday, the celebration of Easter was deferred to the Sunday following. This was in order to avoid concurrence with the Jews and the minority of Christians, termed Quartodecimans, who still celebrated on the fourteenth of Nisan. In this way Christendom has come to have their “Maundy Thursday” always on a Thursday to commemorate Jesus’ Last Supper, and their “Good Friday” always on a Friday to commemorate his death.

"At least by 1880 Jehovah’s ... worshipers had departed from Christendom’s practice of celebrating the Lord’s Evening Meal several times a year and they observed it only on Nisan 14 after sundown. From then till about 1919 the anointed Christians accepted the dates as established by the Jewish calendar for the determining of Nisan 14. They realized that the Jewish calendar listed “Passover” for Nisan 15, after sundown. However, they arranged to celebrate the Lord’s Evening Meal on the night of Nisan 14, which is what Jesus did. Still, these Christians used the old Jewish calendar in accepting the determination of the month of Nisan for each year."

"The Lord’s Evening Meal—An Observance That Honors God"
http://watchtower.org/e/bh/appendix_06.htm

It may occasionally land on a Sunday, but, not usually.
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Easter is set by the first full moon after the vernal equinox. This is the one day in the year when day and night are roughly equal!

It varies by more than a month over the years and so it simply cannot represent the date of anyone's death!!!

It is in fact a combination of several pagan festivals most notably the spring festival.

The name Easter comes from “Eastre” an Anglo-Saxon pagan goddess. Also the Norse goddess,Ostara who took her name from the Teutonic lunar goddess Eostre

Even the Chinese have the festival of Ching Ming where flowers and sweets are put on their ancestors graves!!

The egg and the rabbit are symbols of springtime and rebirth along with the custom of giving flowers etc!!

The Venerable Bede, an early Christian writer pointed out that the Christian church absorbed Pagan practices when it found the population unwilling to give up the festivals. Thus a lot of what Christians now see as Christians practices are in fact pagan!!!

Fun to watch the Christians worshiping a pagan festival though - makes it just like Christmas when they do the same thing!!!

Easter is the 3rd day after Good Friday. Good Friday happens at the Passover, which is defined as the first Friday, after the first full moon, after the Spring Equinox. Thus, Good Friday is always a Friday (and Easter always a Sunday), which means it's date changes, but not the day. Your birthday date stays the same, but the day changes, as the year does not always start on the same day.

I guess it was just decided and agreed upon