My very vague understanding is that the two celebrations are related because the Last Supper was a Passover Seder. With that in mind how come Easter is occurring nearly a whole month before Passover this year?
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Just to clarify, though: the Last Supper was not a Passover Seder. In Jesus’ time, the Temple in Jerusalem still stood, so Passover observance was centered around an animal sacrifice. After the destruction of the Temple by the Romans in the year 70, the surviving rabbis created the Seder as a home-based observance of the holiday. Easter definitely borrows from Passover (the sacrifice of a different lamb), but there’s no evidence that the Last Supper was a Seder.
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