Calculating dates...
Submitted by Dirk Gently on May 02 2000 21:53:34
In reply to Calculating dates... submitted by Pendragon on May 01 2000 01:22:54
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Hi, Pendragon. Yes, my greetings were a week behind the western observances for both Good Friday and Easter. As Bach explained, I'm "in the Orthodox tradition." The question of how to determine the feast of the Resurrection was important enough to make it onto the agenda of the First Ecumenical Council, but even that didn't eliminate the difference between the Roman practice and the practice observed by the other major centres of Christianity (Jerusalem, Alexandria, and Antioch). Today it is only the Christians who follow Rome's tradition that celebrate the Resurrection of Christ before the end of the Passover. The Orthodox Churches, as well as the non-Chalcedonian bodies such as the Armenians, the Copts, the Nestorians, and the Ethiopians all celebrate the Resurrection on the same date. Next year is significant because both the Roman and the Orthodox calculations yield the same date, and there is a strong push on to reconcile (re-council?) the matter for the future. Dirk |
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