[Kolokotronis]

“”if the Church of Rome intends to abandon Easter according to the Gregorian calendar, introduced in the sixteenth century, and go back to the old one (Julian), used at a time when the Church of the East and West were united and used to date by the Orthodox, then this intention is welcome”. If, instead, the idea is to “have a fixed date for Easter and not tie it to the first full moon after the spring equinox, as established in the East and in the West by the Council of Nicaea in 325, then this proposal is totally unacceptable to the Orthodox Church”

The Greeks will concur as will, I expect, the Arabs and the Ethiopians.

[ronnietherocket3]

“”if the Church of Rome intends to abandon Easter according to the Gregorian calendar, introduced in the sixteenth century, and go back to the old one (Julian), used at a time when the Church of the East and West were united and used to date by the Orthodox, then this intention is welcome”. If, instead, the idea is to “have a fixed date for Easter and not tie it to the first full moon after the spring equinox, as established in the East and in the West by the Council of Nicaea in 325, then this proposal is totally unacceptable to the Orthodox Church”

The latter is totally unacceptable to me as well. I don't see why we should change a 3.5 millenium* old feast to accommodate the secular world. The only change that I think is acceptable is computing the date w.r.t to Holy Saturday rather than Easter Sunday as Holy Saturday was the first day of the Crucifixion Passover.

*I am counting from the first Passover as it is the predecessor feast