Posted on 04/08/2021 7:37:45 PM PDT by marshmallow
Moscow (Agenzia Fides) - The possible introduction of a change of the liturgical calendar to allow all Christians in the world to celebrate Easter on the same day "is not on the agenda of the Orthodox Church, or at least it is not on the agenda of the Russian Orthodox Church", and in any case the Russian Orthodox have "no intention" of changing the traditional system with which the date for the Easter celebration is fixed in their Church. This was stated in a recent television interview by Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations.
The declaration of the authoritative representative of the Moscow Patriarchate has nipped in the bud recent attempts to reopen the debate on an issue that continues to represent a painful emblem of historical lacerations and the lack of full sacramental communion between the Catholic Church and many Eastern Churches. In many areas of the world, starting with the Middle East, the spectacle of the "divided Easters", celebrated on different days by Christians, ends up being a veil to their common confession of the name of Christ. This year, the Easter celebration for the Eastern Churches that follow the so-called Julian Calendar is set for May 2nd.
The last to try to rekindle the hope of seeing sooner or later all Christians celebrate the Lord's resurrection on the same day was the Orthodox Archbishop Job of Telmessos, a member of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, co-President of the International Joint Commission for Theological Dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church. In an editorial published in February 2021 issue of the Bulletin of the Permanent Delegation of the Ecumenical Patriarchate to the Ecumenical Council of Churches (CEC). Archbishop Job recalled the rule established at the Council of Nicaea........
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They could easily all celebrate Easter the same date, simply by moving back to the same date Christians all used for the first 1500 years. That option is still available. It’s the same date the Orthodox still use, the same one declare by the ecumenical councils of the early centuries
But somehow the articles on this subject never mention this possibility...
If the calendar is inaccurate, why insist on it?
Why would we want to go back to a incorrect manmade calendar? The Julian calendar is inaccurate and not of divine creation.
Someone suggests the Orthodox Church make this major change. And Hilarion ensues.
Seems to me Easter is when Jewish Passover is.
No matter the calendar.
Why does it even matter that all Christians pick the same day?
Easter occurs around Passover. Both Christian sides could have their Easter coincide near to Passover, and that way both Christian and Jew could commemorate.
No, “petty” is insisting that they do it all the same way other Christian religions do.
People would do a little better to worry more about the meaning of Easter.
It only took 332 years and a Revolution for Russia to adopt the Gregorian Calendar. I’m sure they will adapt to the change....eventually.
Some Orthodox Churches use the Julian calendar all the time, while others have adopted the Gregorian calendar — except for Lent/Easter. All Orthodox use what has been called modified Julian calendar then. It’s a hot issue among some Orthodox and most would hold that there should be no possibility of changing it without an Ecumenical Council. One major reason some Orthodox have a problem with the Gregorian calendar is that it was imposed on the Western church by Pope Gregory, unilaterally and without a council.
“Seems to me Easter is when Jewish Passover is. No matter the calendar.”
Types and shadows. I don’t celebrate much, merchants holiday and all that.
Jesus died during passover. Why doesn’t this passover cycle include the Resurrection? I have pondered that as well.
Well they also still solemnize observing The Epiphany which Catholic’s have changed to a Sunday and is no longer identified as the 12th day of Christmas by the Catholics since the 2nd Vat council.
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