[Nextrush]

The Orthodox Christian Easter is here and special services being held tonight like this one in Moscow.

[goldstategop]

The Orthodox Easter Sunday is observed a week later because the Orthodox Church celebrates it according to the Julian Calendar.

Russia switched to the Western Calendar in 1918.

[SamuraiScot]

Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church

As I recall, for some years, Patriarch Kirill has been participating in talks to explore the possibility of reunification with Rome.

Patriarch Kirill seems like a holy, visionary man--and I hope we RCs through our recent leadership have not screwed up this possibility beyond redemption. As St. JPII pointed out, the Church has two "lungs," West and East, and it needs both to properly breathe.

The Russian church has shown a patient, burning faith refined by suffering under Communism. The Roman Catholic Church has suffered from laxity and aimlessness in Western Europe and America due to wealth and distraction. (But it is growing like wildfire on the front lines against Islam in Africa.

[tired&retired]

Between the leader of China making a deal with the Vatican and Putin going to church..... satan is very active.....

[bray]

The Russian leader is more of a Christian than any Dem leader.

[t4texas]

That makes team church “attenders.”

[toothfairy86]

Hristos Voskrese! Voistina Voskrese!

[chuckles]

This is good news that the Orthodox churches celebrate the correct days. First Fruits (Resurrection Day) starts at 6pm on the 8th and ends at 6pm on the 9th. Easter is a pagan day brought into the church by Rome in the 4th century.

Satan is a counterfeiter and a pretender.