C'mon Claud....that's silly. Why would you now want to do that anyway when you have been given Biblical proof it did not happen on Sunday morning?
And as for doing away with Passover, for the 100th time, we *do* celebrate Passover--only this is the Passover of the fulfillment, not the Passover of the promise.
Next spring I want you to tell all the folks in your parish that this year will be a celebration of "Passover" instead of an "Easter service". Please take along your digital camera so all us FReepers can see their reactions.
And I say again, it was *not* all of the early Churches in the East which had Easter on 14 Nisan. It was the bishops of Asia, i.e. Asia Minor--what we would now consider Turkey.
Yeah....these were most of the Churches that were directly influenced by the disciples of the last living Apostle, John. Do you think he might have known something about the correct date....and celebration?
And you still haven't answered why, when John's disciples dealt with the Easter Sunday people, they agreed to disagree *without condemning the practice.
I certainly did.....post #108.....paragraph 2.
You are lording more authority over Christendom than St. John's disciples did--
I have no authority Claud. I'm sorry I come across that way to you.
Uhh, keep in mind that we use Latin. "Pascha" is what the feast is officially called IN LATIN. We don't even hear your hated word "Easter" except in the homily if the priest even chooses to use it. What do we hear instead in the liturgy? Pascha/Victimae Pascali laudes/cum Pascha nostrum immolatus est Christus/paschalibus mysteriis. Pascha, Pascha, Pascha--which is nothing but the Latin transliteration of Hebrew "Pesach".
And I say again, you think you have a right to condemn what John's own disciples did not condemn--based on your *particular* Biblical interpretation which almost no one in Christianity has shared for 2000 years. Just Diego1618, 2000 years later came along and discovered the truth that all the rest of Christendom stupidly missed. Millions of Christians, all wrong, all apostates, all deluded. Diego1618 and a handful of folks stand in the right--the last beacon of truth.
The sin of pride comes in many guises, my friend, and the temptation to gnosis is a very insidious one in Christianity.