…to our Eastern brothers and sisters who observe Easter on the Julian calendar. Holy Week for many Eastern Christians began yesterday, on Palm Sunday, or as it is often called in the East, “Entry of the Lord into Jerusalem.” For those of us who use the Gregorian calendar, we are currently in the fifth week of Easter. I pray that one day East and West might agree on the date of Easter and that we would be one, as our Lord prayed.
David Bennett
Jennifer
asimplesinner
Fr. J.
Chad Toney
Jorge Flores
Jonathan B
carmelbennett
nicenehobbit
Jason S
jaybird68
papaz
April 21, 2008 at 1:21 pm
In the next then years (in 2010, 2011, 2014, & 2017) we will all share the same date…
In all irony, those years are the most tense in parts of the Holy Land where we have shared shrines and everyone is there at the same time for the same events…
April 21, 2008 at 2:25 pm
But in those years, the Lord has (arranged for) an answer to His prayer that we be one.
April 21, 2008 at 10:16 pm
In a sense I suppose…
I belong to a minority party that accepts that just as sharing a date with Protestants doesn’t demonstrate unity, having two different celebrations within the Catholic Church (Greek Catholics in Europe & Latin Catholics in Orthodox majority nations use the same reckoning as the Orthodox) or a future united post-schism church would not be a sign of disunity.
April 22, 2008 at 10:51 am
“Believe me, woman, the hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
You people worship what you do not understand; we worship what we understand, because salvation is from the Jews.
But the hour is coming, and is now here, when true worshipers will worship the Father in Spirit and truth; and indeed the Father seeks such people to worship him.” (John 4:21 - 23)
You’re right. Having the same date for Easter doesn’t mean unity.