Why Is Greek Easter Different?

[sealybobo]

Or why is Orthodox Easter held at a different time? Every year I ask and every year I forget. Maybe someone here can explain why so I'll never forget again.

 

[Care4all]

I ask the same question every single year, and also get the answer, and then don't remember it.....I have aging as an excuse, but what is yours?

 

[JakeStarkey]

It's very simple.

The widgets of the East don't believe in chocolate Easter bunnies.

Infidels.

 

[Igrok_]

maybe because of the different method of its calculating? Calendar or something like this. Who bothers, though

 

[Kosh]

Easter and the holidays that are related to it are moveable feasts, in that they do not fall on a fixed date in the Gregorian or Julian calendars (both of which follow the cycle of the sun and the seasons). Instead, the date for Easter is determined on a lunisolar calendar similar to the Hebrew calendar. The First Council of Nicaea (325) established two rules, independence of the Jewish calendar and worldwide uniformity, which were the only rules for Easter explicitly laid down by the Council. No details for the computation were specified; these were worked out in practice, a process that took centuries and generated a number of controversies. (See also Computus and Reform of the date of Easter.) In particular, the Council did not decree that Easter must fall on Sunday. This was already the practice almost everywhere.[48]

In Western Christianity, using the Gregorian calendar, Easter always falls on a Sunday between 22 March and 25 April inclusive, within about seven days after the astronomical full moon.[49] The following day, Easter Monday, is a legal holiday in many countries with predominantly Christian traditions.

Eastern Christianity bases its calculations on the Julian Calendar. Because of the 13-day difference between the calendars between 1900 and 2099, 21 March corresponds, during the 21st century, to 3 April in the Gregorian Calendar. Easter therefore varies between 4 April and 8 May on the Gregorian calendar (the Julian calendar is no longer used as the civil calendar of the countries where Eastern Christian traditions predominate). Also, because the Julian "full moon" is always several days after the astronomical full moon, the eastern Easter is often later, relative to the visible moon's phases, than western Easter.

Among the Oriental Orthodox some churches have changed from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar and the date for Easter as for other fixed and moveable feasts is the same as in the Western church.

Easter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Stratford57]

Or why is Orthodox Easter held at a different time? Every year I ask and every year I forget. Maybe someone here can explain why so I'll never forget again.

I ask the same question every single year, and also get the answer, and then don't remember it.....I have aging as an excuse, but what is yours?

As far as I know [Russian] Orthodox Easter is always the first Sunday after the full moon between April 4th and May 5th. This year it will be May 1st.

And [Russian] Orthodox Christmas is always on January 7th, 13 days behind Catholic Christmas and according to Julian Calendar. I believe Orthodox Greeks celebrate it with Catholics according to Gregorian calendar.

 

[HaShev]

It's different because the Easter Basket comes with A bottle of Windex and a box of Filo dough. And I don't even want to get into what they do with the bunny tail.

 

[sealybobo]

It's very simple.

The widgets of the East don't believe in chocolate Easter bunnies.

Infidels.

Us Greeks always assumed it was so we could get cheaper chocolates and Easter baskets after real Easter.

 

[Moonglow]

Or why is Orthodox Easter held at a different time? Every year I ask and every year I forget. Maybe someone here can explain why so I'll never forget again.

There is a time zone difference..

 

[sealybobo]

Or why is Orthodox Easter held at a different time? Every year I ask and every year I forget. Maybe someone here can explain why so I'll never forget again.

I ask the same question every single year, and also get the answer, and then don't remember it.....I have aging as an excuse, but what is yours?

As far as I know [Russian] Orthodox Easter is always the first Sunday after the full moon between April 4th and May 5th. This year it will be May 1st.

And [Russian] Orthodox Christmas is always on January 7th, 13 days behind Catholic Christmas and according to Julian Calendar. I believe Orthodox Greeks celebrate it with Catholics according to Gregorian calendar.

Yes our Xmas is always with everyone else. We would love it if our Xmas was after Xmas. Big discounts Dec 27,28,29,etc

 

[boedicca]

Easy Peasy.

Jesus doesn't have enough time to lay eggs for all of Easter around the world, so he does the West in one batch, and the East in another.

 

[sealybobo]

Easter and the holidays that are related to it are moveable feasts, in that they do not fall on a fixed date in the Gregorian or Julian calendars (both of which follow the cycle of the sun and the seasons). Instead, the date for Easter is determined on a lunisolar calendar similar to the Hebrew calendar. The First Council of Nicaea (325) established two rules, independence of the Jewish calendar and worldwide uniformity, which were the only rules for Easter explicitly laid down by the Council. No details for the computation were specified; these were worked out in practice, a process that took centuries and generated a number of controversies. (See also Computus and Reform of the date of Easter.) In particular, the Council did not decree that Easter must fall on Sunday. This was already the practice almost everywhere.[48]

In Western Christianity, using the Gregorian calendar, Easter always falls on a Sunday between 22 March and 25 April inclusive, within about seven days after the astronomical full moon.[49] The following day, Easter Monday, is a legal holiday in many countries with predominantly Christian traditions.

Eastern Christianity bases its calculations on the Julian Calendar. Because of the 13-day difference between the calendars between 1900 and 2099, 21 March corresponds, during the 21st century, to 3 April in the Gregorian Calendar. Easter therefore varies between 4 April and 8 May on the Gregorian calendar (the Julian calendar is no longer used as the civil calendar of the countries where Eastern Christian traditions predominate). Also, because the Julian "full moon" is always several days after the astronomical full moon, the eastern Easter is often later, relative to the visible moon's phases, than western Easter.

Among the Oriental Orthodox some churches have changed from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar and the date for Easter as for other fixed and moveable feasts is the same as in the Western church.

Easter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

See why I keep forgetting? So confusing. Basically ours is based on the first full moon of spring and everyone else's is a set date.

Last year our Easter fell on the same date BTW.

Another reason we do it later, jokingly, is better weather to cook a lamb outside.

 

[sealybobo]

I ask the same question every single year, and also get the answer, and then don't remember it.....I have aging as an excuse, but what is yours?

Weed

 

[Care4all]

I ask the same question every single year, and also get the answer, and then don't remember it.....I have aging as an excuse, but what is yours?

Weed

well, ok, then that's understandable!

 

[sealybobo]

Easy Peasy.

Jesus doesn't have enough time to lay eggs for all of Easter around the world, so he does the West in one batch, and the East in another.

Are you setting us up for a Jesus vs Santa Claus movie? Who would win?

 

[zaangalewa]

Or why is Orthodox Easter held at a different time? Every year I ask and every year I forget. Maybe someone here can explain why so I'll never forget again.

The orthodox church uses still the calendar since the reform of Julius Cesars - nearly the complete other rest of the christian worlds uses the gregorian calendar of the year 1582. That's why the date is different.

 

[sealybobo]

Or why is Orthodox Easter held at a different time? Every year I ask and every year I forget. Maybe someone here can explain why so I'll never forget again.

The orthodox church uses still the calendar since the reform of Julius Cesars - nearly the complete other rest of the christian worlds uses the gregorian calendar of the year 1582. That's why the date is different.

Tomorrow is Greek Easter. We're cooking a lamb outside of course. I didn't go to church this year. Hard to go when you know it's all a sham.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Enjoy the lamb.

 

[HUGGY]

Why Is Greek Easter Different?

Because it means I have to show up at my girlfriends house tomorrow and eat some Greek food.. Nuff said.

 

[sealybobo]

Why Is Greek Easter Different?

Because it means I have to show up at my girlfriends house tomorrow and eat some Greek food.. Nuff said.

Oh no an a xeno