What I would like, in my most humble opinion, is not a common fixed dated for Easter, but a common way to discern the movable date of Easter. I can take the Western Way or the Eastern Way. I like a movable date for Easter because it keeps us guessing.
But apart from that, if the Roman Catholic Church in union with Eastern Orthodoxy chooses a common date for Easter, how many Protestant sects would follow suit????
I suspect the more liberal and clearly dying mainline Protestant denominations will go along.
But will Southern Baptists?
Will other fundamentalist Christians follow what the pope has initiated? Many fundamentalist Protestants believe that the pope, any pope, is the anti-Christ and the Catholic Church is the whore of Babylon. They won’t go with popish ideas or mandates.
Those of us who are Catholic in the south where the Catholic Church is a small minority, would be celebrating Easter at a different time than the vast majority of Protestants.
Let’s just leave things as they are and not complicate it further! The path to hell is paved with good intentions.
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If we haven't learned to leave well enough alone with the liturgy for five seconds since the 1960s, what are we even doing?
Nick
I'm fairly certain the present suggestion is for the Roman Catholics to begin celebrating Easter along with the Orthodox according to the Orthodox method of calculation. The Orthodox will not change to the Roman Catholic method.
I'm at work and spend much time here.
Do we really care what protestant sects think and do?
My own feeling, Catholics and Orthodox will remain guests in this country culturally.
As a Byzantine Ruthenian, I would greatly favors adopting the model many in Orthodoxy follow, Gregorian Christmas and Juluan Easter Pascha. It would serve to, in part, restore our patrimony/tradition lost on/about 1969 in the U.S.
Surely this is an issue for synodal decision making ? That should keep the whole discussion going for a few years - Francis isn't a dictator you know !
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