Hi, Ardith Hinton! -> Alexander Koryagin
I read your message from 18.03.2022 01:47

 AH>> Question: I notice that the Orthodox Palm Sunday occurs a week
 AH>> later than ours, and the Orthodox Pascha occurs a week later than
 AH>> our Easter. How do Orthodox churches calculate such dates &
 AH>> does "Pascha" +/- = "Easter"? I'm aware of phrases such
 AH>> as "paschal lamb" but can't quite connect the dots.


 ak>> The problem is in... mathematics and stubbornness.

 AH> Nicely put! Yes, we all have traditional ways of doing things which
 AH> make perfect sense to us although they may not to others. I'm very

Most interesting is the fact that the correctness of the Passover calculations can easily be checked just by looking at the Moon. It should be a full Moon during the Passover. ;) If it is not -- the formula is not correct.

 AH> interested in how Russians think because folks like you keep
 AH> returning to this echo.

Yes, I remember how on the 7th of March 2007 I put here my first message, and it makes me feel nostalgia here. ;-)

 ak>> Catholics, Orthodox Christians, Jews have different mathematics
 ak>> formulas for calculating the passover day.

 AH> Uh-huh. Having been brought up as a Protestant, I can tell you that
 AH> Easter occurs on the first Sunday after the first full moon after
 AH> the Equinox. If you say it quickly & it's what you're used to &
 AH> everyone else you know uses the same calendar it's not that
 AH> difficult. But if Orthodox Christians use the Julian calendar &
 AH> Jewish people use a lunar calendar I'm interested in how the
 AH> systems fit together. It does seem that Easter occurs shortly after
 AH> Passover.

The Jewish people calculate the Passover by its own formula and it is quiet good in its accuracy.

 AH> I'm the sort of person who wants to know why... so when we visited
 AH> a Russian Orthodox church in Alaska & were given a very nice
 AH> explanation WRT why they do things the way they do, I understood
 AH> completely. Some folks responded to what various popes were doing
 AH> by going back to the old way of doing things, while others
 AH> suggested ways of making improvements to the current system.

As for me I don't understand why some festivals are celebrated by the civil calendar and some are trying to follow the ancient dead moon calendar. Although, well, I believe that the full Moon really causes a big impact on a human. ;-)

Bye, Ardith!
Alexander Koryagin
english_tutor 2022

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