In article <H8ZFj.2000$VK4.187@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, needles says...
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>Yes, and Passover this year will begin April 19th with
>Orthodox Easter on April 27th, the last day I believe it can
>be under that calendar.
I remember a year when it was in May. In fact,
http://www.antiochian.org/1107539827
shows it will be on May 5th in 2013.
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>What I am not quite sure of is why Passover and Orthodox
>Easter are so off this year? Are both of them still
>applying the old Julian calculations?
So close and yet so far! The Jewish Passover, of course, is computed based
on
the Jewish Calendar, which is basically lunar, with some solar
modifications.
The Orthodox always compute the date of Pascha based on the Julian
Calendar. But
we have a different memory of the rule as agreed at Nicea: we remember a
rule
that Pascha must always come after all the days of Passover. Rome does not
remember this rule.
So the root cause of the difference between Rome and the Orthodox on the
date of
Easter is that the Emperor Constantine did not allow us to take minutes at
the
Council of Nicea!
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