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   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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