Why don't Orthodox and Catholic churches celebrate Easter on the date Jesus said?

[Anonymous]

Different days for Easter but They should both do: whichever description Jesus said, for the day he wanted Easter celebrated? Why don't they check which?

If he NOT said like orthodox then obey? If he NOT said like Catholic then obey?

[CupcakeTheDestroyer]

I do love to see christians fight about bullshit, especially when they ignore the historical context of the holiday.


Easter has nothing to do with Jesus aside from being a spring/fertility festival adopted for the sole purpose of allowing people of other religions to celebrate like they always have under christian law by making it specifically about Christ. Like seriously, think about it, what do bunnies have to do with Jesus? Nothing. But they’re a well-known symbol of fertility with how much fucking they do in a year.


So catholicism adopts the rituals and the days, the orthodox calls it blasphemy and does it a week later without a lot of those rituals.

[Asker]

You self contradicted yourself! 1 "what do bunnies have to do with Jesus? Nothing" so Easter is about jesus. You mocked yourself into a knot.

[CupcakeTheDestroyer]

My man, you missed the part where I said they adopted the rituals of a fertility celebration for the SOLE purpose of converting people and erasing the religion it came from.

[Horsegirly2001]

Easter is litteraly the commendation of the crucifixion of Christ. Good Friday itself is litteraly the last supper which was a passover meal which occurs in April on the Jewish calendar. Any differences between the Catholic, orthodox and Judaism are down to the different calenders each use. Gregorian calender vs Julian calender vs jewish calender.

[purplepoppy]

It's to do with a meeting that occurred in 7th century Whitby, England. People all agreed Easter was the first Sunday after the full moon after the Spring Equinox. They just couldn't quite agree when the equinox actually was. It sounds dumb but remember in the UK you can go months without actually seeing the moon. The country was also divided, Roman ways still lingered to the west and Germanic ways to the east. And so a meeting was held to bring people together and decide on the same date.

[Asker]

But which one did jesus say?

[purplepoppy]

Jesus was dead so how could he

[Asker]

Fair enough.

[BCRanger10]

The Catholic Church goes by the Gregorian calendar, whereas the Orthodox use the Julian.

[Asker]

Well that is most helpful because obviously jesus must have used Julian therefore everyone should. therefore catholic is wrong day.

[BCRanger10]

What gives you that idea and why?

[Asker]

Because jesus lived when they used Julian.

[BCRanger10]

Do you know why that decision was made though?

[Asker]

You mean pope Gregory. yes the number date was moving away from natural solstice so they changed the numbers.

[Horsegirly2001]

The Orthodox church follow the old Julian calender and the Roman catholic church follow the Gregorian calender we use today.

For instance today is April 14th on the Gregorian calender but on the Julian calender its April first. Thats why the Orthodox celebrate Christmas in January.

The Gregorian calender was brought in around 1582 to fix calender drift.

For instance on the Julian calender the Winter solstice was fixed to December 25th (23rd on Gregorian calender) but by the 1580s after 1500 years of use the Julian Calender had drifted by 10 days which means the winter solstice was then occurring on the 15th of December on the Julian calender. Christmas on the Julian calender occurs today on the 4th of January I believe.

[LadyBecks]

They follow different calendars

[Asker]

Which calendar did jesus say?

[Wodens_Apprentice]

Only English Eostere is legitimate.

[Asker]

Is that the one jesus said?

[Wodens_Apprentice]

It's a month ritual named after the English Goddess of Dawn.