Monday, January 18, 2016

Not straightforward

So the Archbishop of Canterbury is in talks with the Pope and the Coptic Pope (leader of the Eastern Orthodox Church) about the possibility of fixing a set date for Easter. There's no mention of his talking to the Chief Rabbi though, and as I have said before, I think that might be crucial, because as I see it, the problem is not so much the date of Easter Sunday as Good Friday which is irrevocably connected to the Jewish festival of Passover.  Another aspect is that much of the Church's calendar is based around Easter, and if you're going to change that to a fixed date, presumably you're going to have to do the same for Whitsun, Pentecost, Trinity and so on.

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