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Show AG The Salt Lake Tribune NATION/WORLD Sunday,April 15, 2001 Orthodox Church Shares Easter With Other Christians This Year BYJULIA LIEBLICH KNIGHT RIDDER NEWS EasterinUtah «iB, 2 SERVICE main concern of the Council of Nicea, the first ecumenical CHICAGO — Because their Easter celebrations usually fall council, according to Rev. Thomas Fitzgerald, professor of church history at Holy Cross on different days, it’s been easy for Jennifer Coyne, a Lutheran, to join her Greek Orthodox husband, AndrewBezaitis, for a midnightEaster service dur- Greek Orthodox School of Theology in Brookline, Mass. Prior to that, churches in dif- ing which they would wait ina dark churchfor the bishop to ferent regions celebrated Easter on different days. But at Nicea, arrive with a candle, his Greek in modern-day Turkey, leaders chants proclaiming the Resur- agreed that Easter would fall on the Sunday following the first full: moon after the spring rection. Bezaitis, in turn, would go to his wife’s Lutheran church on Easter morning to sing joyous hymns alongside equinox. So far so good for the period ladies in bonnets. 325 to 1582, when all Christendom followed the Julian calen- That was until this year when, for the first time since 1990, both Eastern and Western Christians celebrate Easter on the same Sunday. leaders are attemptinga loftier 0 bring together all of istendom by observing a commonEaster each year. A joint celebration, they argue, would bear strong witness to jected the Gregorian calendar the Resurrection as an event of endar,similar to the Gregorian, and stuck with the Julian. In the 1920s, most Orthodox churches adopted a revised calfor fixed-date observances such as Christmas. But the calculation for Easter remained linked to the Julian calendar. unity andreconciliation. The World Council of Churches called this Easter “a preciousgift at the start ofanew millennium” and Pope John Paul II said it “should encourage us to reach an agreement on a Last year, the two Easters were seven days apart. This year, they are on the same Sunday. commondateforthis feast.” But critics warn such unity could lead to an erosion of identity, not to mention a has- Recentefforts to find a more consistent concurrence beganin the 1970s, when the World Council of Churchessaid a common date “would removean ob- sle forinterfaith couples. Staunch Orthodox opponents in Europe show just how powerful a symbol a calendar less accurate in dating the equinox. The Aleppo authors recog- nized thatfor some Orthodox the fight. andthefirst full moon. But the Orthodox Church, which split from the church of Romein the 11th century, re- blendtraditions, some church Under the proposal, the Orthodox date would change most, because the Julian calendaris calendar is a powerful symbol of identity and independence from the West — and something that lations to predict more accurately the date of the equinox As interfaith families try to Gregorian or Julian calendar to determinethe full moon of the vernal Equinox, but on astronomical data measured at the meridian ofJerusalem. calendar, which used more sophisticated astronomical calcu- Theh in 1582, Pope Gregory CoyneandBezaitis families are scrambling to coordinate ser- the formula established at Nicea — with a modern twist. Thecalculations would notrely on the XIII introduced the Gregorian dar, Fitzgerald said. Now the wpirst‘the group determined that there were no theological differences preventing one calendar. Then they offered a new proposition: The date would use couldn't be altered without a Still, the World Council of Churches is planning another meeting and Fitzgerald believes the ongoing talks are a hopeful sign. Lefteris Pltarakis/The Associated Press A Greek Orthodox nunholds candleslit with Holy Fire as crowds of Orthodox Christian pilgrims pass theflameto each other Saturdayin Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulcher. sgh TAPLES Our assortmegn!t aT Pc keeps growin stacle that obscures the unity of Christians.”In 1975, the Roman can be whenthey warn thataltering the dates could cause a schism. change would affect Catholic Church proposed unsuccessfully to Orthodox leaders that Easteralways be celebrated on the Sunday following the second SaturdayofApril. manymillions of people. In the United States alone, there are approximately 86 million Protestants, 61 million Roman Catholics and6 million Orthodox. 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