VASSULA WAS RIGHT!! http://www.zenit.org/en/articles/coptic-orthodox-pope-asks-pope-francis-to-unify-date-for-easter Coptic Orthodox Pope Asks Pope Francis to Unify Date For Easter In an effort to set a single date for all Christian Churches to celebrate... ZENIT.ORG
Readers who are not averse to Vassula may like to view what she said just yesterday in Australia where she has begun a series of witnessing meetings. She speaks about her meeting with Pope Francis not long before he became Pope when she told him of the need to unify the dates of Easter. The video is here: Vassula speaks about her meeting with Cardinal Bergoglio at approx. 1 hour 14 minutes into the video.
Thank you David! I will listen to it today. Jesus DID say he wanted unity. Some think they know better than the Pope about these things and know what the criteria should be to enter into the Church. Seems to me the only criteria is being a sinner! Which is why ALL MANKIND is called.
Our Lady of Soufanieh is almost completely about Christian unity. Catholic wife, Orthodox husband, wonderful messages and miracles from Damascus stretching back over almost 32 years now.
Indy, Because of Myrna's experiences of Our Lord and Our Lady in Damascus, I too have prayed for this very unity of Easter dates. To hear that Pope Francis is open to this possibility moves me deeply. Our Lady of Soufanieh promised that such an agreement would be the catalyst that would lead to unity. Such an act of humility on Pope Francis' part would be powerful indeed! Safe in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary!
Yes, I am certainly hoping for great things to happen in the Holy Land in a couple of weeks. There is a website devoted to the Pope's visit at: http://popefrancisholyland2014.lpj.org
I was rather disappointed that there seemed to be no mention of anything about a unification of the dates of Easter coming out from the Pope's meeting with Patriarch Bartholomew in Jerusalem. But I've just found the following items. The first is from The Times: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/faith/article4101490.ece Even the Pope thinks Easter dates are too confusing Article James BoneRome Published at 12:01AM, May 28 2014 The Pope may change the date of Easter so that Catholics and Orthodox Christians can celebrate Christ’s resurrection on the same day. The head of the 1.2 billion-strong Catholic church raised the vexed topic in his historic meeting in Jerusalem on Sunday with the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the spiritual leader of 300 million Orthodox Christians. (rest of article for subscribers only) _______________ There is another reference at: http://workingwithgod.com/?p=651 Even The Pope Thinks Easter Dates Are Too Confusing Posted onMay 28, 2014byjcross845 James Bone Rome Published at 12:01AM, May 28 2014 The Pope may change the date of Easter so that Catholics and Orthodox Christians can celebrate Christ’s resurrection on the same day. The head of the 1.2 billion-strong Catholic church raised the vexed topic in his historic meeting in Jerusalem on Sunday with the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the spiritual leader of 300 million Orthodox Christians. On his flight back to Rome, Francis said that the two had discussed whether “something can by done” about the date for Easter. “It is a bit ridiculous: ‘Tell me, when does your Christ rise from the dead?’ ‘Mine will next week.’ ‘Well, mine was resurrected last week’,” Francis observed. Easter is the holiest festival in Christianity. The fact that it falls on different dates in the Catholic and Orthodox churches is a hugely symbolic obstacle to Christian unity. The Council of Nicaea, called by the Christian emperor Constantine in AD325 in what is now northwestern Turkey, established the date of Easter as the first Sunday after the full moon following the vernal equinox. At the time, the Roman world used the imperfect Julian calendar introduced by Julius Caesar in 46BC. By the 16th century, the Julian calendar was ten days out of sync with the equinox. The problem began in 1582 when Pope Gregory XIII instituted a new calendar for the Catholic church, which was adopted by Britain and its American colonies in 1752. The Eastern Orthodox churches, however, continued to follow the Julian calendar, which is now 13 days out of sync. As a result, Orthodox and Catholic Easter can fall on the same day, as they did this year — or as much as five weeks apart, as last year. Agreeing a single date would be a boon for Christians in the Middle East, where Catholics and Orthodox often live side by side. The Pope noted that even in Rome many Orthodox worshippers used Catholic churches. In 1997, a meeting of the World Council of Churches at Aleppo, in Syria, discussed a proposal to use the Nicaean formula with the date based on astronomical observation of the moon. Paul Meyendorff, professor of liturgical theology at the St Vladimir’s Orthodox seminary in New York, said that the advantage of the Aleppo proposal was that it was based on neither calendar. “In most years, the Gregorian calendar is correct, although there are a few years where it is a week off,” he said. With the Russian and other Slavic Orthodox churches still firmly opposed to changing the date of their Easter, he said, the chances of agreement at this stage were “nil”.
and I have just found a video of the moment on the plane home when Pope Francis mentioned this matter:
These are the current dates for Easter for Catholic and Orthodox. Calendar for:201420152016 Holy PaschaApril 20April 12May 1 Western EasterApril 20April 5 March 27 Interesting how far the dates are in 2016. God Bless!
