...if I tell you it is not actually Easter Sunday today but it is actually Palm Sunday?

[ilikecandyandrunning]

According to the Orthodox religion, today is Palm Sunday. Easter is probably the biggest celebration in the Orthodox calendar and they follow the ancient timelines, which they would argue is right...

The formula for Easter?"The first Sunday after the first full moon on or after the vernal equinox"?is identical for both Western and Orthodox Easters, but the churches base the dates on different calendars: Western churches use the Gregorian calendar, the standard calendar for much of the world, and Orthodox churches use the older, Julian calendar.

Easter this year is actually next week then!

More Easter eggs next Sunday then??

Yes!

Indeed! Another week to go for me...

Wasnt palm sunday last sunday?

As long as you add, 'in Orthodox churches', YANBU.

Sorry cecilyp - 'in orthodox churches'

Where are you from Sparta? My background is Greek orthodox

So today isn't the day that Jesus laid the egg?

We got palms last Sunday?

It should follow the jewish calendar surely as jesus was crucified on a jewish holy day (unlike christmas which is just a bit of a made up day in terms of when it occurs)

Yes you will have done if you are following modern calender if following older calender tis a week behind

Why WYBU?

The faith I practise is one that makes the message and meaning of Easter more important than arguing about the dates and timings...

Althiugh it has always puzzled me how the difference between full moon and vernal equinox is different -some years I think they must fall on the same Sundays

Something to do with western Christians calculating a virtual moon and the others using the real thing.

DH said there were tables in his very old prayer book. He used to read them in dull sermons.

Yippee! more chocolate[bugrin]

Oh god no. I feel so sick already. There is a limit to number of cream eggs a person can eat. Unbelieveable I know, but it's true.

ilikecandyandrunning I'm from Salonika. My DP is my Leonidas, hence my username!

smog :So today isn't the day that Jesus laid the egg?
[bushock]
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My mum is Orthodox. She is celebrating palm Sunday today. So no YANBU!

Hardly any of my English friends even know what palm Sunday is! I was surprised.

only if you are orthodox, for me, c of e, it is easter and got son's palm cross last week.

Nope, it's Easter Sunday for me today.

DH's Easter is next week but that doesn't mean it's 'actually' Palm Sunday this week for everyone .... not even all Orthodox people keep to the Old Calendar any more!