Recent content by Mockingbird0

He should announce that he will maintain communion with Orthodox provinces that, like Finland, adopt the Gregorian calendar.

The practice that was deprecated at Nicea was used in Syria, not in Asia Minor. It was the practice of setting Easter to the Sunday falling in the Jewish week of Unleavened Bread, even if that meant that Easter would fall before the Spring equinox. The Council ruled that independent...

The midwinter date for Christmas originates with Christian storytellers of the 2nd century. They told the tale that Zechariah, the father of John the Baptist, was not only a priest, but the high priest, and that his vision of the angel Gabriel (Luke 1.11) was on the Day of Atonement, around the...

Jakob Grimm proposed that there had been a Germanic goddess named "Ostara" but this thesis does not appear anywhere, so far as I know, in Grimm's Fairy Tales. In the Rabbinic Jewish calendar, in three years out of every nineteen, the Feast of Unleavened Bread happens at the second full moon...

March 21 is the ecclesiastical equinox.

The Rabbinic Jewish calendar has a slight solar drift which causes it, in 3 years out of every 19, to set the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the second full moon after the Spring equinox. Meanwhile the Gregorian lunar calendar sets the Paschal Full Moon (the 14th of Christian Nisan) to the first...

Weird.

My parents are Anglo-Catholics. They differ from other Episcopalians only in how the liturgy of their parish church includes the traditional Latin minor propers (at least sometimes translated into English) and (at least in the past) some additional elements of Roman Catholic ceremonial. I have...

I will go with St. Augustine and St. Aidan too, though as others have pointed out there are threads of continuity with the Christianity of Roman Britain, such as devotion to St. Alban.

Is it in the Mishnah?

Amazing.

Was the fast of the firstborn practiced in the first century? I know of no source documenting this.

"The" pagan calendar? There was no single pagan calendar. Every nation had its own. Many of the Roman and Greek gods had fertility aspects but I know of no documented ritual in their honor involving eggs or hares. Can you provide documentation of pagan rituals involving eggs or hares?

She never wrote: "Christ has no body now but yours", though the words are often attributed to her.