With a couple of weeks delay compared to all other Christian nations,
we the Orthodox (read the Greeks and the Serbs) are finally ready to
celebrate Easter. We the Orthodox (read the Greeks and the Serbs) still
operate according to the Julian calendar, and still calculate the timing
of
the full moon or the vernal equinox according to the Julian calendar. You surely remember that in the year 325, the Council of Nicaea
established that the date of Easter would be
the first Sunday after the full moon following the vernal equinox, don't you? The
Council was not in a position to specify which calendar to apply, hence
we the Orthodox (read the Greeks and the Sers), with our outdated
calendar, trail the other Christians by up to five weeks.
