Today is Good Friday on the Julian Calendar.
So happy Easter and Good Friday to those in the Eastern and Syriac Orthodox Church...
Orthodox Good Friday is celebrated Friday before Easter according to the Julian calendar and falls on April 30 this year. While many Western churches follow the Gregorian calendar while celebrating events, Orthodox Churches retained the Julian calendar. Thus, they observe Good Friday and celebrate Easter at a much later date than the Western churches. This day is also known as Great Friday, Holy Friday, and Holy and Great Friday.
Source: https://nationaltoday.com/orthodox-good-friday/
Here is some beautiful music on this very Holy Day ...
We’re you there when they crucified my Lord ???? Performed by Willie Nelson
And Happy Birthday Willie ( turned 88 yesterday)
Source: Youtube
So which Easter is the correct one ? I’m not sure it really matters but until 1582 the Church used the Julian Calendar.
The origins of the Easter (Pesach) story, the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus the Nazarene. (Yeshu ha Notzri) take place in the Middle East and the earliest records were written in Hebrew and Aramaic and Coptic. Later translated to Greek, Latin, English etc....
It’s only when reading these stories in the original Aramaic (Syriac) that it makes any sense.
So many of the words and phrases recorded in the New Testament are still in Aramaic ...
Golgotha, meaning “Skull” (Luke 23:33)
Ephphatha meaning “Be opened.” (Mark 7:34)
Abba meaning “Father” (Mark 14:36)
Raca meaning “fool” (Matthew 5:22)
Rabbouni meaning “teacher” (John 20:16)
Eli Eli lema sabachthani meaning “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” (Matthew 27:46)
Hosanna meaning “O Lord, save us.” (Mark 11:9)
Maranatha meaning “Lord, come!” (1 Corinthians 16:22)
I have been studying the Aramaic and Hebrew languages and Alephbet for years and I will write a few posts about the importance of these very ancient and Mystical Aramaic words if anyone on ProofofBrain is interested ... let me know in the comments below.
Notes on the Orthodox Easter
Between AD326 and AD1582, Christianity determined Easter using an algorithm approved by the first Ecumenical Council in AD325, with the equinox defined as March 21.
The Julian calendar applies to the original calculation method from 326 AD, which was the first year a unified Easter Dating method was used. The Julian calendar had fallen out of alignment in measuring solar years (keeping months aligned with seasons) well before the Gregorian calendar was introduced. Nevertheless, the Julian calendar is still used today by Orthodox churches as the basis for their Easter.
The Julian Calendar was used by the European (and Christian) communities until the Gregorian calendar became out in 1582.
The Gregorian calendar was first introduced in October 1582 in Italy, and has subsequently replaced the Julian calendar over following years in other European countries.
Since AD 1582 October (when the Gregorian Calendar was adopted by most of Catholic Europe), the Orthodox Easter usually falls on dates different than the Western Christian Easter, although apparently the Churches are discussing using the same formula to determine Easter - probably a formula different than that currently used by either Church.
The Orthodox Easter is determined in the Julian Calendar. It has been claimed that Orthodox Easter does not fall on the date of Passover (15 Nisan in the Hebrew Calendar), or before it; this is true recently, but using the modern formulae for determining the date of Passover (rules which go back to the fourth century A.D.), one finds that, in fact, Easter occurred on the first day of Passover several times before the year A.D. 1000.
The great fast of our Lord precedes the feast of Resurrection commencing on the Monday seven weeks prior. The three day fast of the Ninevites ܨܘܡܐ ܕܢܝܢܘܐ (sawmo d-ninwoyé) begins on the Monday three weeks prior to the commencement of the Great Lent.
Source: http://www.soc-wus.org/ourchurch/calendar.html