Easter

[Mos]

When is Armenian Easter this year?

[freakyfreaky]

Re: Easter

Per the Mother See, March 23rd.

http://www.armenianchurch.org/

March 2008

1 Twenty Seventh Day of Great Lent, Forty Holy Martyrs of Sebastia
2 Fifth Sunday of Great Lent, Sunday of the Judge
3 Twenty Ninth Day of Great Lent
4 Thirtieth Day of Great Lent
5 Thirty First Day of Great Lent
6 Thirty Second Day of Great Lent
7 Thirty Third Day of Great Lent
8 Thirty Fourth Day of Great Lent, St. Gregory the Illuminator - Commitment to the Pit
9 Sixth Sunday of Great Lent, Sunday of the Advent
10 Thirty Sixth Day of Great Lent
11 Thirty Seventh Day of Great Lent
12 Thirty Eighth Day of Great Lent
13 Thirty Ninth Day of Great Lent
14 Fortieth Day of Great Lent:
15 Forty First Day of Great Lent: Remembrance of the Raising of Lazarus
16 Holy Week, Palm Sunday
17 Great Monday
18 Great Tuesday, Remembrance of the Ten Virgins
19 Great Wednesday
20 Holy Thursday, Remembrance of the Last Supper
21 Holy Friday, Commemoration of the Passion, Crucifixion, and Burial of our Lord Jesus Christ
22 Feast of the Annunciation of the Holy Virgin Mary, Holy Saturday: Eve of the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ
23 Easter Sunday, Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ
24 Second Day of Easter, Remembrance of the Dead (Easter)
25 Third Day of Easter
26 Fourth Day of Easter
27 Fifth Day of Easter
28 Sixth Day of Easter
29 Seventh Day of Easter
30 Octave of Easter (New Sunday)
31 Ninth Day of Easter Tide

[Mos]

Re: Easter

since I noticed that Eastern Christian religions (Easter Orthodox etc.) have their easter April 9, and Armenian Orthodox fits into that category , but with the March 23rd Easter it is following the Western Christian calender, which we don't follow usually.

[freakyfreaky]

Re: Easter

Call Etchmiadzin. I used to think like you do but Armenian Orthodox and Eastern Orthodox are separate. E.g., they celebrate Christmas on January 7th and we celebrate it on the 6th.

[Virgil]

Re: Easter

Call Etchmiadzin. I used to think like you do but Armenian Orthodox and Eastern Orthodox are separate. E.g., they celebrate Christmas on January 7th and we celebrate it on the 6th.

Yes, contrary to populat belief (Or, again, Armenian wishful thinking, can you people ever be proud of your own traditions?) the Armenian Apostolic Church split from the Christian mainstream roughly 1,600 years ago and 600 years before the schism that seperated Catholic from Orthodox. To be accurate, Armenians are part of the "Oriental churches" and, no, Oriential has no realitionship with Asia or Asians. Oriental was the shorthand name for everything east of the Roman Empire (Usually, refering to the Middle-East and the Near-East).