Wednesday, April 04, 2012

Holy Land: Some Roman Catholic parishes to adopt Orthodox (Julian) Calendar starting in 2013

The reason is mostly pastoral.  The Orthodox Church is by far the largest in the Holy Land and they are on the old calendar.  And there are quite a few mixed marriages which creates issues around major holidays like Christmas and Easter.  This excludes Bethlehem and Jerusalem where you have a lot of pilgrims on the papal calendar, so we are not talking about all that many parishes.  Still it is an interesting development.

Details here.

2 comments:

  1. Pizzaballa? OK...

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  2. Glad to see this, on the principle that we should be flexible where we can be- and Catholics can be flexible regarding the calendar.

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