On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 09:13:36AM -0400, Isidora Zamora wrote:
> >The real issue was the matter of Easter. It's symbolically important
> >that Easter remain a spring festival and not drift slowly into winter:
> >Pope Gregory's reform was an attempt to correct an alarming trend,
> >not surgery for an immediate and overwhelming problem.
>
> Except that in the 21st century, it's still not a problem.
Since the difference only amounts to 3 days every 400 years, that's
not really all that surprising. :)
> I believe that the Gregorian reforms also made some slight changes
> to the methods used to reckon the date of Easter.
Slight? Ha! Overcomplicating something that was needlessly complex
to begin with. I have no idea why both churches don't just abandon
the whole calculation business and just celebrate Easter on the first
Sunday after the first ACTUAL full moon after the ACTUAL spring equinox.
-Mark