Re: Which Easter?

[John Schilke <schilkej@ohsu.EDU>]

On Sat, 11 Apr 1998, Padraic Brown wrote:

> Here's a pertinent and timely question considering the season.
> 
> Having just gotten home from the Easter Vigil, It makes me wonder which
> Easter the Kemrese have: the Western (today) or the Eastern (next week I
> think)?  If the Cambrian Rite is supposed to be somewhat oriented towards
> Constantinople, then the later date could be argued; but the fact that the
> Roman church is rather more at hand, the Cambrian could have changed the
> date along with Rome or at some later time.  Any comments?

Yes, from probably the only Orthodox in our group.  First, let me wish 
all of you a blessed and happy Easter.
And yes, our date is next week, the 19th.
I should think that the Cambrian Rite would have retained the original 
formula and date, and I mean not to be chauvinistic at all.  The problem 
in the British [forgive the term!] Isles was that there was no commonly 
accepted date (through all of Christendom) and the impact of Rome was to 
settle things in its favor.  There is abundant evidence of connection 
between [at least] North Africa and the Celtic churches, and the method 
of dating would have been either entirely local or Byzantine by the time 
of the Schism.
The exact history is somewhat involved, but it seems to me that a better 
argument exists for the Eastern date, given the [?-]historical foundation 
of the Kemrese.
Again, the best of wishes.
John