A late Jesus is Risen / Hristos Voskrese paschal
greeting and why Orthodox Christians don't celebrate with Roman
Catholics and Jewish
It is the first week after Orthodox Christian Easter. This year
2012, the Orthodox Christians Easter date was on fifteen of
April.
We've not just had a feast of an Eastern, but we actually
celebrated the greatest day in all human history that happened 2012
years ago - The Glories Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ from
the Death in the Third day!
Some Roman Catholic Christians, might be wondering, why the
Orthodox Church is celebrating one week after Jewish Pascha, so in
short I will explain in the reason. We orthodox christians do not
celebrate with Roman Catholics Easter because Roman Catholics use
the gregorian calendar to calculate and decided the day in which
the Eastern celebrations should occur, where we the Orthodox
Christians use still the old moon calendar (which the jews used
too), when Jesus was crucified.
The gregorian calendar is very precise from a scientific point of
view, however from a Church stand point it is completely wrong
because, plainly taking the gregorian calendar math model doesn't
take in consideration, that the jews are still celebrating their
pascha following the old moon calendar.
The consequence is this year Roman Catholics, celebrated with
Jewish. This from our Orthodox Christian point of view is
incorrect, because Christ's Cross suffering is the pascha for us
christians.
We Christians consider that the old God ordained jewish pascha was
a prophecy feast, simply to remind jewish people before Christ's
coming that Messiah (Christ) will come to say his people.
As Jewish rejected their true Messiah and Crucified him on the
Cross, they have rejected to accept Christ as being the true pascha
lamb slained for our sins.
Hence the Orthodox Christian Church teaches even to this day, that
it is not righteous to celebrate Christ's Glorious Resurrection
with Jewish Pascha.
Prohibition to celebrate Easter and Jewish Pascha on the same day
is an Orthodox Church rule, since the early church days.
The Holy Fathers in their Church councils
Council of Nicaea
etc. has established as unchangable Church rule that, Jesus's
Resurrection day feath, should never-ever coincide with the Jewish
Pascha Celebrations.
The reasons the Church fathers ordered the Church Easter day to be
always 1 week after Jewish Pascha is our saviour Jesus Christ ate
pascha with his desciples as we can read in the 4 gospels. After
Jesus ate pascha, he was caught mocked, tortured and crucified
(killed on a cross shaped trees).
In the Orthodox Christian dome, we feasted the greatest day in all
human history and not just a feast - We celebrated The Glories
Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ in the Third day with the
great Paschal greeting!
Jesus is Risen!
Truly, He is Risen!
The Slavonic Paschal Greeting, translated words, we use across the
Slavonic dome: ( Bulgaria / Russia / Ukraine, Serbia) is:
Christos voskrese! Voistinu voskrese!
One week after the Roman Catholics Christians celebrated Pascha, we
- The Orthodox Christian dome feasted the greatest day in all human
history - The Glories Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ in the
Third day!
According to our Church Tradition, Christians should great each
other with the Paschal greeting
Hristos Voskrese during the
whole "bright week" instead of the usual Hi / Hello phrase.
The current Bulgarian version of Христос Воскресе - Войстина
Възкръсна! is Христос Възкръсна - Наистина Възкръсна