Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for March 21, 2016

LOL.

My work is done here.

selective memoryit’s a gift

And those lodge equally in the memory of the other.

So is that really true? I’ve never had a clue how Easter’’s date was decided. Is the full moon reference in the Bible?

I knew this one. How does the Eastern Orthodox Church determine Easter? Anybody know?

Technically it is the first Sunday after the first full moon after the Vernal Equinox…which varies between March 19 and March 21. This year it was March 20.

Slam Arlo! Put your dirty socks and clothes in the clothes hamper.

I pray at the Church of the Cacao Bean, and an early Easter means less time to buy Easter candy, but sooner post-Easter sales.

The tl;dr explanation:http://www.oremus.org/liturgy/etc/ktf/app/easter.html

The difference is that Easter is on the calendar, whereas putting his socks in the laundry basket isn’t.

He needs to toss out those useless memories and use the space to remember something important.

Hahahaha, rim shot.

(Eastern Orthodox makes more sense since the bible places the resurrection as the first day of the week after Passover, the day remembering the Lord passing over the homes of those with the blood of the lamb on the doorposts and lintels, not killing their firstborn sons.In like manner, we are told Christ is the Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the word for those who believe on him and that those who refuse die in their sins, having rejected the salvation which was freely offered.)

So funny! Neither of them will remember either remark.

everything has it’s place in the scheme of things

Dirty socks should be put in the LAUNDRY hamper, not the clothes hamper.

It’s actually after the spring equinox which isn’t always on the 21st.

Apparently the census was not a common thing so there is a record for when it was and therefore, a record of when Jesus was suppose to have been born which is why they could make everyone go to their home village/town.

The Last Supper was a Passover sedar so there is a record at least as to the time of year it was and using the age of Jesus when he died there is a year.

The Bible was not written immediately after the events, but some 100-300 years later which is why there are discrepancies in the various gospels, as well as other gospels having been removed and not used.

One detail…not after March 21, but after the first day of Spring, the Vernal Equinox. Early Christians did not have calendars, so they lived by the sun and the moon.

There’s also a substantial movement afoot to put Easter on a fixed basis. The Archbishop of Canterbury here in the UK went so far recently as to alert the government to the likelihood of its happening within the next 10 years. Most likely, of course, some churches would go along with that, others would hold out, and the whole thing would become even more confused than it currently is – but that’s people for you.

Im Orthodox. Both the west and the east use an ecclesiastical calendar now. Easter doesnt follow the astronomical full moon but a set of tables. The West follows an eighty-four year cycle while we Orthodox follow a nineteen year cycle.

The Orthodox calendar more closely follows the Jewish one (which of course came first of the three) which is also on a 19 year cycle. Someone I know who is Russian Orthodox explained that their calendar has Easter always coming after the start of Passover where it should be.