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That’s irrelevant, given the very small numbers of Old Calendarists, and also given their main issue is not the calendar at all but ecumenisk; what is relevant is that all the Orthodox Churches in Jerusalem, Eastern and Oriental, use the Old Calendar, and at least in most years the present arrangement does reduce overcrowding on the Via Dolorosa and in the Holy Sepulchre and other Hagiopolitan pilgrimage sites.I wish there could be such a Council but hold out little hope that it could happen. Would the Old Calendrists come to such a council?
I personally prefer the Julian Calendar, find the Gregorian Calendar a frustrating accomplished fact, and have a liturgical objection to the Revised Julian Calendar, wherein the fixed feasts are set using the Gregorian Calendar but the Pascha is set using the Nicene Paschalion or computus, and is thus aligned to the Julian Calendar, which has the effect of causing in some years the Apostles Fast to end before it begins by reducing the number of Sundays between All Saints Day (the first Sunday after Pentecost on the Byzantine Calendar) and the Feast of the Apostles to a negative number, while causing a huge increase in the number of Sundays between Theophany and Forgiveness Sunday, or to use Western terminology, Epiphany and Quinquagesima.
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