Orthodoxy and Heterodox Easter

[Justin-H.S.]

When I first became Orthodox I thought I'd have trouble getting over heterodox Easter, but truth be told I didn't even realize it was their Palm Sunday yesterday. It seems I've just about thoroughly gotten over heterodox Easter as it is not even on my radar anymore. Took about 3 years from becoming Orthodox to get to this point.

Anyone else feel the same way?
How long did it take for you to become aloof towards heterodox Easter?

 

[All4Christ]

When I first became Orthodox I thought I'd have trouble getting over heterodox Easter, but truth be told I didn't even realize it was their Palm Sunday yesterday. It seems I've just about thoroughly gotten over heterodox Easter as it is not even on my radar anymore. Took about 3 years from becoming Orthodox to get to this point.

Anyone else feel the same way?
How long did it take for you to become aloof towards heterodox Easter?

I have family that celebrates Western Easter. (Fun fact - did you know that Orthodox in Finland celebrate according to the Gregorian calendar for Pascha due to law?). I won’t forget about it when we have family who celebrates it on that date. I don’t think I’ll ever be aloof about it either honestly. That doesn’t mean I want to change to celebrate it then or that I’m upset we celebrate it according to the Julian calendar, but I still won’t be “aloof”. I was Chrismated in 2008 and I still remember and appreciate the celebrations of Pentecost, Christmas and Easter.

 

[SamanthaAnastasia]

When I first became Orthodox I thought I'd have trouble getting over heterodox Easter, but truth be told I didn't even realize it was their Palm Sunday yesterday. It seems I've just about thoroughly gotten over heterodox Easter as it is not even on my radar anymore. Took about 3 years from becoming Orthodox to get to this point.

Anyone else feel the same way?
How long did it take for you to become aloof towards heterodox Easter?

I call theirs Easter and ours Pascha.
It helps keep it separate.
But I don’t say I’m aloof. I just know that they probably don’t know or understand that they are celebrating it incorrectly.

 

[ArmyMatt]

When I first became Orthodox I thought I'd have trouble getting over heterodox Easter, but truth be told I didn't even realize it was their Palm Sunday yesterday. It seems I've just about thoroughly gotten over heterodox Easter as it is not even on my radar anymore. Took about 3 years from becoming Orthodox to get to this point.

Anyone else feel the same way?
How long did it take for you to become aloof towards heterodox Easter?

honestly it was my first, since Holy Week and Pascha is that awesome.

 

[Justin-H.S.]

I have family that celebrates Western Easter. (Fun fact - did you know that Orthodox in Finland celebrate according to the Gregorian calendar for Pascha due to law?). I won’t forget about it when we have family who celebrates it on that date. I don’t think I’ll ever be aloof about it either honestly. That doesn’t mean I want to change to celebrate it then or that I’m upset we celebrate it according to the Julian calendar, but I still won’t be “aloof”. I was Chrismated in 2008 and I still remember and appreciate the celebrations of Pentecost, Christmas and Easter.

I also have family who celebrate it on the Gregorian date, but for whatever reason we didn't do our family Easter get together this year, so that may have contributed to my aloofness . My experience of heterodox Easter was kind of blazay because I came from a non-denominational background, and they didn't really do anything extraordinary for Easter. It wasn't this big thing. I mean, we received our annual "communion," had an Easter egg hunt for the kids, and emphasized what Christ did on the cross, and that was about it. I guess in comparison, we go all out as far as preparation, and the culmination of Pascha that I feel aloof towards what I came from, if you know what I mean.

I guess you could say my experience of Pascha overshadows my experiences of Easter, that I feel indifferent towards Easter. Not out of hate or dislike towards the heterodox. I just don't feel anything towards Easter.

 

[All4Christ]

I also have family who celebrate it on the Gregorian date, but for whatever reason we didn't do our family Easter get together this year, so that may have contributed to my aloofness . My experience of heterodox Easter was kind of blazay because I came from a non-denominational background, and they didn't really do anything extraordinary for Easter. It wasn't this big thing. I mean, we received our annual "communion," had an Easter egg hunt for the kids, and emphasized what Christ did on the cross, and that was about it. I guess in comparison, we go all out as far as preparation, and the culmination of Pascha that I feel aloof towards what I came from, if you know what I mean.

I guess you could say my experience of Pascha overshadows my experiences of Easter, that I feel indifferent towards Easter. Not out of hate or dislike towards the heterodox. I just don't feel anything towards Easter.

Pascha definitely is an entirely different level from anything I ever experienced. I started attending an Orthodox Church at the beginning of Lent. After Pascha, I knew that was where I would always be. (I also differentiate it in my mind as Easter vs Pascha.)

 

[Justin-H.S.]

I call theirs Easter and ours Pascha.
It helps keep it separate.
But I don’t say I’m aloof. I just know that they probably don’t know or understand that they are celebrating it incorrectly.

Thanks for your comment. I'd say it's more...incomplete instead of incorrect. Like, the further away you get from Orthodoxy the more incomplete things become, and not just Christianity, but life in general.

 

[Lukaris]

The way much of western Christianity is going, I just pray that they at least continue to worship the same risen Lord we have at least both traditionally known.

 

[ArmyMatt]

The way much of western Christianity is going, I just pray that they at least continue to worship the same risen Lord we have at least both traditionally known.

I hear that.

 

[Andrei D]

When I first became Orthodox I thought I'd have trouble getting over heterodox Easter, but truth be told I didn't even realize it was their Palm Sunday yesterday. It seems I've just about thoroughly gotten over heterodox Easter as it is not even on my radar anymore. Took about 3 years from becoming Orthodox to get to this point.

Anyone else feel the same way?
How long did it take for you to become aloof towards heterodox Easter?

It's the other way around for me. When I first became a Westerner, I was put off by the vacuous marketing campaigns that are Easter, Christmas and Valentine's Day.

Then, going back to my native lands to visit, I realized these same ones are becoming the dominant cultural aspect of "holy days" in the Orthodox spaces currently gladly enslaved to the globalist hegemony.

 

[Andrei D]

Forgive my bitterness. It hides great respect for you, Orthodox outside "Orthodoxia".

 

[Halbhh]

The way much of western Christianity is going, I just pray that they at least continue to worship the same risen Lord we have at least both traditionally known.

Well, I'm glad to reassure then, that just as the worst in any group isn't a good example of the broader grouping, this is also true of the 'West' just as much as for the 'East'.

 

[Chesterton]

I also have heterodox relatives who invite me to lunch/dinner on Western Easter. That's really all I think of it.

I buy a wall calendar each year and it always denotes the day of Easter. I think of it when I see that. I once bought a calendar that had Easter and also the day of "Orthodox Easter" as it put it. That was nice. I'll take a little recognition wherever we can get it.

Related trivia: Just last week I was listening to a documentary on the discovery of Easter Island, and learned that the Dutch discoverer named it Paasch-Eyland, Paasch being the Dutch word used for the celebration. I got curious and looked at other Western names for the holiday, and as far as I can tell most every Western language except German and English use some form of the word Pascha. (The Irish word is simply unintelligible to me.) Even the Klingon word starts with the letter p (pln).

 

[Justin-H.S.]

I also have heterodox relatives who invite me to lunch/dinner on Western Easter. That's really all I think of it.

I buy a wall calendar each year and it always denotes the day of Easter. I think of it when I see that. I once bought a calendar that had Easter and also the day of "Orthodox Easter" as it put it. That was nice. I'll take a little recognition wherever we can get it.

Related trivia: Just last week I was listening to a documentary on the discovery of Easter Island, and learned that the Dutch discoverer named it Paasch-Eyland, Paasch being the Dutch word used for the celebration. I got curious and looked at other Western names for the holiday, and as far as I can tell most every Western language except German and English use some form of the word Pascha. (The Irish word is simply unintelligible to me.) Even the Klingon word starts with the letter p (pln).

I saw a meme once that pretty much all of Europe calls it some variation of “Pascha”, except Germany and England. Seems to put the conspiracy theory to bed about Easter being the worship of pagan Ishtar or whatever if it’s only the Germanic languages that call it Easter.

The only calendars we have are the ones from church so that may be part of it...

 

[All4Christ]

I also have heterodox relatives who invite me to lunch/dinner on Western Easter. That's really all I think of it.

I buy a wall calendar each year and it always denotes the day of Easter. I think of it when I see that. I once bought a calendar that had Easter and also the day of "Orthodox Easter" as it put it. That was nice. I'll take a little recognition wherever we can get it.

Related trivia: Just last week I was listening to a documentary on the discovery of Easter Island, and learned that the Dutch discoverer named it Paasch-Eyland, Paasch being the Dutch word used for the celebration. I got curious and looked at other Western names for the holiday, and as far as I can tell most every Western language except German and English use some form of the word Pascha. (The Irish word is simply unintelligible to me.) Even the Klingon word starts with the letter p (pln).

Very true, though I think of it as a form of Pesach (Passover) and the Aramaic pashka, which was translated to Pascha in Hellenistic Greek, directly borrowed into the Latin language and later used in some form through Europe. Incidentally, for anyone who doesn’t know, English has the word Pasch in it - outside of Orthodox Pascha - from Middle Ages English word pasche.

 

[Lukaris]

Well, I'm glad to reassure then, that just as the worst in any group isn't a good example of the broader grouping, this is also true of the 'West' just as much as for the 'East'.

I should have said, “some” instead of “much”; it was too broad.

 

[Chesterton]

Seems to put the conspiracy theory to bed about Easter being the worship of pagan Ishtar or whatever if it’s only the Germanic languages that call it Easter.

Yep, that's what I was thinking.

 

[The Liturgist]

The way much of western Christianity is going, I just pray that they at least continue to worship the same risen Lord we have at least both traditionally known.

Indeed, this is my main concern.

 

[The Liturgist]

I also have heterodox relatives who invite me to lunch/dinner on Western Easter. That's really all I think of it.

I buy a wall calendar each year and it always denotes the day of Easter. I think of it when I see that. I once bought a calendar that had Easter and also the day of "Orthodox Easter" as it put it. That was nice. I'll take a little recognition wherever we can get it.

Related trivia: Just last week I was listening to a documentary on the discovery of Easter Island, and learned that the Dutch discoverer named it Paasch-Eyland, Paasch being the Dutch word used for the celebration. I got curious and looked at other Western names for the holiday, and as far as I can tell most every Western language except German and English use some form of the word Pascha. (The Irish word is simply unintelligible to me.) Even the Klingon word starts with the letter p (pln).

Weird, I thought the Dutch word was Passen.

 

[All4Christ]

Weird, I thought the Dutch word was Passen.

The word for Passover though is Pascha. Maybe 18th century Dutch used Paasch similar to how Middle Ages English used Pasche