From: Please@dont.try   
      
   ++ wrote:   
   > Michael Bulatovich wrote:   
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   >> It was news to me and I was raised as one. The orthodox use the older   
   >> calendar that's 13 days skewed to the 'current' one.   
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   > This is the week prior to regular lent which is forty days from Jewish   
   > Pascha / Passover on the Masuretic calendar (spelling?) then a week is   
   > added, a Jewish calendar no longer in use but in use when they started   
   > doing their calculations.  So there is more than the difference in the   
   > 13 days (in this century) variation between the Gregorian and Julian   
   > calendars for calculating the Christian Pascha.   
      
   That's right...now that I think of it. The difference in the Easters   
   'flexes'.   
      
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