Suggestions that Easter should be celebrated on the same day across rites seems, in my humble opinion, to show a distinct lack of respect for tradition. As to updating outmoded liturgical forms - such notions are really so passé - a transcendant liturgy stands outside of time and must be perennial not updated at a whim.
It seems the East has been busy looking at the lassitude of the West - We Latins however are not unaware of the corruptions which have already seriously erroded the traditions of the East - particularly the Maronites.
Pope St John XXIII Blessing the Agnus Deis
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Some interesting unused footage of Pope St John XXIII blessing the Agnus
Deis in 1959, from the YouTube channel of British Pathé. (The video has no
sound.)...
18 hours ago

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