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.
The Dedication of the Holy Sepulchre
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In the Byzantine Rite, there are three observances on the calendar today.
The first is a very ancient feast adopted from the liturgical tradition of
the ci...
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