{"id":19088,"date":"2010-04-08T19:01:05","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T19:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/terry_mattingly_the_quest_for_the_common_easter\/"},"modified":"2010-04-08T19:01:05","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T19:01:05","slug":"terry_mattingly_the_quest_for_the_common_easter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=19088","title":{"rendered":"Terry Mattingly: The Quest for the common Easter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Motorists across America saw a strange sight this past Sunday morning if they stopped at a traffic signal near an Eastern Orthodox sanctuary and then, shortly thereafter, passed a Catholic parish.<\/p>\n<p>What they saw was worshippers singing hymns and waving palm fronds as they marched in Palm Sunday processions at these churches. Similar sights will be common during Holy Week rites this week and then on Easter Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>There is nothing unusual about various churches celebrating these holy days in their own ways. What is rare is for the churches of the East and West to be celebrating Easter (\u201cPascha\u201d\u009d in the East) on the same day. This will happen again next year, as well as in 2014 and 2017.<\/p>\n<p>This remains one of the most painful symbols of division in global Christianity&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmatt.net\/2010\/04\/05\/quest-for-the-common-easter\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Motorists across America saw a strange sight this past Sunday morning if they stopped at a traffic signal near an Eastern Orthodox sanctuary and then, shortly thereafter, passed a Catholic parish. What they saw was worshippers singing hymns and waving<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=19088\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,42,186,187,571,418,154,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-religion-news-commentary","category-church-history","category-church-year-liturgical-seasons","category-easter","category-orthodox-church","category-other-churches","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}