The dating of Pascha in the Orthodox Church is not in line with the intent of the First Ecumenical Council. Our Bishops and Patriarchs need to know that we support fixing this error.

How?

The concept is simple: the First Ecumenical Council instructed the Church to celebrate Pascha on the first Sunday following the first full moon following the vernal (March) equinox.

This formula unites the seasonal/solar time scale, the monthly/lunar time scale, and the time scale of the 7-day week to celebrate our Lord's holy resurrection according to the movements of the heavenly bodies he created. But for centuries, calculating in advance when this date occur year to year has been exceedingly difficult, and different local churches have used various complex methods, all of them resulting in error. The Orthodox Church currently relies on an artificially fixed "equinox" date instead of the astronomical equinox, as well as Julius Caesar's old calendar which has slipped a full 13 days (!) since the First Ecumenical Council. This means that the Orthodox Church rarely celebrates Pascha on the Sunday after the Paschal full moon, as the Council intended.

Thankfully, the solution is also simple: we now have the tools to accurately and precisely calculate exactly when the equinox and full moon will be for any given year, centuries in advance. Following the proposal made in Aleppo, Syria in 1997 to use the astronomical full moon following the astronomical vernal equinox, as determined by the Jerusalem meridian, let's let our Bishops know that we support:

Celebrating Pascha according to the actual sun and moon in the sky as the First Ecumenical Council intended.

It's time.