Although the Churches are discussing the possibility of celebrating Easter on the same day, differences in the liturgical calendar still persist. Thus, while Catholics and Angelicans began Lent with the celebration of Ash Wednesday on 1st March, the Orthodox did so a week later, on 6 March. As a consequence the dates for Easter also differ: Catholics will celebrate it on Sunday 16 April and the Orthodox on Sunday 23. In his Message for Lent, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew invites the faithful to conduct an examination of conscience, suggesting a list of “sins” to repent: indifference to our neighbour, selfishness, lack of love or even hatred, feelings of superiority, vanity and ambition. All this writes the Patriarch makes “us human beings something very different from the man made in the image of God who is love, humility, meekness, peace and reconciliation. All of us, therefore, have a need to repent, and that means changing our mentality”. “By submitting ourselves to the tribunal of our conscience continues Bartholomew we will acknowledge our inadequacy, ignorance and other failings”.
