“In Greece, this year too, we will be celebrating Easter separately. There won’t be the five weeks’ gap between our celebrations as there was last year, but even if it’s only one week this year, it’s enough to make us feel the pain of the separation of Christians, declared the President of the Greek Bishops’ Conference, Bishop Francesco Papamanolis of Syros, Santorini and Crete, in an Easter message of good wishes to SIR . “Our Easter in Greece will be on 23 April – he said -. We pray that we may in future be able to share together in unity at least the celebration of the Resurrection of Our Lord. Until when will the moon and the astronomers regulate our Christian life?”. “I fear very much – he concludes – that Cyrus will rise once again to solve the problem (at one time it was Cyrus, king of the Persians, who solved the vital problems of the Jews). These different dates for Easter also create problems in social, and especially in economic life. But even ‘Cyrus’ would be welcome if that’s what is needed to make us all join together to sing that Christ is truly risen. Happy Easter”.
