Fr. Luke Melackrinos Talks About Celebrating Easter

Father Luke Melackrinos is a spiritual leader at the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of St. Paul Hempstead, NY. He says the Greek Orthodox Church celebrates for Easters in a different way than the Western Churches. The two Churches celebrate on different days based on two different calendars. Easter in both churches always fall on the first Sunday after the first full moon of spring, but the Western Church follows the Georgian Calendar while the Eastern Follows the Julian Calendar. Easter for the Greek Orthodox is always after Passover. The Churches do follow similar Holy Weeks leading up to Easter, there is the Last Supper and Good Friday but the Greek Orthodox does those events after sundown. The other big difference is that the music is the backbone for Greek orthodox Easter. Food is involved in both Easter celebrations.