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[quote=Anonymous]I’m a Catholic married to a Greek (Orthodox) and we have tween kids. I’m not a very practicing Catholic so I was fine with getting married in the Orthodox Church ( without having the need to convert) and agreed at DH’s request to have the kids baptized in the Greek Orthodox Church.

Greek Orthodox communities celebrate Easter at a different date though. While everyone is celebrating Easter today, the Orthodox congregations are celebrating Palm Sunday, as their Easter is next week. Next year, the Greek Orthodox Easter is in May while everyone else will celebrate Easter in March. We have explained these differences to the kids and the reasons behind them.

I never thought this would be as much of an issue but clearly our kids now feel awkward that we celebrate at a different time. My 11 year old was even asking yesterday “ Can’t we just go to mommy’s church and celebrate Easter like everyone else ?”

I’m not questioning any of the theological differences between the 2 churches. I honestly feel the timing of the Orthodox Easter which always falls after Passover is more correct.

This is more of a practical issue. For the Greek Orthodox on this forum, how do you navigate this ? [/quote]

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