Ethnic Calendar Calendars in most cultures serve not only as a system for arranging time into days, weeks, and months, but also as a record of a culture's existence. Events and individuals of significance are remembered and celebrated via calendars. In the New York Metropolitan Area, the key specially consumer groups with a penchant for goat meat are defined in part by faith rather than race.
Christians use one of two calendars.
In 1582, the Julian calendar was 10 days off of the Solar year, and on March 1st of that year Pope Gregory XIII introduced reforms to the calendar. Most Eastern churches continued to use the Julian calendar to determine the time of Easter but adopted the new Gregorian calendar for Christmas. Currently the two calendars are approximately 13 days out of phase. This difference, added to the use of various systems of calculations, can result in Easter coming from one to five weeks later in the Eastern churches than in Western churches. Easter has traditionally been a special day of feasting in both Eastern and Western churches.