Re: Merry Christmas

Oh, my.  That is complex.  I didn't realize there was a MIXED calendar.
Having one for religious observance and one for secular use is bad enough,
but a mixed religious observance calendar with some dates determined by one
calendar and others by another!  Who established *that* tradition?  And how
old is that tradition?

Adam the bumfuzzled

>From: Irina Rempt <irina@...>
>Reply-To: conlang@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
>To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
>Subject: Re: Merry Christmas
>Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 11:30:00 +0100
>
>On Wednesday 09 January 2002 10:49, you wrote:
> > Sorry, I know I'm a day or two late (depending on your time zone),
> > but Merry Christmas to Irina, Basilius, Pavel and anyone else who
> > may have been celebrating by the Julian callendar!
>
>Thanks; but we (Boudewijn and I) don't celebrate by the Julian
>calendar. We have the mixed (Constantinople) calendar that celebrates
>everything that falls on a specified date on the "normal", Gregorian
>date, and everything that is calculated by the Easter cycle (like
>Pentecost, and Easter itself) with the rest of Orthodoxy. Confusing,
>because it may put the feast of SS. Peter and Paul before Pentecost,
>making it impossible to have a fast to prepare for it.
>
>In fact we had the Theophany with the Blessing of the Waters last
>Sunday, and there was a splendid picture (featuring Boudewijn in his
>acolyte sticharion) on the front page of the local paper.
>
>    Irina
>
>--
>            Varsinen an laynynay, saraz no arlet rastynay.
>irina@valdyas.org (myself)     http://www.valdyas.org/irina/valdyas

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