Re: Merry Christmas
| From: | Irina Rempt <irina@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, January 9, 2002, 10:30 |
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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
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Varsinen an laynynay, saraz no arlet rastynay.
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