Posted on 12/25/2024 11:02:10 AM PST by Timber Rattler
The Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) and the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) will celebrate Christmas on Dec. 25, instead of Jan. 7 for the second year after transitioning to the Revised Julian Calendar.
Since Sept. 1, 2023, Christians of the Eastern Rite in Ukraine have been using the Revised Julian Calendar. This calendar shifts certain fixed-date religious celebrations 13 days earlier compared to the "old style."
While the OCU allowed parishes to choose their preferred Christmas date during a transitional period, the majority of believers embraced the new calendar.
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Absolutely AMAZING,
Thank God Zelensky decreed the Orthodox Church illegal, seized its assets and churches, and moved the country’s traditional date to celebrate Christmas from January 7 to December 25. Otherwise the Ukraine wouldn’t be celebrating Christmas today, December 25.
Gonna file this under “Things that dictators do.”
Thank you.
Makes my Azov nipples hard.
“Please do not disrupt a thread for a LIVE feed to Christmas services on the Religion board.”
Now you’re posting your propaganda on f-religious and think that entitles you to protect protection about discussion of religion?
Thank God Zelensky decreed the Orthodox Church illegal, seized its assets and churches, and moved the country’s traditional date to celebrate Christmas from January 7 to December 25. Otherwise the Ukraine wouldn’t be celebrating Christmas today, December 25.
Gonna file this under “Things that dictators do.”
I am a Christian and I think it’s horrible that free Republic is censoring responses of Christians on a Christian thread.
“I am a Christian and I think it’s horrible that free Republic is censoring responses of Christians on a Christian thread.”
I’m a Christian and think your labeling of a livestream of a Christmas liturgy as propaganda is horrible.
At least Zelensky hasn’t completely shut this down. Just the citizens ability to say it in their own language.
Zelensky will perform his usual festive “Dance” at the Cathedral today to honor his ally Pussy Riot’s “festivities” at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, Moscow.
Uh, their "own language" is Ukrainian, but that's beside the point. It's a beautiful liturgy and service!
“Just the citizens ability to say it in their own language.”
Depends on who you’re talking about. Most likely the liturgy was said, in years past, in Old Church Slavonic by the UOC-MP priests. A language spoken on a daily basis by exactly no one anywhere. Now the liturgical language may shift more towards Ukrainian since it is the Ukrainian Orthodox Church after all.
Just as KJV English is spoken on a daily basis by exactly no one anywhere (except by Shakespearean actors), but look at how many Freepers will only accept that version — and it is magnificently beautiful. Or the beautiful English in the Rite I section of the Episcopal Prayerbook, (the old version of the Prayer book being among the most beautiful works in the English language). And then there’s Latin ...
I gather you know this ... but to make it clear to others here: Church Slavonic isn’t just a Russian thing, and is the liturgical language of the Eastern Orthodox Church in Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia — and Ukraine (? don’t know if it still is in Ukraine after 2023 changes there).
I actually preferred it because my Serbo-Croat* was much better than my Russian and way better than my Ukrainian, and Church Slavonic is more like Serbo-Croat, at least to my ear it was. Maybe it’s true because Czechs, Russians and Ukrainians told me Serbo-Croat sounded similar to Church Slavonic to them (and some Russians said it sounded like a hillbilly version of Church Slavonic). Macedonians told me it wasn’t all that different from Macedonian (but I don’t know Macedonian at all, so ...).
Anyway, I got the impression Church Slavonic has a sort of resonance, a majesty for them, sort of like what we feel about the KJV (and the old Episcopal Prayerbook), and also serves as a unifier of the Slavic Orthodox Churches (kind of like Latin once did among Catholics worldwide). It was also my understanding that it might be pronounced with what you might call a different accent in Serbia vs Russia vs Ukraine, etc., as well as spelled slightly differently owing to differences in their respective alphabets.
I hope any Orthodox reading this will correct any errors I may have made. I’m just going by my personal impressions.
*No, I refuse to use those silly words “Croatian”, “Serbian” and that nutty made-up word “Bosniak”. It’s the same dang language, and they mostly speak the same dialect. So I’m sticking with Serbo-Croat. I don’t say Türkiye either. It’s Turkey, y’all. Like that big fat (and rather stupid) bird we eat on Thanksgiving Day.
I’ve been there a number of times. It is a truly beautiful place. Hearing the priests chanting the mass is inspiring.
Pure hate on his Christian thread. He is one o f the worst
Putin steals, *kills*, and covets
3 Commandments broken, and more than once
Yet you always defend the murderous monster, and attack anyone who criticizes him
A REAL Christian wouldn’t do that
A real Christian wouldn’t celebrate the outlawing of a major Christian religion and seize all of their properties, that is what a godless communist of satanic devil would do.
“Look, a squirrel!”
typical Russo cheerleader
Says a Canadian communist that never has once posted a negative article about Turdeau and the communists running his crap hole hole country.
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