Posted on 02/13/2023 7:20:59 PM PST by marshmallow
The Ukrainian Catholic Church will celebrate Christmas Dec. 25, as it moves away from the Julian calendar.
The head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church announced Feb. 6 that that the world’s largest Eastern Catholic Church will change liturgical calendars this fall, changing the date of several liturgical feasts, as Ukrainian Christian distance themselves from the influence of the Russian Orthodox Church.
The move means that Ukrainian Catholics will begin this year celebrating Christmas on Dec. 25, but will for now continue to celebrate Easter on a later date than most of the world’s Catholics and Protestant Christians.
Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk announced Monday that the Ukrainian Catholic Church will mostly discontinue using the Julian calendar, a liturgical calendar used almost exclusively by the Russian Orthodox Church and other eastern churches influenced by it.
Shevchuk, head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, announced that the change had called for during a Feb. 1-2 synodal meeting of the Church's bishops. In the Ukrainian Catholic Church, the synod of bishops is a policy-setting body, which governs the Church in line with the major archbishop and the pope.
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The Romanian Orthodox Church also uses the Western calendar.
Presumably partly because of the war. The Gregorian calendar was a reform by a Pope Gregory XIII. Catholic countries mostly accepted it immediately in 1582. Britain not until 1750 and Russia until 1917. Most Orthodox Churches do not accept it and celebrate Christmas 13 days later.
This isn’t an Orthodox church. It is an Eastern Rite Catholic Church in full communion with the Wider Roman Catholic Church. I’m surprised they aren’t already on the same liturgical calendar as the rest of the Church.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_Greek_Catholic_Church
Did they remove Russian dressing from the store shelves too?
Uke idiots. .
AFAIK, Ukrainian Catholic churches in the US are on the Gregorian Calendar and have been for some time. The “Old Calendarist” Ukrainian Catholics are only in Ukraine and (maybe some eparchies? parishes?) in Canada.
OTOH, why should they stick with a calendar that has been proven to lose 1 day every century (vs astronomical truth) simply because the ROC does ... especially since they aren’t in communion with Moscow anyway, and haven’t been for 500 years?
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