Date of Nativity, Fasts & Feasts

[Khaleas]

Does someone have an calender (old) for January next year. When is Nativity and what other feasts and fasts are there in January-Early February?

I'm hoping to go to St Petersburg for three weeks early next year to study some Russian and trying to plan accordingly. My calendar ends in Dec and all others that I can find are new calender...

TIA

[MariaRegina]

All you do is add 13 days to our feast days and you have the old calendar.

We celebrate the Nativity on 25 December and they on 7 January.

The date for Pascha 2006 is the same as for us in the United States. Pascha, except for the Finns, Roman Catholics and Protestants, is thankfully the same day worldwide for all the Orthodox Christians.

I think a big factor has to do with the Holy Miracle of the Holy Light annually at Pascha in Jerusalem. The Holy Light only appears on Orthodox Pascha, not Western Easter.

[sin_vladimirov]

I use this one,
it is Serbian ETERNAL Calendar.
Serbian Churches of God still use Julian Calendar.

http://www.serbianunity.net/spc/kalendar.html (http://www.serbianunity.net/spc/kalendar.html)


NOTE:
Contrary to the popular thinking, Old calendar Nativity is STILL ON 25 December!
We do not celebrate it on 7 January (of the "new" calendar), that day (7 January) is Synaxis of St. John the Baptist.

ALL IT IS,

is that due to difference between "new" and "old" calendars Nativity FALLS on 7 January, it is still 25 December.



I love confusing people:D

[Khaleas]

I use this one,
it is Serbian ETERNAL Calendar.
Serbian Churches of God still use Julian Calendar.

http://www.serbianunity.net/spc/kalendar.html (http://www.serbianunity.net/spc/kalendar.html)


NOTE:
Contrary to the popular thinking, Old calendar Nativity is STILL ON 25 December!
We do not celebrate it on 7 January (of the "new" calendar), that day (7 January) is Synaxis of St. John the Baptist.

ALL IT IS,

is that due to difference between "new" and "old" calendars Nativity FALLS on 7 January, it is still 25 December.



I love confusing people:D

Oh, my church does celebrate it in January... and so does the Russians as far as I know... (thinking in the terms of new calender, which the rest of the world kinda follows)... so I was thinking in the term of plane tickets etc... not in the need of confusion...

[sin_vladimirov]

Which January!!!... OUTRAGE!!!.....
:D ^_^


I know dear sister.
I am just saying that even-though IT FALLS in January of the "new" (Gregorian) calendar (used by civil authorities in most of the modern world), the feast itself is on 25 December (of the old calendar-Julian).

:thumbsup:

[MariaRegina]

In 2006, Orthodox Christian Pascha falls just one week short of Western Easter.

So while they are celebrating their Easter, we will be processing with palm branches and pussy willows.