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Anhelyna said:
Glorify Him !

A Blessed Feast of the Nativity of Our Lord and Saviour , Jesus Christ to you all :)

I'm just home after Vespers and the Liturgy of St Basil
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Glorify Him!

Christ is Born!
 
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By the way, do North Slavic-related churches like Russians, Ukrainians,
Aleutians, Japanese, Belarussians, Finns, Estonians, and Baltic peoples who are not Carpatho-Rusyn or Ruthenian Greek Catholic but rather who are memners of churches that use the Russian practices (basically those Northern churches where the priest wears an Athonite phelonion which are in areas that have a historical connection to the Russian church) traditionally use the Vesperal Divine Liturgy of St. Basil on the Nativity?

I have noticed several this year that had Vigils but not the liturgy of St. Basil on the evening of the 24th.
 
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gurneyhalleck1 said:
Let’s not get ahead of ourselves! It’s not January 7th yet! I kid. I kid. GLORIFY HIM! ☦️☦️☦️
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I myself am planning on attending a Georgian Orthodox parish for Christmas which is some distance but would be worth it. I also want to attend Koiakh Psalmody at a Coptic Orthodox parish this year, and there are some in the Diocese of Los Angeles that do everything in English, which might aid in appreciating the beautiful hymns (Coptic Vespers during the Nativity fast, which falls in the month of Khoiak, use their own dedicated service book separate from the Annual Psalmody and are reknowned for their beauty, much like the Bridegroom Matins we celebrate in the OCA’s post-Nikonian Studite-Sabaite typikon, or the Rorate Caeli services celebrated by the Antiochian Western Rite Vicarate and probably the ROCOR WRV).
 
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The Liturgist said:
I myself am planning on attending a Georgian Orthodox parish for Christmas which is some distance but would be worth it. I also want to attend Koiakh Psalmody at a Coptic Orthodox parish this year, and there are some in the Diocese of Los Angeles that do everything in English, which might aid in appreciating the beautiful hymns (Coptic Vespers during the Nativity fast, which falls in the month of Khoiak, use their own dedicated service book separate from the Annual Psalmody and are reknowned for their beauty, much like the Bridegroom Matins we celebrate in the OCA’s post-Nikonian Studite-Sabaite typikon, or the Rorate Caeli services celebrated by the Antiochian Western Rite Vicarate and probably the ROCOR WRV).
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Just curious why you’re attending Coptic services? I have a Coptic Church one mile from my house, but since I’m Orthodox, I drive 45 to my Serb parish. Copts are nice folks, but they are non-Chalcedonian.
 
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gurneyhalleck1 said:
Let’s not get ahead of ourselves! It’s not January 7th yet! I kid. I kid. GLORIFY HIM! ☦️☦️☦️
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Do you celebrate Christmas then?

[I'm obviously ignorant about how different jurisdiction or ethnic parishes (???) celebrate Christmas ]

[forgive me, if I'm not using the correct terminology]
 
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RileyG said:
Do you celebrate Christmas then?

[I'm obviously ignorant about how different jurisdiction or ethnic parishes (???) celebrate Christmas ]

[forgive me, if I'm not using the correct terminology]
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Russians, Serbs, Bulgarians, most of the Eastern Orthodox in fact, are still on the Julian calendar, while the Greeks primarily are on the "revised Julian" calendar, which is basically the same as the Gregorian calendar except for all the feast days associated with Pascha, which are aligned with the Julian calendar. There is currently a 13 day difference.
 
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RileyG said:
Do you celebrate Christmas then?

[I'm obviously ignorant about how different jurisdiction or ethnic parishes (???) celebrate Christmas ]

[forgive me, if I'm not using the correct terminology]
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Prodromos answered it perfectly.
 
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prodromos said:
Russians, Serbs, Bulgarians, most of the Eastern Orthodox in fact, are still on the Julian calendar, while the Greeks primarily are on the "revised Julian" calendar, which is basically the same as the Gregorian calendar except for all the feast days associated with Pascha, which are aligned with the Julian calendar. There is currently a 13 day difference.
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Actually unfortunately the Bulgarians adopted the revised Julian Calendar in 1963. I say unfortunately because even though I am not an Old Calendarist, I prefer tne Julian Calendar because of the problem you get in some years with the RJC when the number of days Apostles Fast becomes less than one, and the impossibility of a Kyriopascha. The Bulgarians also use much of the same music and liturgical practices as the Russians, Ukrainians, Polish Orthodox and Belarussians, which had formed a sort of north Slavic liturgical style, which is in my view weakened by calendar differences.

Interestingly many ACROD parishes including their cathedral still use the Julian Calendar. I was shocked when I realized that after adding their cathedral to the lost of Orthodox churches whose streams I save and often watch at night or while I am recuperating in my illness.

I am pretty sure the Archdiocese of Sitka and Alaska uses the Julian Calendar. I was also surprised to find that there are few or no ROCOR parishes in Alaska, despite the Antiochians and even the small Bulgarian Orthodox diocese in North America (like the Romanians, about half of the Bulgarian churches in North America are operated by the OCA and the other half are under their own Patriarch).
 
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prodromos said:
Russians, Serbs, Bulgarians, most of the Eastern Orthodox in fact, are still on the Julian calendar, while the Greeks primarily are on the "revised Julian" calendar, which is basically the same as the Gregorian calendar except for all the feast days associated with Pascha, which are aligned with the Julian calendar. There is currently a 13 day difference.
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Julian means Christmas is December 25th? Forgive my ignorance.
 
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