A Blessed Nayrouz to all!

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Hi everybody,

Today is the start of the new year according to the Coptic calendar (and the Ethiopian calendar, which is the same, but with different names for the months and a different reckoning of the date), so I would like to wish all who may use that calendar a blessed new year (Nayrouz). It is terrible that such a day as this which is a feast of the church has recently been marred by tragedy, but let us not forget that it is still a day of rebirth, as we ask the Lord our God to bless this year, and all of our lives throughout it.

 
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Hi everybody,

Today is the start of the new year according to the Coptic calendar (and the Ethiopian calendar, which is the same, but with different names for the months and a different reckoning of the date), so I would like to wish all who may use that calendar a blessed new year (Nayrouz). It is terrible that such a day as this which is a feast of the church has recently been marred by tragedy, but let us not forget that it is still a day of rebirth, as we ask the Lord our God to bless this year, and all of our lives throughout it.
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From what little I know of Nayrouz, it includes a commemoration of those martyred under Diocletian (I think … although I could be wrong about which emperor it was). If that’s true, I suppose it would safe to say that the feast has always been marred by tragedy. Yet it is the Coptic New Year so, nonetheless, I extend my greetings for the New Year and hope it is filled with good things. 😉 😃
 
Well, we don’t have the priests here to celebrate it properly today (that will come this saturday), but in a way the entire year is a commemoration of the Diocletian martyrs, as we mark the year by “A.M” (Anno Martyrum) in remembrance of them. This is why there is the difference between the Copts and the Ethiopians in calculating the date, with the Coptic calendar beginning in 283/84 AD, while the Ethiopians are only 7 (or is it 9? I don’t remember at the moment) years behind the standard Gregorian reckoning.
 
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