Happy New Year!

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Happy New Year my brothers and sisters!

May the new year bring some measure of peace and justice to our sisters and brothers in the homelands where so much persecution daily takes place.

May we all grow closer to Christ God and in some measure closer to each other through Him here on CAF.
 
Happy New Year to you as well!

Those on the Julian Calendar will celebrate it on September 14th and the Ethiopians will celebrate it on September 11th - the difference being that in Ethiopia, the September new year is their national new year as well.

BTW, the Ethiopian calendar is over seven years behind our calendar in the West.

Alex
 
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Happy New Year to you as well!

Those on the Julian Calendar will celebrate it on September 14th and the Ethiopians will celebrate it on September 11th - the difference being that in Ethiopia, the September new year is their national new year as well.

BTW, the Ethiopian calendar is over seven years behind our calendar in the West.

Alex
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I consider this one of the advantages of having different calendars 😉 (we’re on revised Julian which does celebrate today)-- we can celebrate twice-- today and again in another 14 days, and you’re saying 3 times, as I didn’t know about the Ethiopians. 😃
 
Yes, here in Toronto there will be a big Ethiopian Orthodox/Catholic celebration in Christie Pitts on Sept. 13th! 👍

And we should not forget the Hebrew Catholics who also observe the Jewish Rosh haShanah on Sept. 9th! 🙂

As I understand it, the Roman Catholic Church observes its Church New Year on the first Sunday of Advent :confused:

Alex
 
O Creator and Master of time and eternity,
God of all, O merciful One, bless the course of this year,
and in your boundless mercy,
save all those who worship you, our one and only Master,
and who cry out to you in fear:
O Savior, grant a happy year to all people.
 
5Loaves said:
I consider this one of the advantages of having different calendars 😉 (we’re on revised Julian which does celebrate today)-- we can celebrate twice-- today and again in another 14 days, and you’re saying 3 times, as I didn’t know about the Ethiopians. 😃
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Speaking of things like that – I learned last Christmas that one of our Eastern groups (Ruthenians? I really can’t remember which) celebrates the birth of Jesus in January. My wife and I were thinking that that’s actually really cool. Having two distinct dates would separate the shopping and trees and “ho ho ho” side of the holiday from the Jesus side. There’d be no mix-up in your head or your heart.

I kinda like the idea.
 
Dear Scott,

The Ukrainian Catholics have both calendars and there are parishes in the U.S. that do observe Christmas on January 7th (as I do). And you are right! 🙂

The Armenians celebrate Christmas on January 6th, the day of Epiphany. They are the only Church to celebrate Christmas on the day on which the early Church always celebrated it - Christmas, Epiphany and the Three Kings were celebrate on January 6th originally but Christmas was later moved to the 25th etc.

In Israel, there is a group of Julian Calendar Armenians who celebrate Christmas on Julian Calendar Epiphany/Theophany on January 18th. That really should be January 19th, since a day had to be added to the Julian Calendar with the start of the 20th century, but they didn’t so they keep to January 18th to this day.

The Armenian Church is well organized on this score and priests have letters to give Armenian children to take to school to explain why they take January 6th as a holy-day.

The Armenians belong to the Oriental Orthodox family of Churches, but there is also an Armenian Catholic Church (with its famous religious Order fo the Mechitarists who enjoy wide respect among all Armenians). There have also been groups of Armenian Orthodox who belonged to Eastern Orthodoxy (Chalcedonian Armenians).

The Coptic Church commemorates the Nativity of our Lord on the 25th of every month, except during Lent . . . 👍

Alex
 
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