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Dear DMD,
Unfortunately, the UGCC parishes follow the Gregorian calendar and also the Western Paschalion.
The ideal would, of course, be the Revised Julian Calendar and the Orthodox Paschalion.
Alex Is that in Ukraine or North America or both .
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Dear DMD,
The UGCC pariwhes in Ukraine that have either moved to the Gregorian calendar or who may move in future, would keep to the Orthodox Paschalion.
Should it come to pass that our Primate would make an announcement that we are going to the Gregorian calendar everywhere, he would affirm that we would maintain the Orthodox Paschalion.
This is what I'm hearing from UGCC priests in Canada who are interested in this issue.
Alex
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Thank you. I know a priest here who was in Slovakia previously who served two parishes...one did Pascha with the Latins, the other with the East. He lamented about how the fast would last forever some years! Both parishes were literally in the same town, one atop the mountain, the other in the valley.
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It's a good thing that some parishes don't have any Armenians among their number . . .
Three Christmases would be a tad much!
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To DMD: that priest in Slovakia, was he Orthodox or Greek Catholic? I know that the Finnish and I think, Estonian Orthodox, celebrate the Gregorian Pascha. The Romanian church tried it, but it didn't fly.
In response to your earlier post, for those of us in North America on the Julian calandar, celebrating St. Herman of Alaska on Dec 25th would be most appropriate.
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To DMD: that priest in Slovakia, was he Orthodox or Greek Catholic? I know that the Finnish and I think, Estonian Orthodox, celebrate the Gregorian Pascha. The Romanian church tried it, but it didn't fly.
In response to your earlier post, for those of us in North America on the Julian calandar, celebrating St. Herman of Alaska on Dec 25th would be most appropriate. Greek Catholic
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Good thing the priest wasn't bi-ritual and had to serve a Latin parish with Ash Wednesday and all:-D.
Perhaps some here remember the late Fr. Serge Kelleher's descrption of Holy Week and Pascha at the Greek Catholic Cathedral in Athens. He described how the main chanter, a priest, had to do Holy Week and Pascha at the Greek Catholic church in Corsica on the New Style and then again in Athens on the Old Style. Needless to say, by Bright Monday his voice had just about had it!
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