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All, I stand corrected on the Russian Calendar. My humble apologies.

Not being an extremely important issue my misuderstanding was the result of a conversation I had with an ethnic Russian (who did not speak fluent English) and was shocked to find out that there were Orthodox on the new Calendar. I mistook this conversation to mean that the Russian civil calendar was also the Julian.

I did find this most interested snippet on the internet thought...

from 1918 to 1923 the Gregorian calendar was in use, from 1923 to 1931 the five-day Russian Revolutionary calendar must be consulted, and from 1931 until 1940 the Russian calendar with the six-day week was in effect. From 1940 onward, official Russia returned to the Gregorian calendar with its seven-day week, using Sunday as a rest-day.By this latest action the government returned to the idea of Lenin, and Russia is once more using the same calendar as "all the civilized countries of the world."

Thank you for correcting me.

"Any servant who kept his peace and did nothing in order to prevent thieves from breaking into his master house, would be condemned by his master as being treacherous thief like them even if he had not done nothing to assist them." - St. Symeon the New Theologian

Dear Orthodoxyordeath:

And the reason for this last post is.....?

Glory to Jesus Christ!

Dear Medved,
I have no Idea why they do so unless they have mixed the Civil New Year (a Time to Party after Nativity) into the Julian Calendar. Their Home Countries are on the Gregorian Calendar for Civil purposes.

The Start of the Church Year is September 1. In deed there is even a special service done on the Orthodox New Year to commemorate it with prayer and asking God's blessing upon the Church and her people over the next year. The Church readings specific to the Church New Year are 1 Timothy 2:1-7 and Luke 4:16-22.

It should be noted that The Orthodox Church New Year is not celebrated with wild parties as many do with the secular, Civil New Year.

Your brother in Christ,
Thomas

[ 01-31-2002: Message edited by: Thomas ]

I'm still lost here. You say "nobody else who considers Jan.7 (ns) Christmas" but then you use the plural "we". I was brought up to accept family visitations as an indispensible part of a Christian life. Until now, I would have thought this was much stronger among Eastern Christians than the general public.

But, a more fun topic, is anyone familiar with the French saying "The cows are Catholic"?

K.