happy new year ---old style

Liudmilla · Post by **Liudmilla** » Fri 14 January 2005 11:35 am

Happy New Year to all who use the old calendar!

:mrgreen:

Milla

George Australia · Post by **George Australia** » Fri 14 January 2005 7:29 pm

Liudmilla wrote:
Happy New Year to all who use the old calendar!

Dear in Christ, Milla,
Which Old Calendar are you talking about? The Patristic Old Calendar or the 'Revised' Old Calendar?
Since the Indiction begins on September 1st, we are still in the 12th year of the Indiction until September 1st 2005- so really, it's not a New Year for us. It is still the year 7512 according to the Seventy, and it won't be 7513 until September 1st AD 2005.

George

Anastasios · Post by **Anastasios** » Fri 14 January 2005 7:30 pm

I think you are a little late! New Years was on September 1/14 on the old, OLD style

Anastasios

Priest Siluan · Post by **Priest Siluan** » Fri 14 January 2005 8:02 pm

Ok

Prologue of Ochrid

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September 14th - Civil Calendar
September 1st - Church Calendar

 

1. The Beginning of the Church's Year.

The First Ecumenical Council decreed that the Church's year should begin on September 1st. The month of September was, for the Jews, the beginning of the civil year (see Exodus 12:2), the month of the gathering of fruits and the bringing to God of sacrifices of thanksgiving. It was at the time of this feast that the Lord Jesus went into the synagogue in Nazareth, opened the Book of the Prophet Isaiah and read the words: 'The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me; because He hath anointed Me to preach good tidings unto the meek; He hath sent Me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance' (Is. 61:1-2; cf. Luke 4:16-21). This month of September is also noted in the history of Christianity because it was during September that Constantine the Great was victorious over Maxentius, the enemy of the Christian faith, a victory followed by the granting of freedom of confession of the Christian faith throughout the whole Roman Empire. For a long time, the civil year in the Christian world was reckoned in the same way as the Church's year, from September 1st, but it was later changed to January 1st, first in western Europe and then also in Russia in the time of Peter the Great.

With Love in Christ

Siluan

Justin Kissel · Post by **Justin Kissel** » Fri 14 January 2005 8:06 pm

You guys are rough! Well I say Happy New Year anyway.

Mor Ephrem · Post by **Mor Ephrem** » Sat 15 January 2005 3:23 pm

I agree, Justin. I don't know with whom to be in communion.

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