Serbian TOC 2015 Calendar

[Despotovac]

With the God-loving labor of the Uteshiteljevo Eparchy’s publishing group “The Paraclete,” Serbian believers in the homeland and diaspora have been given the chance of having a calendar which has notconnection with the ecumenist pocket calendar published by the “Holy Hierarchical Synod” of the Serbian Patriarchate in which for decades we had to endure not only Papist but even Jewish feastdays and fasts. The Orthodox Calendar 2015 is in no way a plagiarism of the “Synod” calendar above. On the contrary, it is an original work of the Uteshiteljevo Eparchy’s publishing group “The Paraclete.” For the first time one can find in a Serbian calendar the dates of the glorification of the feastdays and saints canonized by the Russian Catacomb Church, The Russian Church Abroad, and the Greek and Romanian Old Calendar Churches, such as the Royal Martyrs Tsar Nicholas II and family, the holy Russian new martyrs and confessors, St. John of Shanghai, Saint Glicherie the New Confessor of Romania, St. Philaret of New York the New Confessor, Hieromartyr Joseph of Petrograd, along with the great miracle of God, the third appearance of the Precious Cross above Athens in 1925 as a confirmation of the correctness of the Old Church Calendar.
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[Barbara]

What a constructive, useful idea ! I am so glad that they have published this edifying calendar ; I assume it will appear every year and become a staple of the Serbian True Orthodox !

Amazing, absolutely unbelievable, the Serbian Patriarchate's version !

Thank God there is one available now without such blemishes as "hanukah".

[Maria]

This passage was interesting from the above link given in the OP.

• along with the great miracle of God, the third appearance of the Precious Cross above Athens in 1925 as a confirmation of the correctness of the Old Church Calendar.

When did the first two appearance of the Precious Cross occur?

Barbara, sometimes it is important to know secular dates when traveling.
For example, in the USA, it is very important to know that this Sunday was SuperBowl Sunday, not because we celebrate it, but to avoid traffic jams or visit an impacted store on the Saturday before SuperBowl, when there so many shoppers and so little produce available.

When I visited Trader Joes back on SuperBowl Saturday in 2011, there was no cheese, avocados, bananas, carrots, celery, tomatoes, etc. Everything was off the shelves like there was going to be a major hurricane or blizzard. Even water was gone. Since then, I carefully avoid shopping on the Saturday and Sunday of Superbowl weekend.

[Barbara]

How funny, Maria ! I had the strangest feeling to NOT go out shopping both Saturday and Sunday of this past weekend.
I had NO clue it was that particular day. I felt this restraining hand, which I obeyed, though I really wanted to go shopping, since I hadn't been out for quite some time. Like weeks ! So I am SO glad I didn't go to a grocery store - or anywhere really the 2 days. I realized vaguely that it was the superbowl - whatever that means ! - only this morning at a bank, when I overheard the teller greet a customer : "How was your superbowl sunday, did you watch the game ?"
It didn't even register, though, UNTIL I read your helpful post.

Maybe we should have an alert system set up next year so we can avoid your dismal fate at Trader Joe's !
For, I will NEVER remember that event otherwise by the time next Feb rolls around. Let alone further years.