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sprinkleeninow

(20,133 posts)
Fri Dec 25, 2020, 01:30 AM Dec 2020

🌟Orthodox Church: Feastday of the Nativity Hymns

CHRIST IS BORN!
GIVE HIM GLORY!

'Katavasias of the 1st Canon of the Nativity of Christ'


'Kontakion • Nativity of Christ • Byzantine chant'


'Canon Ode 1 • Nativity of Christ • Byzantine/Russian Greek chant'


'Canon Ode 3 - Nativity of Christ - Byzantine/Russian Greek chant'


'NATIVITY HYMN OF CHRIST • Stichera of the Ninth Hour • Ancient Eastern Orthodox Catholic Church'


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🌟Orthodox Church: Feastday of the Nativity Hymns (Original Post) sprinkleeninow Dec 2020 OP
This may be a really naive question... regnaD kciN Dec 2020 #1
There are still some Old Calendarists (churches) that adhere to the Julian Calendar sprinkleeninow Dec 2020 #2

regnaD kciN

(26,035 posts)
1. This may be a really naive question...
Fri Dec 25, 2020, 02:09 AM
Dec 2020

...but I remember when most if not all Eastern Orthodox celebrated Christmas on January 7th, keeping to the "old calendar." Have the Orthodox now shifted it to December 25th, at least in the U.S.?

sprinkleeninow

(20,133 posts)
2. There are still some Old Calendarists (churches) that adhere to the Julian Calendar
Fri Dec 25, 2020, 02:32 AM
Dec 2020

for liturgical holydays except for Easter [Pascha] which follows the calculation that it does. After the full moon, after Passover. Some years it conjoins with the Western date which is pleasing.

The Greek Orthodox Church in America and the Orthodox Church in America [OCA] celebrate the Nativity on December 25. I do believe the Antiochians also keep the 25th. Some Carpatho-Rus Churches voted to keep the 7th or change to the 25th. Newly established communities celebrate the 25th of December.

It's not a naive question.

I was immersed in Orthodoxy 40 days 'new'. 😁 And still continue to receive enlightenment!

Merry Christmas! 🕊

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