Merry Christmas to all forum users! I wish everybody to have beautiful days with your families, be well and be happy! And I also hope Santa visited you all
Wow, I was not aware that you are respecting
the old rite of Orthodoxism, lovesmayfamilis! I still have some relatives which respect it, although in Romania there are only a very few people which still keep this rite.
And, for KingsDen to better understand, in Orthodoxism, religious people are divided between those which follow Julian calendar and those which follow Gregorian calendar (which is also current calendar). By Julian calendar (introduced by Julius Caesar in 45 BC), religious dates are a bit different than our current ones. This is why people following the old religious calendar celebrate Christmas later, on January 7th. As a consequence, they also celebrate the New Year on January 14th. However, those following Julian calendar do it --
as far as I know -- only regarding religious events. So for them current date is still December 25th, for example. And tomorrow will still be December 28th and so on. Only the religious important days are switched.
In Romania we call the old calendar as
the old rite; I don't know if it's common naming in other countries too. However, I am glad to see I and lovesmayfamilis share same religion. We are a bit different, based on the old vs. neew rite, but it's same Orthodox dogma
Merry Christmas!