January 19, 2009 in Eastern Orthodox Christianity
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On the site of the University of Michigan’s newspaper. It’s just a few minutes, but includes BEAUTIFUL Russian choral music (in Church Slavonic, I presume), as well as service excerpts, and a few words from a priest about ‘Christmas in January.’ (Crank the volume, because it’s really low on the video.)
May 13, 2008 in Eastern Orthodox Christianity
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Christ is Risen! Indeed He is Risen!
Yes, on the Third Monday of Pascha yesterday morning – May 12 (NS)! - some snow stuck to the ground in higher elevations of southwestern Pennsylvania (link may break), the Commonwealth where I and alot of other Orthodox live!
This discussion goes back to my recent post occasioned by the (Western) Good [...]
March 22, 2008 in Eastern Orthodox Christianity
Tags: calendars, computus, Easter, Eastern Orthodoxy, Gregorian Calendar, Julian Calendar, New Calendar, Old Calendar, Orthodox Christianity, orthodoxy, Pascha, paschalion
This was Pope Gregory XIII’s idea of Spring? Even in Rome it’s a bit colder than usual right now, according to the Weather Channel.
It’s a shame people in the Midwest had their Good Friday services cancelled owing to the snow in the north and the flooding in the south. This year Orthodox Pascha (Easter) is 5 [...]
March 17, 2008 in Eastern Orthodox Christianity
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Tomorrow is March 17, the feast of St. Patrick of Armagh, Enlightener of Ireland. Because it’s also Monday of Holy Week for Western Christians (as well as some Eastern Catholics, and Orthodox in Finland and some in Estonia) – the earliest it’s come since 1856 - some towns and churches held St. Patrick’s Day parades and [...]
March 17, 2008 in Eastern Orthodox Christianity
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IIUC, some say one of the reasons for the adoption of the Gregorian calendar in the West starting in the 1580s, and in favor of the Orthodox New Calendar or “Revised Julian Calendar” starting in the 1920s, was that with the movement of the astronomical Vernal Equinox with respect to the ‘official’ – or what [...]
March 1, 2008 in Eastern Orthodox Christianity
Tags: Christianity, Gregorian Calendar, leap day, leap year, leap year day, New Calendar, Old Calendar, Orthodox Christianity, orthodoxy, religion, Revised Julian Calendar
(And no, this late posting isn’t an example of it; I just read the story in my local newspaper at this late hour!)
February 29, 2100, will not exist on the Gregorian Calendar or the Orthodox New Calendar (aka Revised Julian Calendar), but will on the Orthodox Old Calendar. Every four years is a Leap Year in [...]
