Re: congratulations!
Re: congratulations!
Vilnius »32 minutes ago
Happy holiday, it’s interesting - Christians have one God, and Jesus was born to Catholics in December, to Orthodox Christians in January, and one kind of child
The Roman Church set December 25 as the date of the celebration of the Nativity of Christ after the victory of Constantine the Great (c. 320 or 353). Already from the end of the 4th century the whole Christian world celebrated Christmas on this day (with the exception of the eastern churches, where this holiday was celebrated on January 6).
And in our time, Orthodox Christmas is 13 days behind the Catholic; Catholics celebrate Christmas on December 25, and Orthodox on January 7.
This happened due to the confusion of calendars. The Julian calendar, introduced in 46 BC. e. Emperor Julius Caesar, adding one more day in February, was much more convenient than the old Roman one, but nevertheless turned out to be insufficiently clear - the "extra" time continued to accumulate. For every 128 years, one unaccounted day raced. This led to the fact that in the XVI century one of the most important Christian holidays - Easter - began to "advance" much earlier than the due date. Therefore, Pope Gregory XIII launched another reform, replacing the Julian style with the Gregorian one. The goal of the reform was to correct the growing difference between the astronomical year and the calendar.
So in 1582 a new Gregorian calendar appeared in Europe, while in Russia they continued to use the Julian calendar.
In Russia, the Gregorian calendar was introduced in 1918, but the church did not approve of this decision.
In 1923, at the initiative of the Patriarch of Constantinople, a meeting of the Orthodox Churches was held, at which a decision was made to correct the Julian calendar. Due to historical circumstances, the Russian Orthodox Church was not able to take part in it. Upon learning of the meeting in Constantinople, Patriarch Tikhon nevertheless issued a decree on the transition to the "New Julian" calendar. But this caused protests among the church people and the decree was canceled in less than a month.
Together with the Russian Orthodox Church, on the night of January 6-7, the feast of the Nativity of Christ is celebrated by the Georgian, Jerusalem and Serbian Orthodox Churches, Athos monasteries living according to the old Julian calendar, as well as many Catholics of the Eastern rite (in particular, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church) and part of Russian Protestants.
All the other 11 Local Orthodox Churches in the world celebrate Christmas, like the Catholics, on the night of December 24 to 25, because they use not the "Catholic" Gregorian calendar, but the so-called "New Julian", which so far coincides with the Gregorian. The discrepancy between these calendars in one day will accumulate by 2800 (the discrepancy between the Julian calendar and the astronomical year in one day accumulates over 128 years, the Gregorian calendar over 3 thousand 333 years, and the Novoyulian calendar over 40 thousand years).
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