Christ is born!
This sort of thing unfortunately happens all the time in the Church of the Nativity.
By the way, there are really two Orthodox Christmases—the New Calendar (December 25th) and the Old Calendar (January 7). (Jan 7th in the Gregorian Calendar is Dec 25th in the Julian Calendar).
We New Calendar folks will celebrate Theophany on January 6th, so there will be Orthodox Christians who follow both calendars in church that day. I will also—Lord willing—be in church the night of the 6th for Serbian Christmas Eve (Badnje vece).
Pascha (Easter) is the same for both old and new calendar. In 2012 it will be April 15th—one week after Western Easter.
Sounds to me like when the Messiah shows up these dumbass chirrens are in for a good whuppin’.
Mir Boziji - Hristos se rodi (I hope that is right is has been almost 10 years) a few days early.
BTW, love the tagline.
Merry Christmas to you.
My mother’s people always referred to January 7 as “Old Christmas.” They were/are Moravian and some Lutheran. Of course, the Orthodox who originally proselytized the Moravians are by now a dim memory, known to few outside seminarians and scholars. Many no longer even realize they’re the spiritual heirs of Jan Hus after that.