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To: kosta50

This is a little off topic, but when does Christmas switch over to what is January 8th on the new calender? Isn't that supposed to be happening soon?


18 posted on 08/16/2004 8:11:40 PM PDT by getoffmylawn ("A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy." - Early Wynn, Chicago White Sox Pitcher)
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To: getoffmylawn
This is interesting.
19 posted on 08/16/2004 8:24:27 PM PDT by getoffmylawn ("A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy." - Early Wynn, Chicago White Sox Pitcher)
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To: getoffmylawn
I am not sure what you mean by Christmas switching over to January 8th (December 25th accoridng to the Old Calendar). The Old Calendar Churches (Russia, Serbia, Jerusalem, Mt Athos) celebrate Christmas in January.

Your post from the Russian Cathedral St. John the Baptist basically repeats wht I said: if it ain't broke, don't fix it. You have to understand that Pope Gregory did not just come up with a new calendar which he sent to all the Orthodox as well. In that message was the Filioque, purgatory and the like, which made the NC automatically repulsive to the Orthodox.

The last three Ecumenical Patriarch were very "ecumenical," one of whom was actually a Freemason. The current one studied in Rome. NC was an unnecessary introusion into Orthodoxy, because there was and there is no need to change the Calendar used by the Church from the old.

As long as the theology is the same, there is very little one can say to condemn such changes, but from the point of view of unity and the whole meaning of communion such changes are uncalled for and divisive.

That's why Russia's Church is under attack by the Vatican zealots -- Russian orthodoxy represents the largest body of Orthodoxy and is expressly orthodox in its approach and as such represents a big stumbling obstacle to ecumenical Masonic golobalist "Internationale." It is no wonder that Serbs, being traditionally as Orthodox, are the ugly red-headed bastard children with freckles in the eyes of the globalist sponsored world of the future.

23 posted on 08/17/2004 3:16:16 AM PDT by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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