Our Orthodox Church today celebrates highly and with great festivity and joy! Once Christmas arrives on December 25, we enter a new liturgical period. The major ...

Jan 5, 2024 · All Eastern Orthodox agree that Dec. 25 is the date of Christmas, or the Feast of the Nativity, as they call it. The question is whether Dec. 25 ...

Jan 6, 2023 · For much of the Western world, Christmas is celebrated on December 25, according to the Gregorian calendar. Yet in a distinction that dates ...

Christians have historically celebrated this day (and the weeks leading up to it, known as the “Christmas season”) by greeting others with the words, “Merry.

It ranks second, only to the greatest holiday, the Resurrection of Jesus, which is the largest and most central celebration of Orthodox Christianity.

Jan 7, 2024 · People in the Ukrainian and Russian Orthodox faiths will have 12 traditional dishes during Christmas Eve, representing Christ's apostles - they ...

Many Orthodox Christians annually celebrate Christmas Day on or near January 7 to remember Jesus Christ's birth, described in the Christian Bible.

Jan 7, 2024 · More than 200 million Christians around the world are associated with Orthodox Churches and most celebrate Christmas on 7 January as they follow the Julian ...

Dec 11, 2023 · For Orthodox Christians who follow the Julian calendar, Orthodox Christmas takes place on January 7. Additionally, the twelfth day of Christmas ...