Orthdox New Year

@frenki (1693)
Serbia
January 14, 2020 5:27pm CST
Maybe some of you didn't know, but today (14.01.) is actually 1st of January by Julian calendar, the calendar that Orthodox Christians use (not all now). Here it has popular name "Serbian New Year", tho it's connected to calendar not the country. Even tho we celebrate Christmas and other holidays by Julian calendar, we use Gregorian calendar over the year. I read that they plan to change it, and use Gregorian calendar but not sure is it true or when will it happend. Some other orthodox countries already changed calendar, like Greece. For me it will be weird to get used to it, I really liked that we have New Year first (by Greogrian calendar) and then Christmas (7th of January by Greogria) and then New Year again (by Julian calendar) :D I wrote discusion about this last year too, don't know if any of you read it then. Did you already knew this, and what are your thoughts? Happy New Year! (photo is mine)
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rakski
@rakski (156481)
• Philippines
15 Jan 20
so you like to have 2 new year? we have the Christmas on December 25, New Year Jan1 and Chinese New Year in February
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Norra Re
@frenki (1693)
• Serbia
15 Jan 20
Yes :D And I like how it goes, New Year, Christmas, New Year. You have it twice too then, do you like it too?
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rakski
@rakski (156481)
• Philippines
15 Jan 20
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Pandy (Andy)
@Pandy_ (800)
• Sydney, Australia
15 Jan 20
Very interesting, I did not know this before! Do you use the one calendar or both?
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Norra Re
@frenki (1693)
• Serbia
15 Jan 20
Both, on daily bases we use Gregorion, but for holidays we use Julian :)
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Pandy (Andy)
@Pandy_ (800)
• Sydney, Australia
15 Jan 20
@frenki Wow. Very intriguing.
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Pandy (Andy)
@Pandy_ (800)
• Sydney, Australia
15 Jan 20
@frenki Does it ever get confusing?
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Jeff Moffitt
@moffittjc (128835)
• Gainesville, Florida
15 Jan 20
You could always celebrate Christmas on 25 December, then New Years on 1 January, then orthodox Christmas on 7 January, and finally Orthodox New Year on 14 January. That would be really fun and you get to celebrate everything twice!
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Norra Re
@frenki (1693)
• Serbia
16 Jan 20
In north of the country many people do that way, since there are many Catholics there and many mixed families so they celebrate both. And also, they have school holidays from 24th, so as kid I was always so jelaous :D
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Jeff Moffitt
@moffittjc (128835)
• Gainesville, Florida
16 Jan 20
@frenki Does the Serbian government not make either the Catholic Christmas or the Orthodox Christmas a national holiday so everybody can have a day off?
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Norra Re
@frenki (1693)
• Serbia
16 Jan 20
@moffittjc We have day off on Christmas day, ofcourse, just depends which one you clelebrate :) But majority celebrate on 7th .
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