Umm…yes, a Monday and a Tuesday?

December 23rd, 2007

Two boring days are ahead of me and it’s the same every year. People laugh when I say that 24th and 25th December are the days made-in-heaven when it comes to maintenance on this site, Invisible Movement and the Serbian Lush site. And seriously, that’s what I’m going to be occupied with the next two days, apart from remembering to wish my friends a merry Christmas.

I doubt I’d ever explained this on this domain, so here I go again: please, do not wish me a merry Christmas. I’m Serbian. Serbia is a Christian country (though I’d state this because someone asked me if “I’m not dating because Muslim rules don’t allow that”), but our church is going with Greek old calendarists, Jerusalem Orthodox church, Russian, Ukrainian and Georgian Orthodox churches, as well as some noncanonised churches such as Montenegrin and Macedonian. In terms of religion, we never accepted the Gregorian calendar, according to which Christmas is celebrated on 25th December. And we might not accept it in future either, as we’re sticking with those “big names”.

According to Julian calendar, the name of which obviously comes from Julius Caesar, has been abandoned in all countries of the world in terms of real-life, but is still used in the above mentioned churches. The other Orthodox churches are using a Revised Julian calendar, the solar part of which is indentical to the one of Gregorian calendar. Ironically, although it was a Serbian scientist, Milutin Milanković, who proposed it; the Revised Julian calendar was rejected by Serbian Orthodox Church.

So, if you really want to wish me a merry Christmas, come back on 07th January 2008, because that’s when we’re celebrating it. As for Easter…that’s a whole new story.

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6 Responses to “Umm…yes, a Monday and a Tuesday?”

  1. Mira Buva on December 24, 2007 10:34 am

    It’s almost (almost!) funny to see how some people do not accept differences in world and society. And if they realize there’s something, no matter how small or insignificant, “different” about the way you live, they assume it’s too “weird” or “exotic” for them to understand.

    Speaking of which, Serbian Orthodox Church does celebrate Christmas on December 25th (following Julian calendar), but that is January 7th, if you follow revised calendar, which is used in so- called “real life”. I know Iva already said that, I just wanted to point it out again, to prevent “why your church thinks Jesus was born on January 7th” questions.

  2. Calítoe.:. on December 25, 2007 2:54 pm

    I cannot believe there are still people that find it that hard to understand with the amount of information about anything you can find in the Internet nowadays. The day you told me “I follow the Serbian Orthodox tradition” (or something like that) I got it: oh, all right, Julian calendar.

    Thanks for having enlightened us (both you and Mira on her comment) once again on this matter though. ;)

    I had to work on the 24th all the same. :p

  3. Julie on December 25, 2007 9:47 pm

    It’s ok, everyone’s wrong cause Jesus wasn’t really born in December anyhow. Happy site updating day :)

  4. Ivy on December 29, 2007 3:15 pm

    Hope you had fun updating! I’m not Christian, so Christmas is no more than a socially condoned super shopping spree for me. :)

  5. Fran on December 31, 2007 5:21 pm

    Happy Holidays all the same. I will be back on 07th January though. :P

    I don’t know either what’s wrong with people who can’t accept the fact that some people live the world and view it from another perspective. Some people are just too blind to see that there’s a huge world out there, and if you really think about it not even half of the world’s population share the same holidays. It’s a shame people can’t understand others more, I guess that’s why there are so many wars and so much generalized confusion.

    Anyways, I wished you happy holidays in general, not because you celebrate them in the same day as me, but because I care about you and thought of you during our holidays. :)

    Happy 2008 anyway! :)

  6. Fran on December 31, 2007 5:22 pm

    By the way… I haven’t been here in a while. I LOVE the new layout, it’s so cute!!! <333

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