Let me/google explain: Orthodox Christmas Day 2026 Many Orthodox Christians annually celebrate Christmas Day on or near January 7 to remember Jesus Christ's birth, described in the Christian Bible. This date works to the Julian calendar that pre-dates the Gregorian calendar, which is commonly observed. So where has this date difference come from? It's thought to date all the way back to the year 325 AD, when a group of Christian bishops met to agree a standard date for the church's most important holiday, Easter. To do so, they decided to base it on the Julian calendar, a calendar which Roman ruler Julius Caesar had adopted in 46 BC - basing a year on the time it takes the Sun to go around the Earth. However, the calculations overestimated the length of the solar year by about 11 minutes. As a result, the calendar and the solar year became increasingly out of sync as the centuries progressed. Fasting for me becomes more strict. You can’t have meat or dairy, so mainly vegetarian dishes. It a different le way for different family’s; but that’s the traditional. Orthodox Christmas Day is on January 7 every year, and isn’t it an exciting opportunity to celebrate another Christmas just as the New Year kicks off? Can you believe that Christmas was originally celebrated 13 days after December 25 (the day we all celebrate it on today)? In the Julian calendar — a much older calendar used before the current Gregorian calendar — Christmas was celebrated on January 7. The Orthodox Church still uses the same old calendar to celebrate Christmas Day. Orthodox Christians celebrate by going to church and other traditions like burning frankincense to commemorate the Wise Men’s gifts to baby Jesus.
My calendar is different, so my Christmas is different from yours (most likely unless you’re like me :gasp:) BUT ITS CHRISTMAS EVEEEEEE!! :} And so, I’ll post a Christmas haul on my main: @starmoon-sun Hopefully i get some good stuff. Hope this explanation is good enough for you guys to understand. Press the green flag for a snoopy Christmas gif. This Took me approximately 5/6 stray kids songs.
