[Wada]

Seeing as you celebrate tomorrow all the best for you and yours and may your New Year be blessed.

[DrCaleb]

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[martin14]

Merry Christmas PF !!

[raydan]

Can't he celebrate Christmas at the same time we do?

Merry Christmas PF... hope you have a full bottle of Grey Goose.

[BartSimpson]

Merry Epiphany, PF!

[PostFactum]

Thanks guys, few topics like that and at the nearest time, I'll have to send 20 litters of borshch and 10 kilo of purohu to Canada or another way I'll look rude:-D Few hours ago I had a holy supper with 12 dishes, tomorrow I'm visiting friends and relatives'(reminds your boxing day:-)) and will
make a few photos of the fest city, will post here;-). I wish you a merry second Xmas!))) Христос народився;-)

[PostFactum]

And have a good day:-D

[raydan]

He's so excited, he had to post it twice.

[PostFactum]

raydan wrote:

He's so excited, he had to post it twice.

I'm standing outeside on -10 with mobile phone, and I've edited:-D

[wildrosegirl]

All the best to you and yours!

[bootlegga]

Merry Christmas!

[fifeboy]

My family and I are going to the Saskatoon Farmers Market on Sunday for a traditional Ukrainian Christmas dinner. The 12 traditional dishes of Ukrainian Christmas will be served and a local Ukrainian group Pavlychenko Folklorique Ensemble will be providing entertainment. It should be a good time.

Merry Christmas PF.

[Canadian_Mind]

Merry Christmas PF!

Why the different date and traditions, care to explain?

[Brenda]

Merry Christmas PF!!

You Ossies (Eastern Europeans) are still crazy, celebrating something like this at your own time and pace

[ShepherdsDog]

Canadian_Mind wrote:

Merry Christmas PF!

Why the different date and traditions, care to explain?

The Orthodox/Eastern Europeans types go by the old Julian calendar, while the rest of the world uses the newer and more accurate Gregorian calendar. As for the different traditions, each country has their own Christmas traditions with related religious symbols. The 12 meatless dishes(fish is one of them) represent the 12 disciples of Christ. We used to have the 12 days of Christmas in the West, birth to epiphany(when the magi found Christ), but no more.

When and where I went to high-school, it was an unofficial holiday for Slav and non Slav alike. A choir from school would often go to the old folks home and sing traditional hymns and carols as well as serve the traditional orthodox meal to the elders. Unfortunately the fish was often sucker....yeeech.