A Ukrainian Christmas

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a b Barbara Klumb (20 December 1978). "Spider Tale Spins a Web of Holiday Yore". The Milwaukee Journal: 1, 3. [ dead link] Among the singers was conductor Mykola Hobdych, founder of the choir. Like many Ukrainians, he plans to give money he would have usually spent on celebrations to the troops fighting at the front. If those of us on the Old Calendar just spent secular New Years day partying and feasting, and not even remotely trying to observe the fast, how can we be surprised if when the Nativity comes, the day seems to pass like an ordinary day, without any of the “Christmas spirit” we remember from the innocence of our childhood. We just put all our attention, joy, and focus, on what should be a normal day, the change of one numerical calendar date to another, which has no effect on our spiritual life. So why should we be surprised when we don’t feel the same spiritual joy on the true holy day? We’ve already had our fill. a b "The Ukrainian Tradition of Spider Webs and Christmas". Ukraine.com . Retrieved 6 December 2014. The first most obvious answer, to those wondering what happened to “the spirit of Christmas”, in these latter days, is to ask: “Well, how are you preparing for it?” If we prepare by attending as many church services as possible, observing all the coming feasts, practicing traditions such as Kolyadki and Christmas caroling, and ever so importantly, by fasting, this changes everything. Both spiritually and psychologically, you are preparing yourself for a holy celebration, and not a winter vacation of overindulgence.

When Is Ukrainian Christmas and Why - Ukrainian Lessons When Is Ukrainian Christmas and Why - Ukrainian Lessons

In Ukraine and Transcarpathia, many nations including Ukrainians, Carpatho-Rusyns, Romanians, Slovaks, and Poles, practice the similar Slavic Christmas tradition of gathering between Christmastide and Epiphanytide, during Svyatki, going house to house, throughout their villages, sharing the joy and good-news of the Nativity in the flesh, of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Kolyadki (Колядки, singular Kolyadka, колядка) comes from the Slavonic word Колѧда (Kolyada), possibly relating to the Latin kalendae, and likely the source of the Romanian word for Christmas carols– Colindă. And while Ukrainians have tried to emphasise a sense of normality in the run-up to Christmas amid the continuing crisis, most, like Oksana, described a sense of just trying to get by. In this article, I will present videos of some of the most popular and beloved Kolyadki, one of which enchanted even generations of Americans.On February 2, 2023, the Holy Synod of the OCU allowed and approved the procedure for blessing parishes and monasteries for the full use of the Revised Julian calendar, [19] and on May 24, 2023, to hold a meeting of the Council of Bishops, where the issue of calendar reform will be raised. [20] January 2020). "Christmas in Lviv: three dates of the family holiday". Радіо Свобода (in Ukrainian) . Retrieved 18 June 2023.

Christmas Carols of Ukraine and Transcarpathia The Enchanting Christmas Carols of Ukraine and Transcarpathia

Some traditions have managed to survive in the run-up to Christmas, including a carol service at St Sophia Cathedral with the Kyiv Chamber Choir.It means simply that our universal Christian ancestors celebrated Christmas for many days, not only on December 25 (January 7 on the new calendar). All these holidays are part of the Christmas season and all are due the proper attention. History Makers: Female Writers Dominate the 2023 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award Shortlist Our servers are getting hit pretty hard right now. To continue shopping, enter the characters as they are shown When is Ukrainian Christmas, and why? What a strange question! All Christians celebrate Christmas on the same day! Or do they?

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There is no better example on this theme, demonstrative of the enchanting and melodic beauty of Ukrainian, as the song Shedryk.Chosen as a LoveReading Star Book, it is worth noting that the publisher Sphere is making a donation to the Disasters Emergency Committee Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal on publication of A Ukrainian Christmas. And now in this carol, she sings to her baby and her Creator about what he already perfectly understands, that He will grow up, teach the world He created the truth, His own creations and children will then murder Him, and He will rise from the dead not to punish them, but still to save him, and of course, His victory is inevitable. Yet still...what incomprehensible emotions this must bring on a girl who most likely not being much older than eighteen, was already more honorable than the many-eyed cherubim and beyond compare more glorious than the sixed-winged seraphim. www.libussr.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 29 December 2016 . Retrieved 12 June 2021.