As always on Christmas Eve, I feel a little bit uneasy because all my friends in Ukraine who are either Orthodox or Greek Catholic celebrate Nativity according to the "old calendar." For them, Christmas comes on what the secular calendar calls January 7th. When I was little, growing up in Ukraine, I heard people say on December 25th, "alright, today's the Catholic Chrismas" (or, sometimes, "the Polish Christmas"). Even today, I am not sure whether folks in Ukraine realize that quite a lot of people who are genuinely Orthodox have switched to the "new" calendar, so that the "secular" Deceber 25th is the Christmas (or, as the Orthodox say, the Nativity) day!...
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