A Ukrainian Christmas

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There was a meeting of the Primate of the OCU with the Father and the Primate of the UGCC". OCU (in Ukrainian). 24 December 2022 . Retrieved 24 December 2022. in Ukrainian) "Рада зробила 25 грудня вихідним днем". BBC Україна. 16 November 2017 . Retrieved 16 November 2017. Kylymnyk, Stepan, 1955–1969; Ukrainskyi Rik u Narodnykh Zvychayakh v Narodnomu Osvitlenni [ Ukrainian Year in Folk Customs from Historical Perspective], Winnipeg, Toronto From 1st July 2021, VAT will be applicable to those EU countries where VAT is applied to books - this additional charge will be collected by Fed Ex (or the Royal Mail) at the time of delivery. Shipments to the USA & Canada: The following translation and transliteration is found on Wikipedia, and the original Ukrainian along with the musical notes is in the video.

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Ukraine’s first Christmas since the February invasion has left a country utterly transformed with residents waking on Sunday once again to a nationwide air raid alarm.It is impossible to listen to this soulful carol and truly understand the words without crying. This carol describes the Birth of Jesus, with the Mother of God singing him a lullaby about his fate. She sings to him that he will grow up and go into the world, and with time, people across the entire world will believe in him. She tells him he will save the world from death, but not before He, her newly born Son, would himself die on Golgotha. On 28 June 2023 President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, submitted to the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's national parliament) a draft law removing the Julian Calendar Christmas holiday on January 7 and confirming the December 25 date as the sole day of celebrations, reflecting changes in the OCU and UGCC calendars. [26] [27] Parliament passed this law on 14 July 2023 with 241 deputies voting in the affirmative. [28] Zelensky signed the law on 28 July 2023. [29] [30] Sviatyi Vechir (Holy Evening) [ edit ] Nativity scene.

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

These days, every shop window tells you that it’s the holiday season! Thanksgiving is in October or November, and then there are Christmas and New Year’s, right? Nope, not in Ukraine. While Shedrivki are not Christmas Carols in the technical sense, they are still part of the broader Christmas season holidays, or Svyatki, which is celebrated organically as part of the same tradition. Even if Shedryk is not, in its original Ukrainian form, a proper Christmas Carol, but a Shedrivka, it’s English version, Carol of the Bells, is most certainly is a Christmas Carol. At a rehearsal for that performance, the choir was practising Shchedryk – the tune known in English as the Carol of Bells – a song from the kolyadka tradition popularised a century ago by the composer Mykola Leontovych and then adapted with new lyrics in English. Of course manger scenes are especially for children. And there is no need to explain why—the little ones are transported in their minds and heart to the manger of the Infant Christ in Bethlehem, not only at the festal services but also by gazing upon these mystical manger scenes.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. Orthodox Church of Ukraine Decides to Celebrate Christmas on Dec. 25". Get the Latest Ukraine News Today - KyivPost . Retrieved 18 June 2023. This carol describes with such joy, that these (specifically three) holidays (Nativity, Saint Basil, and Theophany) are coming to greet us, (literally “as guests”).

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For many, however, it has been a story of relentless conflict as heavy battles raged and Russian continued its shelling of civilian centres, including the southern city of Kherson where 10 people were killed on Christmas Eve. While Ukrainian is most closely related to Belarussian and Carpatho-Rusyn than to Russian-proper and Polish, one may note that it is perhaps the softest most gentile sounding of these languages. While Russian and Polish may certainly be more worldly, scientific, and formal, Ukrainian sounds naturally like a song. An interesting anecdote is while most Slavic languages are in their respective languages grammar system a masculine word ( yazik), Ukrainian is considered grammatically feminine ( Mova). HISTORICAL DECISION: THE UGCC IN UKRAINE SWITCHES TO A NEW CALENDAR". Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church . Retrieved 19 July 2023. Voropai, Oleksa 1958, Zvychai Nashoho Narodu [ Customs of Our People], Ukrainske Vydavnytstvo, MunichThese holidays were by no means simply excuses to party or take off work; in fact, preparing for them with fasting during Advent is a labor in itself, as is the labor of making these elaborate Christmas meals. Especially for poor villagers in the distant Carpathian Mountains, or in the shivering steppes, this was all extremely costly in their scarcity for them to then simply share with family and parishioners. a b "The Ukrainian Tradition of Spider Webs and Christmas". Ukraine.com . Retrieved 6 December 2014. About a hundred parishes of the Romanian national minority in Ukraine, which are part of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, have always celebrated Christmas on December 25 according to the Revised Julian calendar, just like the Romanian Orthodox Church. [4] This beautiful illustrated book introduces readers to the culture, traditions, reflections and celebrations of the Ukrainian people during Christmas. Originally published in 2020 in Ukraine, to immediate acclaim, this English language version includes a new Foreword written by the authors following the invasion of Ukraine by Russia in February 2022

Ukrainian Christmas by Yaroslav Hrytsak, Nadiyka Gerbish A Ukrainian Christmas by Yaroslav Hrytsak, Nadiyka Gerbish

Zelensky Introduces Proposed Draft Law to Change Holiday Dates". Get the Latest Ukraine News Today - KyivPost . Retrieved 29 June 2023. Believe it or not, this Ukrainian carol is one of the most famous and beloved Christmas carols of all time, though it goes by a different name in English.Zelensky submitted to the Verkhovna Rada a law on changing holiday dates". babel.ua. 28 June 2023 . Retrieved 29 June 2023. The host is warmly greeted and told “Good evening” (Dobry vechir/Добрий вечір), which is a term that again, to us, may seem like a common greeting, but in fact these words are spoken with genuine blessing and sincerity. Many Kolyadki contain the greeting “Good evening”, which in folklore is associated with the Nativity, as it is truly a most Good evening, as the song continues, the Son of God was born. This entire song can teach us to study the importance and meaning of words; and when we see how important the meaning of these words are, we understand how seriously the people celebrated these holidays. It won’t be like before the war. We’ll be praying for our soldiers and volunteering both on 25 December and 7 January.” Despite not technically being a Christmas carol, but rather a New Years Carol for Saint Basil’s Day, one can still find similar themes here. The swallow, the first bird of spring proclaiming the birth of the new lamb to the joy of the master of the house, and declaring that all will be well in the coming spring, the season of rebirth is quite symbolic. The Nativity of Christ, the sun of righteousness, is of course celebrated on the winter solstice, as dark cold days of winter get warmer and brighter, when the sun allegorically overcomes the night, and in all of this we can certainly see Christian meaning. Now with the over-emphasis on New Years to replace Christmas, which the godless soviets forced onto the pious Triune Russian Orthodox people, and the way Christmas in the West has become materialized into a consumerist-materialistic holiday, one can see that godless, valueless (cultural) Marxism is by no means dead—it just took on a different form.