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**TSVIDeo** · 09-02-2007, 09:23 PM

To muddy the waters still further, I have read somewhere that the church year originally started later in September, around Holy Cross time, and that 1st September was a Byzantine civic date, used for calculating (I think) military service. (Hence the importance of Holy Cross in many matters to do with, for example, the lectionary.) Does anybody know if this or something like it is correct, and if so, how exactly the original church new year was calculated? (I am merely curious...)

I agree with Nina that I would be very happy if the jurisdiction I belong to would revert to the Julian calendar, pending some decision of the whole Orthodox Church together.

09-02-2007, 09:23 PM	#10
TSVIDeo Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 416 Senior Member	To muddy the waters still further, I have read somewhere that the church year originally started later in September, around Holy Cross time, and that 1st September was a Byzantine civic date, used for calculating (I think) military service. (Hence the importance of Holy Cross in many matters to do with, for example, the lectionary.) Does anybody know if this or something like it is correct, and if so, how exactly the original church new year was calculated? (I am merely curious...) I agree with Nina that I would be very happy if the jurisdiction I belong to would revert to the Julian calendar, pending some decision of the whole Orthodox Church together.
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