Christmas on Jan 7th
By gie2910
@gie2910 (407)
United States
December 24, 2010 10:17pm CST
Hey yall,
As a Coptic Orthodox, which is a part of the Oriental Orthodox Churches, and one of the original five holy apostolic churches, I celebrate on January 7th and not December 25th.
The reason is, we actually celebrate Christmas on Kiahk 29th which always fall with January 7th (at least for our present time).
Wouldn't you love to have ALL the Christians celebrating this amazing feats on one day?!
1 response
@headhunter525 (3548)
• India
25 Dec 10
It's nice to learn of this tradition. I have heard that certain churches celebrate Christmas on 7th Jan, but did not know that Coptic is one. By five original churches do you mean to say that Coptic church finds it connection with any one of the following churches of: Jerusalam, Alexandria, Antioch, Constantinople and Rome. Which one does Coptic church proceed from? I am sure it's not the one from Rome or Jerusalem.
Of course, in certain way of the churches in the world would trace itself to the church at Jerusalem which is the first one, and to Jesus Christ himself.
