The issue of the church calendar in Ukraine currently divides the faithful, so the calendar reform of the church should be carried out jointly by the Greek Catholics and Orthodox.<\/p>\n
The view was expressed by the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Supreme Archbishop Sviatoslav (Shevchuk) of Kyiv and Halych.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that the issue of the (church – ed.) calendar for Ukraine today is really divisive so far\u2026 We have a lot of, I would say, such petrified conservatives who consider the calendar part of their religion\u2019s identity. And when someone dares reform the calendar, they have a suspicion whether it is the real Church. Traditionalists of this kind exist in all denominations. And I think it’s a good thing now that we’re all celebrating Christmas and Easter together in Ukraine. This is at least a starting point for the next steps,\u201d MIST<\/a> quotes His Beatitude Sviatoslav as saying.<\/p>\n The head of the UGCC noted that every year, the number of people convinced of the need to reform the calendar is growing.<\/p>\n “We do not yet have a critical number that would allow us to take some formal steps, but it is gradually rising. For example, when children celebrate by the Gregorian calendar, and their father and mother \u2013 by the Julian calendar, it raises questions for the family of how we should all proceed with this\u2026 I hope we will move towards this end,\u201d the Supreme Archbishop of Kyiv and Halych said, adding that the calendar reform is possible only in cooperation with the Orthodox brothers \u2013 the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The issue of the church calendar in Ukraine currently divides the faithful, so the calendar reform of the church should be carried out jointly by the Greek Catholics and Orthodox. The view was expressed by the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Supreme Archbishop Sviatoslav (Shevchuk) of Kyiv and Halych. \u201cI think that the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"telegram_tosend":false,"telegram_tosend_message":"","telegram_tosend_target":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5148,5142],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-81538","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-church-en","8":"category-news"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/df.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/dsc_3842-1.jpg?fit=1280%2C854&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}