In Russia, the collection of signatures has begun for postponing the New Year to January 14
The collection of signatures for postponing the New Year celebration from January 1 to January 14 was announced on the official website of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. The authors of the appeal point out the contradiction when large-scale New Year's festivities in an Orthodox country fall during the strict period of Advent Lent.
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“We cannot change the calendar, but it is quite possible to move the celebration of a secular holiday to January 14. Everyone will benefit from postponing the holiday. Finally, everything will fall into place: first Christmas, then New Year. All organizations will submit annual reports without haste by January 5th. Schoolchildren are also happy: the second quarter will be equal to the third, because the winter holidays will be the same two weeks, but from January 6 to 20 (from Christmas to Epiphany),” the petition says.
During the week, only 300 people voted “for” this proposal, but more than a thousand voted “against”.
It is interesting that the initiative of the communists was positively assessed by Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin.
“It is proposed to correct the mistake made by the early Bolsheviks. Our “rightists” may be surprised that it is in communist circles that a truly conservative idea is born. But why don’t they offer this themselves? By the way, why not return to the pre-revolutionary calendar? Muslims and Jews consider it possible for themselves to maintain a calendar that differs from the Western one, and no one died from it. Why can’t we still get rid of our psychological dependence on the West in the calendar issue?” – Chaplin wrote on his Facebook page.
Let us recall that in 2012, Deacon Andrei Kuraev came up with the opposite idea - to move the celebration of Christmas to January 1.
“Maybe Christians should agree among themselves to combine the celebration of Christmas and the New Year? Let Christmas be on January 1st. There are no canons that would prohibit the Orthodox from shifting the celebration of Christmas (the canons only speak about the time of celebrating Easter). Once the Church voluntarily changed this date - in the middle of the 4th century,” Kuraev wrote then.
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