Comments on: Calendar issues in early American Orthodoxy http://orthodoxhistory.org/2009/11/19/calendar-issues-in-early-american-orthodoxy/ The Society for Orthodox Christian History in the Americas Wed, 05 Jun 2013 14:16:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: OrthodoxHistory.org » Blog Archive » The first New Calendar Christmas for the Antiochians in America http://orthodoxhistory.org/2009/11/19/calendar-issues-in-early-american-orthodoxy/comment-page-1/#comment-1772 OrthodoxHistory.org » Blog Archive » The first New Calendar Christmas for the Antiochians in America Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:00:55 +0000 http://orthodoxhistory.org/?p=1355#comment-1772 [...] Orthodox in America were already following the New Calendar prior to its official 1923 endorsement. A couple of years ago, I wrote about how a Greek community in Columbia, SC arbitrarily adopted the New Calendar in 1914. [...]

]]> By: David http://orthodoxhistory.org/2009/11/19/calendar-issues-in-early-american-orthodoxy/comment-page-1/#comment-363 David Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:40:57 +0000 http://orthodoxhistory.org/?p=1355#comment-363 I continue to enjoy this website. What a wonderful work!

I think its a bit melodramatic to call the old calendar a martyrdom, but perhaps in that time it was more so (it can be no small burden though today).

Even the so-called new calendar is still significantly different and even if it were “reconciled” with the West, there would still be many feasts in the middle of the week when most faithful cannot participate.

I am not sure evangelism is best done from a position of historical excentricity, no matter how canonically authentic.

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