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My friend Joe spoke of
the Christiaan tradition
of Fat Tuesday, Ash Wednesday
and Palm Sunday, to which
one could add Holy Thursday,
Easter Monday, Good Friday
and once every 7 years,
Christmas Saturday.
My friend Joe spoke of
the Christiaan tradition
of Fat Tuesday, Ash Wednesday
and Palm Sunday, to which
one could add Holy Thursday,
Easter Monday, Good Friday
and once every 7 years,
Christmas Saturday.
Christmas Saturday has long
Christmas Saturday has long fascinated me: 1976, 1982, 1993, 1999, 2004, 2010, 2021, 2027. There are gaps of six, five, and eleven years. In the early centuries of the Orthodox Faith, Easter's position with respect to the lunar calendar than prevalent in Judea has much more attestation in the Gospels than Christmas. So, while Easter is a moveable feast---and the Good Friday/Easter Sunday custom, that we are used to is heavily attested to in Apostle John's Gospel---Christmas is not as well documented (not even mentioned by Mark and John), and was therefore given a fixed date.
When my birthday falls on a Thursday, there will be in that year a Christmas Saturday. Because 1976 was such a significant year for me, personally, the synchronization of its dates in other years became important to me. What I found was that pattern I described above---gaps of five, six and eleven years. May I ask in what source you found the seven year gap mentioned in the penultimate line of your poem? I could not find such a gap: am I barking up the wrong tree? Lol, am I even in the right neighborhood?
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