Today is Christmas for Orthodox and Uniate Christians
January 7th, 2009 | 1 Comment
Christmas is celebrated on 7 January by Eastern Rite and Orthodox Christians who follow the Julian calendar. “Sleep Lord Jesus, sleep,” Aleksei Dozenko sings, picking up the melody of a Christmas carol that had floated in the consciousness of Orthodox Russia long before the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 drove the church underground. The seven-and-a-half-year-old Dozenko [...]