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Happy New Year to everyone here. May 2016 bring you all you pray for, and may The LORD bless you in all you do.
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Well - if you want to be THAT way about it - the New Year does not start until April 9th this year.Hey wait a minute; we're liturgical, the New Year started in advent!!
Happy New Year everyone!
Exodus 12:2 This month shall be the beginning of months for you; it is to be the first month of the year to you.
18 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty-first day of the month at evening.
That is the month of Abib, aka Nisan.
Exodus 34:18 You shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in the month of Abib you came out of Egypt.
Esther 3:7 In the first month, which is the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, Pur, that is the lot, was cast before Haman from day to day and from month to month, until the twelfth month, that is the month Adar.
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Oh sure; but I didn't say OT Jewish calendar new year; but the new year for the (liturgical) church is the first day in Advent!
The "new year" changes all the time. If you're an accountant, New Years is October 1st. An early Protestant or very rural Catholic; April 1st. April Fools has it's origins when Pope Gregory XIII replaced the Julian Calendar, which starts April 1st, with his own "Gregorian Calendar", which begins January 1st that we use to this day. Some protestants and non-Christians rejected it, including a handful of pro-reformation countries, like England (who didn't move to the Gregorian Calendar until the 18th Century), and even some extremely rural devout Catholics who, quite simply, hadn't heard that the Pope changed anything. Those who celebrated New Years on April 1st were called, you guessed it, April Fools!
The "new year" changes all the time. If you're an accountant, New Years is October 1st. An early Protestant or very rural Catholic; April 1st. April Fools has it's origins when Pope Gregory XIII replaced the Julian Calendar, which starts April 1st, with his own "Gregorian Calendar", which begins January 1st that we use to this day. Some protestants and non-Christians rejected it, including a handful of pro-reformation countries, like England (who didn't move to the Gregorian Calendar until the 18th Century), and even some extremely rural devout Catholics who, quite simply, hadn't heard that the Pope changed anything. Those who celebrated New Years on April 1st were called, you guessed it, April Fools!
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