Sunday, December 10, 2017

Φῶς Χριστοῦ φαίνει πᾶσιν


Posted by Byzantine, TX

5 comments:

  1. Byzantine, TXDecember 10, 2017 at 10:51 PM

    Please don't comment just to tell me you knew this already.

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  2. TimmyDecember 11, 2017 at 8:41 PM

    As a child attending a Baptist school I learned that "X-mas" was a shameful & unabashed attempt to take Christ out of Christmas. When I was older I discovered the above info, and as time went by I realized that much of what I was taught growing up was as misinformed as this error.

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  3. Matvey CassDecember 12, 2017 at 12:03 AM

    These types of abbreviations are all over our iconography too, and prayer books in Slavonic text shorten most words that appear often. Do they do this in the Church in other languages/alphabets like Greek, Georgian, etc.?

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  4. HanDecember 13, 2017 at 9:10 AM

    Perhaps we should push for "XPmas" to eliminate the confusion.

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