Geoffrey Rowell , Times Online
Extract: "...Christians have not always kept new year on January 1 -that was the Roman new year, and the Church was often very suspicious of it. Only in 1582 did Pope Gregory XIII's reform of the calendar mean that January 1 was generally adopted.
Jews kept the new year at the Feast of the New Moon at the end of September.
England began the new year with the Feast of the Annunciation on March 25, and adopted January 1 only in 1752. Germany began with Christmas, and France and the Low Countries with Easter. The Orthodox East keeps New Year's Day on September 1. " continue reading
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Thursday, January 10, 2008
The calendar of commercialism does not reflect our spiritual rhythms
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