Have a Blessed Ginatines day! As well as a blessed "Feast of Christ Entering the temple"


Yesterday, the regularly scheduled Valentines day was pre-empted by the "Fast of Jonah" aka "The Fast of Nineveh" (celebrating the the three day shadow/type of Jonah's being in the whale's belly of Christ in the tomb. And if your our sister Church, the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch, or there eastern nestorian cousins, and I think even the Maronites. I believe it even would pin point the founding of the Apostolic see/s out in such eastern places in the Persian empire. One of which actually is Nineveh).


So instead of doing the regular Valentines day, we did the fast day with certain Valentines day flourishes, and the remaining portion of Valentine's day has been transfered over to today. Which I proclaim as Ginatines day, which also coincides with the liturgical holiday of Christ entering the temple (to be circumcised/ dedicated).


But all of this grandstanding aside. This is all a setup for those questions you keep hearing "We fast on this day do you Copts do that?" So I' hopefully tomorrow, which is the Feast of Nineveh (The Fast of Nineveh, which should be a full three day fast,is only two days this year. Basically got pre-empted by Christ arriving in the temple. Which had happened because by the way they reckon these things this is one of those special irregular, leap-year like years) will get around to doing a little compare and contrast between "The Coptic Way" and the way those other Orthodox guys do things.