WORLD NEWS FOR MONTENEGRO DIASPORA
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Christian believers who celebrate Christmas according to the Gregorian calendar are celebrating Christmas Eve tonight. Christmas Day, Christmas Eve or Christmas Eve is the name of the day before Christmas when the birth of Jesus Christ is celebrated. Its name comes from the word bdjeti, because on Christmas Day, as well as on Christmas Eve, one symbolically watches and waits for the birth of Christ.
On Christmas Day, the house is decorated for Christmas, the Christmas tree is decorated and cakes are baked. Traditionally, one fasts and does not eat meat, although the Christian church does not consider fasting obligatory.
Christmas Eve also represents a tree stump or log that was traditionally lit on the hearth before Christmas.
Christmas, the day when, according to tradition, Jesus was born, will be celebrated on Sunday, December 25 by the Roman Catholic, Protestant and Anglican churches, as well as by most of the Orthodox churches that have accepted the Gregorian calendar. Starting this year, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church also accepted the Gregorian calendar, so Christmas is celebrated tomorrow in that country affected by Russian aggression.
Along with Easter and All Souls' Day, Christmas is one of the three biggest Christian holidays.
The Christmas celebration lasts for several days - among Roman Catholics, until the feast of the Holy Three Kings, on January 6.
At exactly midnight, midnight mass will be celebrated in all churches.
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