When Orthodoxy Meets "The Matrix"

Agent Smith on the Closing of the Church Year:

Everything that has a beginning has an end.

Agent Smith on the Beheading of John the Baptist:

The purpose of life is to end.

The Church Year begins with the Birth of the Mother of God on September 8 and the Conception of Saint John the Baptist on September 23, and ends with the Repose of the Holy Virgin Mary on August 15 and the Beheading of John the Baptist on August 29.

This is inherited from Judaism, where the Ecclesial New Year began on the first day of the seventh month, Tishri, the equivalent of September-October, as it does until today in the Eastern Orthodox Church.