Orthodox Easter is next Sunday but I thought it made more sense for me to post this today.
Last year, I wrote about Greek Orthodox Easter and how Greeks celebrate it. With a country on lockdown, it’s funny how few of these customs can be observed this year. We’ll be watching the midnight Mass from home, on Internet TV. We’ll be eating mageiritsa alone instead of sharing it with family. And countless lambs will be spared from participating in the traditional Easter feast as the main dish.
Which, in a sense, is probably for the best: all these customs can distract from the main message of the day, which is one of rebirth and, for us Christians, resurrection. The promise that death is not the end of life. And that seems kinda more important than shooting rockets at each other.
So, no matter how you spend today, Happy Easter, everyone!
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Health and happiness to you and yours Nicholas. Stay safe! 🙂
Thank you, Debbie! Hope you had a lovely one 🙂
A very happy and healthy Easter to you and yours, Nicholas. Thank you for your lovely and heartfelt Easter greetings to your friends and readers around the world, whether celebrating Easter, Orthodox Easter, or Passover. Stay home and stay well.
Hope you had a lovely one, Iris 🙂
Thanks, Nicholas. Happy Easter, belatedly, to you and your family.
Hope you had a lovely one, Michelle 🙂
Thanks, Nicholas and Happy Easter to you and yours. Stay safe. 🙂 — Suzanne
Hope you had a lovely one, Suzanne 🙂
Happy Easter Nicholas! The mageiritsa sounds delicious. Will look up a recipe!
Thank you! I’m not a big fan of giblets, to be honest, so we have a vegetarian version of that. But I hear even the “proper” one is quite nice 🙂
I am not religious, but I send my best wishes to you and your family for a peaceful and happy easter.
Pete. 🙂
Thank you, Pete! To you, too 🙂