Saturday, 20 April 2019

Lazarus


Saturday 20th April
Greek Orthodox church
The Day of Lazarus

The day before Palm Sunday when Christ raised Lazarus from the dead.


Kids are on holiday since Friday.   The school children went to  church on Friday morning and most of them took communion.  The older ones then took off to enjoy their 2 weeks of freedom. The younger kids had to return to finish their day's lesson.

Two years ago the younger girls made paper Lazarus dolls.  They're a bit too old for that now.  





Our windowsill
Some spring colour
Nothing to do with Lazarus
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  1. wisps of words20 April 2019 at 10:53

    Unfair to young kids!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-)

    So Greek children get the week before Orthodox Easter, and the week after, off...

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    1. local alien20 April 2019 at 13:31

      Two weeks at Easter but they don't have half term and other holidays.

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  2. Yael20 April 2019 at 11:01

    Here, too, the children are on Passover vacation, two and a half weeks, part of the time I have to look for creative solutions for the free days.

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    1. local alien20 April 2019 at 13:32

      Thank goodness my kids have grown a little and amuse themselves now, usually with their friends....run wild in other words!

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  3. angela20 April 2019 at 15:50

    Its Aussie Easter this weekend here. So everyone is on a long weekend holiday
    Because we have two Easter’s neither one feels right.
    That’s ok. I can’t eat chocolate anymore and as I have no children living here everything loses it magic I guess

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    1. local alien21 April 2019 at 01:41

      I bet the greek easter is best! Gotta be with Greeks around!

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  4. Cathy20 April 2019 at 15:56

    Yes like Angela no chocolate here - plenty in the shops though!
    Is there all the hoo haa and chocolate overload in Greece or is like years gone by with hand painted eggs ?

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    1. local alien21 April 2019 at 01:43

      We dye red eggs on Holy Thursday, also blue and green and yellow and sparlky. That has become s bit commercialised but not all that much chocolate around. The easter eggs here are big hollow things, not very exciting

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  5. Amy20 April 2019 at 20:14

    Happy Easter to you. I enjoyed time with my family this morning, been a good weekend.

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    1. local alien21 April 2019 at 01:44

      Glad your easter was enjoyable. Hope the weather was too!

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  6. Cro Magnon20 April 2019 at 21:07

    My grandsons return to London today, and back to school on Tuesday. They were blessed with perfect weather until last night; we were eating outdoors (under cover) and it suddenly poured for about 10 mins.

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    1. local alien21 April 2019 at 01:45

      Pity the holidays are over so quickly. You were lucky with the weather at this time of the year. Most of Europe seems to have btter weather than us at the moment. Saw a photo of my nephew and neice is London, in short sleeves

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  7. northsider 21 April 2019 at 01:03

    Love the snail. Wish they could all be made of porcelain.

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    1. local alien21 April 2019 at 01:46

      Wouldnt it be nice. My garden is full of the darn things. About time we ate some of them

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