Saturday..... almost done
The ceremony of the Holy Fire took place again without incident. The Light is on its way from Jerusalem in the Presidential plane. All is well with the Greek Orthodox world. Every home will have a candle lit from the sacred flame which appears 'miraculously' every Easter in the church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Holy Land.
K cut up all the innards of the Easter lamb, heart, kidney, lungs, liver, spleen, intestines and I have started the mageritsa. This is the soup made from innards, lettuce, dill and rice, thickened with egg and lemon juice.
There's just the midnight service to attend, or maybe just watch on TV. There are live broadcasts from the Cathedral in Athens and from the Patriarchal Cathedral in Konstantinople (Istanbul to you).
Once 'Christ is Risen' there will be fireworks, much kissing of cheeks and a rush home to end the Lenten fast with family and friends, eating the Easter soup, cracking red eggs and quaffing a few glasses of wine
First though we have to refresh the cross in the doorway protecting our household from the evil eye
Our distant neighbours across the ravine have gathered from Athens for the Easter holiday. They've been celebrating, loudly, from early afternoon .
7pm and it's gone quiet. They must be sleeping it off. I hope they don't go down for the midnight mass and return at 2am refreshed and ready to continue an all night revel
So everyone
Happy Orthodox Easter
Happy Easter celebrations to our Serbian Orthodox family in NZ
And keep safe kiwis!! Our NZ family are in the eye of Cyclone Vaianu
Hope your family are safe. I love all the wonderful traditions you have in Greece.
ReplyDeleteIt certainly was blowing hard in the Bay. The Serbian part of the family are celebrating Easter so all is well
DeleteXristos aneste.
ReplyDeleteWith al those crosses I’m pretty sure your well protected.
Spit three times just to make sure lol
Enjoy the celebrations
Crosses, spits, garlic and crossed fingers lol Everything helps
DeleteXristos Anesti! Vaianu has certainly been damaging up north. I hope your family is safe.
ReplyDeleteI saw a video of the wind. Boy was it blowing hard. They are all safe. Now time to celebrate
DeleteYour house looks well protected now, other than against FIRE!
ReplyDeleteYes, you're right. We have to be careful with all these candles at this time of the year. It's easy easy to singe hair too when you're in a crowd of people holding lit candles
DeleteSounds like a very much fun celebration and the evil eye stays far away.
ReplyDeleteWe need all the protection we can get
DeleteThat Easter Week seems to have whizzed by. I suppose we also do a lot of eating and family time too if we stop to think about it. Ours has less of a religious bent to it though.
ReplyDeleteJust the last day of lamb and wine left. Then we can all relax. Till the 23rd when it's ST George's day. A family name
DeleteHappy Easter to you all. You have earned it.
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