Happy Easter everybody! Yes, that's right. Romania, being a predominanently Eastern Orthodox country, follows the Eastern Orthodox Calendar. As such, Easter falls on a different week than in the West. Sunday was our Easter Sunday. Some of the traditions in Romania are to decorate eggs (like those above) and everyone greets eachother (and I do mean everyone, even at stores and restaurants) with Christ is risen, to which you respond by saying, He is risen indeed! Just think, in today's America, you would probably lose your job for greeting someone in such a way, but not here in Romania :) Other traditions are to eat cozonac, a jelly, sweet roll pictured below and in the evening before the resurrection, people stand with candles at night outside the church to symbolize that even though there was darkness, darkness could not extinguish the light. At Easter we also eat lots of lamb! So Happy Easter. Rejoice, He is Risen!
Happy Easter everybody! Yes, that's right. Romania, being a predominanently Eastern Orthodox country, follows the Eastern Orthodox Calendar. As such, Easter falls on a different week than in the West. Sunday was our Easter Sunday. Some of the traditions in Romania are to decorate eggs (like those above) and everyone greets eachother (and I do mean everyone, even at stores and restaurants) with Christ is risen, to which you respond by saying, He is risen indeed! Just think, in today's America, you would probably lose your job for greeting someone in such a way, but not here in Romania :) Other traditions are to eat cozonac, a jelly, sweet roll pictured below and in the evening before the resurrection, people stand with candles at night outside the church to symbolize that even though there was darkness, darkness could not extinguish the light. At Easter we also eat lots of lamb! So Happy Easter. Rejoice, He is Risen!
3 comments:
He is Risen Indeed! I hope you had a blessed Easter Mihai. We miss you, love you, and pray for you regularly.
Rejoice, our Savior is ALIVE!
Hayden & Aaron
You're right, they would probably be fired in the States for saying something like this. You should have seen what they did at the Miss USA pageant to a contestant from California who didn't give the politically correct "answer" there on gay marriage. She was sabotaged. However, few realize she holds the SAME view as President Obama. May the Lord help us all!
Miss ya,
Kyle
Amen! Jesus is ALIVE. Thanks for taking the resurrection seriously and going out and declaring HIS love and righteousness throughout the world.
God Bless,
Laura Peterson, Calvary
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