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Happy Easter, The Greek Orthodox Way

Nicholas C. Rossis's avatarNicholas C. Rossis

Happy Easter, everyone! Orthodox Easter is next week, mind you, but I thought it made more sense for me to post this today.

I know that, for most of you, Easter is about bunnies dropping chocolate eggs all over gardens (not to be confused with another, less sanitary kind of bunny droppings). For Greeks, though, it’s much, much more.

For example, rockets.

You may remember from last year’s Easter post how big a part fireworks of varying bang play. Then, there’s mayiritsa, skewered lamb, white candles, and red eggs.

No, I’m not making it up. Neither is it an April Fools’ Day joke.

Easter Day

Greek Easter red eggs | From the blog of Nicholas C. Rossis, author of science fiction, the Pearseus epic fantasy series and children's book Image: Pixabay

As Birmingham Live explains, the fasting of Lent continues throughout Holy Week, which ends on Easter Sunday. Preparations begin on Holy Thursday. Easter bread (tsoureki) is baked and eggs are colored with red dye. Red is the color of…

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Viv Drewa is a Michigan native who has enjoyed reading and writing since 1963. Though she studied medicinal chemistry at the University of Michigan, her passion has always been writing. She had been awarded third place for her nonfiction short story about her grandfather's escape from Poland. Later, she rewrote this story and was published in the "Polish American Journal" as "From the Pages of Grandfather's Life" and has republished it on Amazon.com as a short story. Viv took creative and journalism courses to help in her transition to fulfill her dream of becoming a writer. She worked as an intern for Port Huron's 'The Times Herald", and also wrote, edited and did the layout or the Blue Water Multiple Sclerosis newsletter "Thumb Prints." She also has a business promoting authors. Owl and Pussycat Book Promotions. Viv, her husband Bob and their cat Princess, live in Port Huron, Michigan.

3 comments on “Happy Easter, The Greek Orthodox Way

  1. Thank you, Viv! Hope you had a lovely one 🙂

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