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Post by Clotilde on Mar 25, 2018 16:31:36 GMT -5
Here is my challenge: Consider your ethnicity, research and share one Eastern tradition from your background and share it. It can be new to you, something you do at home, but give us some information and history about this custom or practice. For example: I learned that it is custom to hit others with a pussywillow in some Eastern European countries and say: It’s not me hitting you, It’s the willow hitting you, In a week it will be Easter, Soon you will have a red egg. www.pysanky.info/Ukrainian_Easter/Traditions.html(I'm not Ukrainian but thought this was fun because well, you get to hit someone. I bet kids really like the custom.)
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Post by Voxxkowalski on Mar 25, 2018 17:38:17 GMT -5
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Post by Voxxkowalski on Mar 25, 2018 17:41:37 GMT -5
Getting baskets of easter dinner food blessed...egg "cheese" called sidetz. On Good Friday evening keeping a silent vigil over night over a representation of Our Lord in His Tomb. My favorite thing.
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Post by Clotilde on Mar 25, 2018 17:44:21 GMT -5
Getting baskets of easter dinner food blessed...egg "cheese" called sidetz. On Good Friday evening keeping a silent vigil over night over a representation of Our Lord in His Tomb. My favorite thing. I Googled that, it looks neat.
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Post by Voxxkowalski on Mar 25, 2018 17:46:08 GMT -5
Getting baskets of easter dinner food blessed...egg "cheese" called sidetz. On Good Friday evening keeping a silent vigil over night over a representation of Our Lord in His Tomb. My favorite thing. I Googled that, it looks neat. It is sublimely meditative.
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Post by wenceslav on Mar 25, 2018 19:18:32 GMT -5
The tradition (in Slovakia at least) was usually young boys chasing girls with specially knotted willow branches that had a ribbon on the end. Easter Monday was one of the most favourite days of the year for young boys and the least favourite for young girls .
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Post by Clotilde on Mar 25, 2018 19:56:37 GMT -5
The tradition (in Slovakia at least) was usually young boys chasing girls with specially knotted willow branches that had a ribbon on the end. Easter Monday was one of the most favourite days of the year for young boys and the least favourite for young girls . Hahaha! That's so funny. Thanks for sharing!
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Post by Clotilde on Mar 25, 2018 21:52:58 GMT -5
I was just reading we have a Latin Easter greeting. I only knew about this custom among Eastern Catholics until recent years?
I have always known we would say: Christ is Risen! Answering: He is Risen Indeed!
Before it fell out of practice: Surrexit Dominus vere! Answering: Deo Gratias!
How many of us remember the Easter greeting for our fellow Catholics?
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Post by chestertonian on Mar 25, 2018 22:37:59 GMT -5
My family is Jewish so no Easter traditions on my side
mywifes family isn't very close and they are dysfunctional.
So not much other than Easter baskets
Easter egg hunts sound fun but all the local ones are the week before Easter which is odd. Also all the sugar.
Right now my wife and I are both in the hospital I'm hoping I can at least be home for Easter. Very little chance of my wife getting home by then
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Post by chestertonian on Mar 25, 2018 22:42:38 GMT -5
It seems very odd to celebrate on Easter if we still haven't done enough penance on this life to cancel out our sins... I feel weird having any joy now knowing that when I die it will only get worse because of purgatory.... Suffering is even worse than it is in this life. considering the fewness of the saved there's a good chance I'll end up damnedanyway but if not I'll probably be cruisin' for a bruisin' in purgatory so now all I can do is just wait for punishment
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Post by Clotilde on Mar 25, 2018 23:07:45 GMT -5
My family is Jewish so no Easter traditions on my side mywifes family isn't very close and they are dysfunctional. So not much other than Easter baskets Easter egg hunts sound fun but all the local ones are the week before Easter which is odd. Also all the sugar. Right now my wife and I are both in the hospital I'm hoping I can at least be home for Easter. Very little chance of my wife getting home by then What nationality? Maybe you can find something Catholic from the country from which your family originates. That was pretty much the challenge. I'm Calabrese, and I've learned a lot about Southern Italian customs, we never did them because our family lost the Faith. Nevertheless, it is cool to know about our regional customs.
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Post by Voxxkowalski on Mar 26, 2018 3:37:52 GMT -5
It seems very odd to celebrate on Easter if we still haven't done enough penance on this life to cancel out our sins... I feel weird having any joy now knowing that when I die it will only get worse because of purgatory.... Suffering is even worse than it is in this life. considering the fewness of the saved there's a good chance I'll end up damnedanyway but if not I'll probably be cruisin' for a bruisin' in purgatory so now all I can do is just wait for punishment Pessimism is not a Catholic virtue. The very core message of the Ressurection is hope and Joy. Stop wallowing in your misarys man. Itll do you a world of good!
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Post by francis on Mar 27, 2018 16:14:52 GMT -5
I was just reading we have a Latin Easter greeting. I only knew about this custom among Eastern Catholics until recent years? I have always known we would say: Christ is Risen! Answering: He is Risen Indeed! Before it fell out of practice: Surrexit Dominus vere! Answering: Deo Gratias! How many of us remember the Easter greeting for our fellow Catholics? Just catching up on this forum as my Lent has been unexpectedly in the form of manual labour (which is hard on nigh 70 year old bones) Had to comment on this post from Clotilde. Having found my way back to the Catholic Church recently, last Easter was my first Catholic Easter for over 55 years and yes my priest greeted us "Surrexit Dominus vere" to which we responded "Deo Gratias". He then explained the custom of greeting our fellow Catholics with the preceding. Great to see this custom is not confined to my chapel.
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