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The Greek Feast of

Feasts
 

  • Honoring the Sacred Passion
    Honoring the Sacred Passion
  • Dying eggs in the red of Jesus Blood
    Dying eggs in the red of Jesus Blood
  • Honoring the Holy moments of Savior's Sacrifice
    Honoring the Holy moments of Savior's Sacrifice
  • Watch the Nature Mourn in Colors
    Watch the Nature Mourn in Colors
  • Kneeling our Souls to Jesus
    Kneeling our Souls to Jesus
  • Receiving the Light of Human Hope
    Receiving the Light of Human Hope
  • Sensing the Miracle
    Sensing the Miracle
  • Celebrating Resurrection all over Greek countryside
    Celebrating Resurrection all over Greek countryside
Honoring the Sacred Passion
Honoring the Sacred Passion

Walking around Greece on #GreekEaster Day,  in towns or the countryside,  
you will come across people roasting entire lambs in their back yards.
 You will instantly be invited to join them. 
You'll be offered  wine, and roasted meat and will be welcomed to join this celebration.. Traditional Easter in Greece celebrations


Easter Day in the world  April 16, 2017 



Greek Easter, Living the Miracle 

 
 

When Th Hymns Touch The Sky...


The "Great and Sacred" Easter is the feast of feasts, the predominant glorious moment of Orthodox Christianity. It is the great day that brings more joy, more exquisite brilliance and glory, showing  the divine light that radiates through the deified human nature of the risen Christ... 

...
and
Holy
Light 
Touches
Earth
 

The Holy Fire is the most renowned miracle in the world of Eastern Orthodoxy. 


It has taken place at the same time, in the same manner, in the same place every single year for centuries. 

 

No other miracle is known to occur so regularly and so steadily over time. 


The ceremony, which awes the souls of Christians, happens in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, the holiest place on earth, where Christ was crucified, entombed, and where He finally rose from the dead.


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Leftist government MP calls #HolyFire "a thing", asks for the cost of its transport to #Greece

SYRIZA MP blasts tradition of transport of Holy Fire to Greece


Leftist SYRIZA MP Makis Balaouras criticised the Greek state for continuing to adopt the tradition of receiving the Holy Fire from Jerusalem during Easter as a head of state.

“An object, the fire, the Holy Fire arrives. It is something that does not happen in a civi...

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The Holy Light arrives from Jerusalem at the international airport of Eleftherios Venizelos in Athens, Saturday, a little after 8 pm. on the PM’s airplane and was greeted with honours reserved for state leaders.  Defence Minster Panos Kammenos, Deputy Foreign Minister John Amanatidis and government spokesperson Olga Gerovasili, escorted the transfer of the Holy Light fro Jerusalem to Greece.... find more  

 

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Rita Wilson

by Rita Wilson
....We do lamb, sweet cookies, and deep red. The lamb is roasted and not chocolate, the sweet cookies are called Koulorakia and are twisted like a braid, and our Easter eggs are dyed one color only: blood red. There is no Easter Egg hunt. There is a game in which you crack your red egg against someone else’s red egg hoping to have the strongest egg, which would indicate you getting a lot of good luck.MORE  

Holy Week, for a Greek Orthodox, means you clear your calendar, you don’t make plans for that week at all because you will be in church every day, and you fast... 

Rital Wilson

 

Greek Easter 2016 

 Tsipras during a visit to the Greek Navy frigate Adrias on Easter Sunday.

Tsipras, who was accompanied by Defense Minister Panos Kammenos during his visit 







Christianity and Symbolism 

Muslim Prayer to be held by Erdogan and his government at Hagia Sophia on Good Friday


Erdogan, who has favored Islamic claims in Turkey, will visit the Hagia Sophia—a building that was originally a Christian church—on the day when the Christian world observes Good Friday.

Turkey’s President Recep Erdogan has announced his in...

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The Faithful Russia 

The year 2016 marks the 1,000-year anniversary since the first Russian settlement on Mount Athos in Greece, which will be visited by President Putin on his first day of Arrival in Greece 
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A Russian warship Pytlivy traversed Istanbul’s Bosphorus on May 26 amid tight security measures

A number of Russian military personnel were seen by the Turks to be lined up on the deck,  many of them woman officers, who did the sign of their  cross, Greek media report,  while passing from Aghia Sofia , the former Greek Orthodox Christian Church and symbol of the Constantinopole, Istanbul. The gesture was interpreted by Greek  media as a commemorating symbolic gesture for the 29th of May, the day of the conquest of Constantinople in 1453 by the Ottoman Empire and its conversion into a mosque.