Greek Easter
My family celebrate Greek Easter because we are Greek. Well I’m half Australian and half Greek but l like being Greek. What do we do the night before Greek Easter? We stay up until midnight. At about 11:00 we go to the church. You can get a candle from the church but l get my own special one.
You go inside the church and a lot of people kiss the icon (which is a religious picture of God or Jesus). I don’t kiss it because that really gross l just bow to it. You can go buy a little that only costs 50c – $1.00. So you put your candle in the sand and then you can either go back outside and wait for the Priest do come out and sing this song called Χριστός Ανέστη (xristos anesti). Just when the Priest is about to sing the song someone starts a flame. The person shares the flame with one person and then that person shares it with the next person until
everyones got there candle lit. The. After the Priest sings his little song everyone greets everyone and says xristos anesti which means happy Easter.
The next day we get to together as a massive extended family and we get our own boiled eggs we dye them any colour we want, but the traditional colour is red. We dye the lots of different colours but we mainly dye them red. What we do with the boiled eggs? Each person In The family will have a egg everyone one knocks each other’s eggs against their egg and the person who’s egg survives the longest wins. I think Greek Easter is the best Easter because it’s really fun spending fun time with your family.
Here’s my cousins remix of the xristos anesti song. Type this into your browser and you will find the song.
What’s your favourite thing to celebrate?
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