hi I’m Rebecca Raiden and welcome to
watchmojo.com visitors degrees during
mughelli of damata or great week will
realize this is the most important
holiday of the year great week refers to
the week preceding Orthodox Easter the
date of the Greek Orthodox Easter is
said based on a different calendar than
the Western world’s traditional
Gregorian calendar
that’s why Orthodox Easter and Christian
Easter rarely occur on the same day
many people practicing the Orthodox
faith fast for 40 days before Easter of
these 40 days one week is a complete
fest where no meat dairy fish or poultry
dishes are prepared or consumed Holy
Thursday marks the beginning of Easter
celebrations with the women of the house
preparing the traditional sweet buns
called Sarika and coloring eggs red the
egg is a symbol for the renewal of life
and red stands for the bloodshed by
Christ the festivities begin in earnest
on Good Friday when the church’s priest
or monk removes the icon of Christ from
the cross and wraps it in linen this is
meant to signify an ancient burial
rituals this shrouded Christ is then put
in a casket surrounded by white lilies
and taken through the town for residents
to lament his death at late-night Mass
on Holy Saturday people attending bring
with them unlit candles at midnight as
the priests announces Christos Anesti or
Christ is risen worshipers light their
candles from the church’s holy flame
which is said to have been taken from
Jesus’s nativity cave in Jerusalem
thus it from the burning candle is used
to make the sign of the Cross in the
doorway to protect the house for the
coming year
this ceremony breaks the fast an Easter
Sunday brings friends and family
together to feast
traditionally eating lamb on a spit and
the dyed red eggs before the eggs are
eaten however friends and neighbors
crack their eggs against one another
whoever ends up with a whole egg at the
end is considered the lucky one these
parties often last well into the night
with free-flowing Greek wine and ooze Oh
making it a jolly affair
[Music]
watchmojo.com visitors degrees during
mughelli of damata or great week will
realize this is the most important
holiday of the year great week refers to
the week preceding Orthodox Easter the
date of the Greek Orthodox Easter is
said based on a different calendar than
the Western world’s traditional
Gregorian calendar
that’s why Orthodox Easter and Christian
Easter rarely occur on the same day
many people practicing the Orthodox
faith fast for 40 days before Easter of
these 40 days one week is a complete
fest where no meat dairy fish or poultry
dishes are prepared or consumed Holy
Thursday marks the beginning of Easter
celebrations with the women of the house
preparing the traditional sweet buns
called Sarika and coloring eggs red the
egg is a symbol for the renewal of life
and red stands for the bloodshed by
Christ the festivities begin in earnest
on Good Friday when the church’s priest
or monk removes the icon of Christ from
the cross and wraps it in linen this is
meant to signify an ancient burial
rituals this shrouded Christ is then put
in a casket surrounded by white lilies
and taken through the town for residents
to lament his death at late-night Mass
on Holy Saturday people attending bring
with them unlit candles at midnight as
the priests announces Christos Anesti or
Christ is risen worshipers light their
candles from the church’s holy flame
which is said to have been taken from
Jesus’s nativity cave in Jerusalem
thus it from the burning candle is used
to make the sign of the Cross in the
doorway to protect the house for the
coming year
this ceremony breaks the fast an Easter
Sunday brings friends and family
together to feast
traditionally eating lamb on a spit and
the dyed red eggs before the eggs are
eaten however friends and neighbors
crack their eggs against one another
whoever ends up with a whole egg at the
end is considered the lucky one these
parties often last well into the night
with free-flowing Greek wine and ooze Oh
making it a jolly affair
[Music]
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