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• Happy Greek Easter •
Apr 12^th, 2023 at 10:45am

OR Orthodox Easter if you like....

Yep....it’s on. AGAIN!

This Friday is considered the REAL Good Friday (😩)

This Sunday is considered the REAL Resurrection (😩😩)

This is Australia where we celebrate multiculturalism and diversity (😩😩😩)

Anyone else here celebrating/not celebrating Easter this coming week because of their Orthodox heritage?

If so let’s share our traditions. May as well. i

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UnSubRocky Gold Member Offline Crocodile Hunter: Origins Posts: 24487 Rockhampton Gender:	Re: • Happy Greek Easter • Reply #1 - Apr 12^th, 2023 at 2:32pm Does a place like Melbourne have 2 Good Fridays and Easters?
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Sophia Gold Member Offline Posts: 8260	Re: • Happy Greek Easter • Reply #2 - Apr 12^th, 2023 at 2:38pm I bought Greek balaclava yesterday from Aldi’s. My Greek friend over the other side of Melbourne, would make me baclava! It’s a very dense nutty sweet.
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Reply #3 - Apr 12^th, 2023 at 4:26pm

Lisa Jones wrote on Apr 12^th, 2023 at 10:45am:

OR Orthodox Easter if you like....

Yep....it’s on. AGAIN!

This Friday is considered the REAL Good Friday (😩)

This Sunday is considered the REAL Resurrection (😩😩)

This is Australia where we celebrate multiculturalism and diversity (😩😩😩)

Anyone else here celebrating/not celebrating Easter this coming week because of their Orthodox heritage?

If so let’s share our traditions. May as well.

I didn't celebrate Easter last weekend, so I can't see why I would bother this weekend.

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Jovial Monk Gold Member Offline Dogs not cats! Posts: 45888 Gender:	Re: • Happy Greek Easter • Reply #4 - Apr 12^th, 2023 at 4:59pm Will Larry be absent from here for another blessed four days?
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Reply #5 - Apr 12^th, 2023 at 5:03pm

No, don’t celebrate Easter either. But had a lovely conversation with fave niece and great niece.

Might visit the big smoke Saturday and buy a couple extension cords, one internal, one for external use. Then spend the rest of Orthodox Easter sanding the paint where two plasterboards meet, taping up the join, plastering, sanding and painting: primer plus two coats a really nice just-yellow color (one of the Haynes warm whites range.)

The sanding, taping, plastering, sanding has to be done for EVERY plasterboard join in the house!

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Jasin Gold Member Offline Posts: 47295 Gender:	Re: • Happy Greek Easter • Reply #6 - Apr 12^th, 2023 at 7:53pm Hey! If it means more Public Holidays - I'm all for it!
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Reply #7 - Apr 12^th, 2023 at 11:31pm

Jasin wrote on Apr 12^th, 2023 at 7:53pm:

Hey! If it means more Public Holidays - I'm all for it! Cheesy

Yes!!!! 👌👌👌👌👌

We’re getting ready to dye the eggs different colours.

(For our kids it’s really all about remembering how they helped their grandma dye eggs during Easter...so it’s important I carry on the tradition).

I’ll take some shots of how our eggs turned out.

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Lisa Jones Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 39047 Sydney Gender:	Re: • Happy Greek Easter • Reply #8 - Apr 14^th, 2023 at 9:20am Jovial Monk wrote on Apr 12^th, 2023 at 4:59pm: Will Larry be absent from here for another blessed four days?
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Jovial Monk Gold Member Offline Dogs not cats! Posts: 45888 Gender:	Re: • Happy Greek Easter • Reply #9 - Apr 14^th, 2023 at 10:16am I am not 80. I never have posted all night. Your whole presence here is a lie, isn’t it Larry?
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Reply #11 - Apr 16^th, 2023 at 8:42am

Lisa Jones wrote on Apr 12^th, 2023 at 10:45am:

OR Orthodox Easter if you like....

Yep....it’s on. AGAIN!

This Friday is considered the REAL Good Friday (😩)

This Sunday is considered the REAL Resurrection (😩😩)

This is Australia where we celebrate multiculturalism and diversity (😩😩😩)

Anyone else here celebrating/not celebrating Easter this coming week because of their Orthodox heritage?

If so let’s share our traditions. May as well.

Happy Greek Easter everyone !!!

Except it’s technically Orthodox Easter.

And we’re NOT Orthodox.

So why are we even bothering to celebrate it?

Well that’s a good question!

My family consists of mixed even exotic European cultures all blended together in beautiful Australia.

As Protestant Christians we’re well aware of the fact that ANY Easter date/celebration taking place today (or last week for that matter) has absolutely nothing to do with Jesus Christ.

In fact the 2 (incorrect) dates assigned for Easter reflect nothing more than yet another well entrenched division btwn the Roman Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Church. And all this took place many centuries ago. On the other side of the globe.

So bringing this topic back to Australia and 2023... I guess we as a family celebrate Easter TWICE a year because for us Easter is all about celebrating life and God’s love towards us as mere mortals. And as such we choose to celebrate it as many times as we like.

Cheers.i

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