O Christós anésti

Hi,welcome back to my blog. As you know Easter is here and in the Greek Orthodox church it is the biggest thing thing they celebrate. I was baptised Greek Orthodox but last year converted to being Catholic.  Because I am a quatre Greek we still do some of the Greek traditions. For example, If lockdown was not happening and the Greek Orthodox church  was still open we would have gone to church. One of the sayings there is that is always said at this particular Mass is O Christós anésti. It is said by the priest and means Christ has risen. Some other traditions are painting eggs red to symbolize the blood that christ spilled for us and after the service we celebrate with easter bread. A sweet type of bread had on easter. Me and Mum would like to try and make it but we may not be able to get the yeast. Something that is not a tradition but I like to do anyway is to make trifle. One of the components in trifle is a Greek cake that we call chocolate olive oil cake. It sounds a bit gross but it is delicious and tastes good in trifle too.

Do you have any traditions that you do on Easter if so what and why?