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Dr. A. Cula
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Originally posted by paiktis22
I hate catholic easter. My romanian upstairs neighboors got really drunk and started arguing and making noise through 6 o clock in the morning.
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If you could tell they were romanians, they were probably orthodox. If so, they celebrate Easter at the same you do, if ever. There is also that thing christians celebrate one week before Easter, I don't remember it's name in english, something to do with flowers and Jesus entering Jerusalim. Since there are a lot of romanians named Florin, Florina and other variations of the romanian word for flower, it's a perfectly valid reason to throw a party. Perhaps one of your neighbours' name is Florin.
Also, I think your neighbours were abusing the thing. You're not supposed to make any excesses in this period, especially with regard to food and alcohol.
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Mar 2003
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Re: "pagan" easter, the only pagan connection of Easter is the name, which I believe was derived from the name of an ancient Teutonic goddess of spring. That's why my priest(I'm Orthodox too, BTW) always calls it Pascha, which is the correct name, etymologically related to "Passover" in some language or another. Believe it or not, the resurrection of Christ was a big holiday long before Hitler was born. I don't know where you're digging that up from. The east-west difference between celebration dates is due to the fact that, by the Western method of reckoning, it is sometimes placed prior to the end of Jewish passover. The Orthodox believe it is unacceptable to celebrate the resurrection of a man who, according to the bible, wasn't even dead yet. Remember, the Last Supper was the Seder, or however it is you spell the big feast at the end of passover.
With that said, Romania is at a peculiar east-west junction. A big chunk of the country belongs to the Uniate church, which acts mostly Orthodox but owes allegiance to the Pope, or some such. Kinda like the Malkites further east. It's quite possible that the Romanian neighbor is Catholic and Orthodox, in a funny way.
And it's perfectly acceptable in all traditions to feast to (moderate) excess at the END of holy week, i.e. Easter/Pascha. You're not supposed to be getting plastered and disturbing the peace, no, but more peacable revelry is actually customary. After the Rush service on Holy Saturday night, the Orthodox have Agape Breakfast, shoving down ham, sausage, cheese, butter, wine and extremely rich bread at 3 AM. It's great fun. I'm rather looking forward to it.
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Dr. A. Cula
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Originally posted by Big Crunch
Palm Sunday.
The palms used on Palm Sunday are burnt and usually used as ashes on the following Ash Wednesday. |
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21-04-2003 17:42
I just checked it with the CIA factbook and only 5.6% of Romanians are Catholic. The rest are Orthodox. Tough luck 
There's quite a lot of festivities and traditions going on throughout the Holy Week, but I don't have time to write them right now. It is Pascha here to BTW. I think, although I'm not sure, it derives from Hebrew meaning "Passover".
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