If you’ve never attended an Eastern Orthodox Easter service…
…here are images for you.
Traditional Easter foodstuffs brought to church to be blessed.
Don’t forget to get your sausage blessed!
At one point, everyone leaves the service to circle the church three times while a madman pounds on the bells in the carillon — crazy loud. Crazy good.
Tree of eggs.
XPUCTOC BOCKPECE! Looks like Zuptock Bockpeace to me, but is of course pronounced nothing like that. And no one finds it funny. At all.
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Posted on May 6, 2013, in food, holidays, humor, personal, religion, Russian and tagged carillon, Russian easter carillon, Russian Orthodox easter, Russian orthodox easter food blessing. Bookmark the permalink. Leave a comment.
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