Happy Easter!!

yes, Happy Easter! Jesus has risen!

Thank You for thinking of us, This is the highest point in our year... celebrating our Pascha and the resurection of our Lord...... Thank You

I wish all a Great Pascha also.

Hristos a-nviat! (Christ is risen)

I've been away over the Paschal feast but am now back and would like to join with Joannicius in thanking those who wished us a happy Easter - even though I don't use that term myself. It really is the most wonderful, and most important, time in the Orthodox Church's year.

James

IacobPersul said:

Hristos a-nviat! (Christ is risen)

I've been away over the Paschal feast but am now back and would like to join with Joannicius in thanking those who wished us a happy Easter - even though I don't use that term myself. It really is the most wonderful, and most important, time in the Orthodox Church's year.

James

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I feel embarassed by not even knowing your customs; happy Easter.

IacobPersul said:

Hristos a-nviat! (Christ is risen)

I've been away over the Paschal feast but am now back and would like to join with Joannicius in thanking those who wished us a happy Easter - even though I don't use that term myself.

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Yeah, I got that impression from what Joannicius wrote too. Thanks guys, for being so understanding of my cultural ignorance.

IacobPersul said:

It really is the most wonderful, and most important, time in the Orthodox Church's year.

James

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Well I do hope that Pascha this year was everything that you guys hoped it would be!

Adevarat a-nviat!

I love Pasca (the food , I mean!) !

Lady Crimson said:

Adevarat a-nviat!

I love Pasca (the food , I mean!) !

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I love Pasca too. I make some every year and this one was no exception. I also make cozonac (though usually at Christmas time - both cakes are such hard work so I don't tend to make them together!). My wife also made sarmale (cu varza acra) though I have to make the varza acra myself as you just can't get it in Britain. It takes a long time but it's worth it. We had a real Romanian Easter. Luckily we also live close to the only Romanian Orthodox church outside London (though there is a Romanian monastery in Shropshire).

I basically consider myself to be an adoptive Romanian nowadays, making Romanian food, speaking the language, loving the history and, of course, being a member of the Romanian church. When I speak, I apparently sound like a Bucovina peasant - my wife laughs and calls me 'taran', but what can you expect when you learn it from listening to co-workers who mostly come from villages? The one thing I still can't abide is Romanian folk music, though - the singers always sound like tortured cats.

Anyway, glad to see a Romanian here and I hope you keep posting.

James

ah, i love cozonac too. My mother and grandmother, being moldavian, cook like angels :162:. Delicious! Oh, sarmale, I didn't eat any this easter . Oh, well, i'll have to wait for Christmas.

"though I have to make the varza acra myself as you just can't get it in Britain"

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yeah, you don't see many pickled cabbages in Britain now'adays.

I apparently sound like a Bucovina peasant - my wife laughs and calls me 'taran',

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I can just hear you.

The one thing I still can't abide is Romanian folk music, though - the singers always sound like tortured cats.

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yeah, I don't like the vocal music either...I guess it's an aquired taste. I like the instrumental romanian folk music with the violins and acordeons and nai flutes. That's the good music!