DEAR NICHOLAS,
My personal thanks to you for this thread it is a great help for those of us celebrating our first Great and Blessed Pascha.
The articles and recipes are a welcome addition to my "Favorite Links" as it will be accessed almost as much as I check my mail!
My thanks again!
The Unworthy,
Juvenaly
Dear Nicholas,
Thanks for the articles!
(Yes, Macedonians are Slavs - and so was old Philip-One-Eye and his prodigy of a son, Alexander. Macedonians remain Slavs, though most of the Western world considers them "Greek," in its ethnic rather than it's national sense. It is an error).
Shall we consider that an oops?
In Christ,
Makis
In the Russian tradition, the faithful carry home the "Thursday Fire" - the candles that we hold during the reading of the 12 Passion Gospels on Holy Thursday night. The flame is used to light the lampada in the family's Icon Corner where it remains burning for the whole year.
Does this mean that at some point during Holy Week (or whenever) our icon corner light is supposed to be extinguished?
Noah
Last Sunday, I signed up at church to make a dessert for the breaking the fast meal, after Easter liturgy. I wasn't at all sure what I would make, then I happened to see the April issue of Gourmet magazine. There is a really nice article on the "foods of Russian Orthodox Easter." There are recipes for kulich, paska, roasts, and uncommon stuff like watercress salad with quail eggs! I found a recipe for poppy seed shortbread, and I'm really excited to make it. I hope it turns out, I'm not much of a cook!
Bumped up for those preparing their Pascha Baskets today.
Plus here are further recipes: http://eat.epicurious.com/gourmet/menus ... aster.html
