[Magdalen] Easter celebration

[Joseph Cirou]

-----Original Message-----
>From: Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com>
>Sent: Apr 7, 2018 3:54 PM
>To: "magdalen at herberthouse.org" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
>Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Easter celebration
>
>I wonder about the candles in the windows thing. It seems like they're big
>in Mennonite homes hereabouts.
>
>Getting ready for Pascha Vigil tonight and packing my basket. Mine isn't
>quite traditional, being that I didn't dye eggs and we don't do ham
>(definitely not on S/O's diet). I have bread, but not a babka...lemon curd
>cake instead. Polish sausage instead of Kielbasa, and a chocolate egg and a
>chocolate bunny. No cheese, but some butter I guess. I'm pretty
>excited....my first Orthodox Pascha as something other than a spectator.
>
>On Sat, Apr 7, 2018 at 1:33 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Lots of houses here also display candles in the windows year round.
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>> > On Apr 7, 2018, at 1:02 PM, cantor03--- via Magdalen <
>> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > Not a surprise.  However, these candles at the windows are in place year
>> round.  They
>> > are not just a Christmas phenomenon.   I notice the candles are stocked
>> and sold
>> > year round by such as Lowe's and WalMart.
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>> > David S.
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>> > In a message dated 4/7/2018 12:57:01 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>> chadwohl at satucket.com writes:
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>> > Electric candles in windows are ubiquitous in New England at Christmas.
>> > Definitely not a Slavic thing.
>>
When did you become Orthodox? aka pravoslavnie.

Joe