EASTER IN OUR COUNTRY
Holy Week begins with Palm Sunday, which marks the end of Lent. blessed olive branches are brought into homes and twisted with the Crucifix
We follow the Christian liturgy
By Giotto “Cappella degli Scrovegni�
Friday is tradition, in many places in the streets, the Via Crucis. The Catholic Church practice fasting and abstaining from meat as a form of participation in the passion and death of her Lord. Many faithful, in turn, praying before the Blessed placed in the so-called tomb.
The Sunday of Easter the bells ring in celebration. This has expanded the Octave of Easter Sunday, the Church celebrates the fullness of this crucial event for a period of eight days, concluding the second Sunday of Easter, called since ancient times Sunday after Easter. John Paul II wished to dedicate remembrance of Divine Mercy.
At school
We make drawings, prepare Easter cards……….
It’s part of our tradition of preparing painted eggs to give to our family
We have Easter holidays from Wednesday before Easter to the Wednesday following
We eat Typical Easter cake of Rionero in Vulture: panar, r’c’latiedd, frisellini
Tipical italian cake for Easter are : squarcelle e casatielli
This delicious cake leavened dough traditionally closes lunch with the Easter chocolate eggs, because since the time most remote at the egg and dove were given a strong symbolic value of peace, love and rebirth. According to the Bible it was a dove, with an olive branch in its beak, a return by Noah after the flood universal happened to witness the reconciliation between God and his people.
Pastiera Napoletana
The pastiera is a typical sweet Easter of origin Neapolitan that is made with eggs, flour, sugar, ricotta, cooked corn, orange flowers
Easter chocolate eggs
The The Italian Italian word word to to wish wish Happy Happy Easter Easter is is Buona Buona Pasqua Pasqua