“Dear Ambassador, let’s hope that next year we will be able to be there together,” Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias replied, whose origins are from Corfu.
Tag: Greek Easter
Koulourakia Paschalina are traditional Greek Easter biscuits, which are usually prepared a few days leading…
The Saturday before Palm Sunday is “Saturday of Lazarus” and on this day it is…
Margaret from Create Cook Share Growing up in Australia, my parents kept the Greek Easter…
The Akathist Hymn is a profound, devotional poem or chant, which sings the praises of…
Today the Greek Orthodox Church remembers the miracle of Saint Theodore the Tyro and Kolyva…
Today is Kathara Deftera, which means ‘Clean Monday’ and it is the first day of…
Kathara Deftera (Clean Monday) is the first day of Great Lent in the Greek Orthodox…
Today the Greek Orthodox Church commemorates Apokries, Meatfare Sunday, which is the last day of…
Today is Psihosavato, a day in a series of Saturdays set aside in the liturgical Greek Orthodox Calendar for the remembrance of those who have died. These days occur on designated Saturdays before and during the seasons of Lent and Easter: the first two are observed on the two Saturdays before Lent begins, the third Saturday of Soulscoincides with the first Saturday of Lent, and the fourth Soul Saturday takes place on the Saturday before Pentecost, the close of the Easter season. Saturday holds special significance in the religious calendar as the day on which the crucified Jesus lay dead in the…
Zoodochos Pigi, Bright Friday, is the first Friday after Easter, when the Greek Orthodox Church…
Greek police have arrested a man suspected of firing his gun in the air during…
For the 12th year in a row, the road outside the church of ‘Analipseos’ at…
Easter lunch is a wonderful excuse to celebrate the most important festivities of the Greek…
Koulourakia are traditional Greek biscuits that can be eaten all year round, however, they are…
Tsoureki is a sweet Greek Easter bread, which has a three-strand braid to represent the Holy…
On the afternoon or evening of Great and Holy Wednesday, the Sacrament or Mystery of…
Lentils are so nutritional as they contain a great source of protein, iron, fibre, magnesium…
by Rita Wilson Once every few years, Greek Easter falls the same week as “American…
The Feast of the Entrance of our Lord Jesus Christ into Jerusalem On the Sunday…