A traditional Greek Easter

This is the most important time of the year for Greeks, let me tell you! Easter is the most important time of the year for Greek orthodox Christians. If you go to church and let me tell you there are about 5 Greek Orthodox churches in Philly alone and the Greek community is huge! Easter is when Jesus rose from the dead and is the most important holiday for Greeks.

If you follow lent with us you don't eat meat,eggs, or any dairy at all for 40 days before Easter. Most people just do no meat for 40 days before, that's what I try to do every year, most years I follow but this year i broke it when i housed a Steak, was only because I was starving at 2 in the morning. Back to the Easter stuff.

This week is the week before Easter called Holy week. There is church everyday about 3 times a day so everyone can try to make it to mass. Saturday night before Easter Sunday everyone goes to church at around 10 pm and at 12 everyone is outside and we light a candle, but everyone has their own so it lights the place up. Over 200 people every year!

My family tradition is to then go home and we have table set for a full Meat infested dinner, at 2am when we get home from church we eat as much as we can because its been 40 days! So delicious.
Sunday we spend all day with family and roast a full lamb for 5 hours and feed 30 people with other delicious goodies.