So what do you do...celebrate twice? Celebrate both with equal wild abandon or not?
This evening I am putting together Pascha Basket #1 for the blessing of baskets at hubby's church tomorrow at noon.
To tell the truth I am feeling kinda creepy. In goes the chocolate, the lamb, the eggs and cheesecake...
...and 'my' Holy week hasn't even started yet.
Just sayin'... feels weird.
3 comments:
My situation is different since I'm the only practicing Orthodox under my roof. Husband doesn't care. That just leaves both sets of parents. Most years I don't celebrate Easter with my parents. If I do, I try not to *cheese* anyone off. His family is even more awkward now that his parents have returned to the Uniate church & his brother is officially Protestant. I feel isolated & it's always exhausting.
Last year was less awkward b/c Easter was the same. I hosted his parents while his brother was out of town. I just didn't see my parents. My parents are very understanding of my conversion to Orthodoxy & that I can't attend every gathering.
In years past my husband would celebrate Western Easter quietly. He's not one to make a lot of pomp-and-circumstance out of Holy Days anyway. When we were both Prot. Easter was a quiet affair anyway because we would almost always get up early for the sunrise service, so not much changed for him. Sometimes he would come with us for Pascha services - leaving before Liturgy started. This year he's been attending church again with me and he is planning to celebrate Pascha only with us.
Like Janelle, my Dh isn't an active believer, so he is really ok with celebrating when I celebrate.
And, by celebrating, I mean getting a basket and making my Pascha dinner ooey, gooey, and cheesy for me ;) He also made an artichoke dip for me to take to the Agape Vespers feast.
Christ is Risen!
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