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Red Eggs for Easter |
| Section: CULTURE / HERITAGE |
| Author: William Woys Weaver |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 4/1/1989 |
| Size: 2,200 Words, 13,324 Characters |
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For the Greek Orthodox, Easter is the most dramatic and most intensely felt of all church observances. By contrast, in the Latin church of the West, Christmas has assumed precedence. And in the United States, where commercialization has secularized religious holidays in general, the Thanksgiving-Christmas-New Year's triumvirate of occasions for eating and merrymaking has placed enormous strains on the Greek-American community's efforts to maintain its spiritual and cultural identity. This is particularly true among second-and third-generation immigrants, who no longer consistently "eat Greek" and who may have intermarried with other faiths.
Easter falls on April 23 for Greek-Americans this year, since the Greek Church reckons time by the old Julian calendar established in 46 B.C. New...
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...ir cultural identity. Among adults, the move from urban Greek neighborhoods into the suburbs has also taken its toll. Yet the Greek Easter has remained a focal point for reaffirming the Greek-American identity, and as long as the Greek church plays a central role as interpreter and transmitter, then the outlook for the future remains as good as for the red egg that has survived many rappings.
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