[MR] new vs. old

[Cecilia Jaeger]

e.georges at att.net wrote:
> 
> To further expound on Eogan's point about easter eggs --
> interesting lore from the Eastern Orthodox church has
> since grown up around the eggs, giving them a religious
> significance. (You gotta love a religion that hasn't
> significantly changed its liturgy since the 6th
> century....)
> 
> The Eastern Orthodox church's lenten fast prohibits all
> animal products, including eggs.  SO, the return of eggs
> at easter is something of a celebration.  But the red
> color is actually symbollic of the blood of Christ.
> 
> The Eastern Orthodox church tells the fable this way:
> when Mary Magdalene went back to the grave to visit
> Jesus, she found the stone rolled away, met the angel
> who said  Jesus had risen from the dead, and then went
> back to tell the others.  She left her basket, which had
> eggs in it.  When they came back, they found the eggs
> had changed color, symbollically bathed in Christ's
> blood.  In the Greek tradition, families still dye the
> eggs red on easter and each person takes and egg and
> taps it against others' eggs at the table.  The person
> whose egg goes the longest without breaking in this
> tapping contest is supposed to have good fortune during
> the year.

Hmm, interesting information. We call it "butting eggs"
and the winner gets eat the loser's egg. :-)

My mom is from an Irish Catholic background and my dad
is from a German Methodist background. 

Cassair Warwick (mka Ceci)
> 
> Probably not helpful, but it is interesting....
> 
> In Service,
> 
> Lucia Antony de Venise
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