ROMANIAN EAST TRADITIONS By Balaci Luminita

Easter is the most holy feast of the christian calendar, followed by christmas. The first two days of easter are recognized as a legal holiday in most countries of christian tradition (including romania), with the notable exception of the U.S., Where just celebrated easter sunday, easter monday not Easter

Easter Egg An Easter egg is an egg dyed or bleached with drawings, especially red, the feast of the Christian Easter. Usually it is a boiled chicken egg, which traditionally is eaten or given.

Romanian Easter Customs Easter is the Romans, with Christmas, the most important of the year for each family is preparing long before the post held with such reverence. In the Orthodox Church meet people prepare for the Easter holidays "Lent" called "Lent" post that lasts 48 days

Religious easter poetry Enjoy the holidays, In this sunny day, Lord, holy to accompany, Divide the eggs and bread, From the heart of the choir sing, And worship Christ, He towering out of the tomb, And we expect him singing.

Romanian Orthodox Church (BOR) is one of the autocephalous churches of Orthodox Christianity. Romanian ethnic majority belong to the Romanian Orthodox Church, but the Church has believers of other nationalities (Roma, Ukrainians, etc..). Only in Romania, the number of Orthodox believers is, according to the 2002 census, of 18,817,975, so 86.8% of the population