This Easter was similarly celebrated as last year’s one, meaning a bunch of friends, all Romanians, meeting at Andrei and Otilia’s, cooking together, attending the midnight Inviere church ceremonial, consisting of lighting candles, followed by coming back home to a big meal that starts off with colored Easter eggs and lamb, amongst many other traditional goodies. This year’s Inviere was the funniest ever, especially since one of us was the photographer, Paul, an American (he is in the next to last picture). He observed quietly, somwehat fascinated by the innovation of what was happening, while some others were making jokes in the middle of a fervently Christian Romanian crowd. Somehow, a Romanian Easter in New York doesn’t feel quite like the Easter I know it, and by this I mean the feeling of it, but I won’t deny it was a very special good time.
Hristos a Inviat, we Romanian say, which stand for Christ has risen!
Pictures are made by Paul de Luna, the talented Mihai Badoiu, and the first one is Adrian Aronescu’s – all friends.
