The rituals leading up to Easter are the same. The solemn Good Friday processions. The Holy Saturday blessings of foods that were avoided during Lent. The liturgies accompanied by processions, bells and chants.
Many Ukrainian Americans are observing Orthodox Easter this Sunday, but they're finding it difficult to be joyful when their ancestral homeland has been torn by the Russian invasion
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