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An Italian Easter

by Dianne Hales | Mar 30, 2021 | Books, books on Italy, culture, Easter, history, Italian, Italian language, Italy, learning Italian, Religion, Sayings and expressions, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs

On my first Easter in Rome in the Jubilee year of 2000, I joined the throngs jammed into the massive piazza of St. Peter’s basilica. Pope John Paul II, bent with age, extended Easter greetings in dozens of languages, including Italian. “Buona Pasqua!” the Roman family...

Italy’s Traditional Holy Week Celebrations

by Dianne Hales | Mar 23, 2021 | books on Italy, culture, history, Italian, Italy, Language, Religion, Sayings and expressions, Sicily, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs

  La Settimana Santa (Holy Week) will be different this year, especially in Italy.  In years past pilgrims from around the world would travel to Italy to commemorate the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Every region celebrated with rituals that...

Easter in Sicily: The Passion of Christ

by Dianne Hales | Apr 5, 2019 | Books, books on Italy, history, Italy, Language, Religion, Sicily, Social behavior, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs

The Original Passione Passion Sunday, the fifth Sunday of Lent, marks the beginning of a two-week period sometimes called Passiontide.  The early Christians fashioned the word passio from passus, the past participle of the Latin for “suffer.”  I never...

Easter in Italy–and in the Italian Language

by DHales | Mar 30, 2018 | Books, culture, Food and Drink, history, Italy, Language, Religion, Sayings and expressions, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs

Buona Pasqua! Happy Easter!  On my first Easter in Rome in the Jubilee year of 2000, I joined the throngs jammed into the massive piazza of St. Peter’s basilica. Pope John Paul II, bent with age, extended Easter greetings in dozens of languages, including...
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