Christ is Risen!
Three days at church, many hours of brass polishing, many hours of other things, a procession around the church carrying a twelve foot banner (three times around with Christ icon on banner), swapping censors between five priests and a deacon, shouting "Sicherlich er ist aufverstanden!" and "En verdad resucito!" at the top of my lungs while in the altar (hey, every else know the easy ones
), two hours of cutting marinated sirloin and approximately... 10.75 hours of sleep between Holy Friday and right now; all the while, saying "Christ is Risen" to people in languages including but not limited to, Gaelic, German, Spanish, Latin, Tlingit, Russian, Greek, Arabic and English.
And after all this laboring, what do I earn by the time I leave the afternoon feast?
-1 2L bottle of Kvas
-2 full to go boxes of food (mostly rice with lamb, pork and other meats)
-1 to go box of desert
-1 Pascha basket with root beer, three bags of beef jerky, and assorted goodies
And last but not least...
Two raw sirloin steaks marinated with soy sauce, olive oil, red wine and garlic. Each steak is at least sixteen ounces and were marinated with the other steaks for a full twenty-four hours
(I'm not worthy! I'm not worthy!)
Wow.
Only 364 more days until I will do this all again! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
