ORTHODOX EASTER CAME SEVERAL WEEKS after the Easter date on which most of the other Christian denominations celebrate...and the tradition for the Orthodox is to wait until midnight of Easter eve ...and just before midnight they darken the church to symbolize the tomb where Jesus was buried...then make a procession around the church with hand-held candles...then at midnight...suddenly the lights of the church come on...to symbolize Jesus breaking out of the tomb..He's Arisen !
....then people re-enter the church..and the Easter liturgy carries on...mostly in Russian (at the two churches I visited on Easter in Hollywood) and partially in English.. and it carries on until daybreak..
HAPPY EASTER, HE's ARISEN !
