Is it Catholic to have a dinner/feast on Easter Day?

[halogirl]

Yeah he’s really hands on. We share up the housework equally and everything - very lucky. He wouldn’t dream of just sitting there.
Phase 1 : I peel and cook the vegetables. Sometimes I will season the meat and sometimes he will. When the meat is half an hour from ready he will make the gravy, drain the meat, and then carve meat and plate it all up. Seamless !

 

[Sarcelle]

Ham is the meat we usually associate with Easter.

This is what we have in my family for Easter.

 

[dochawk]

In the Ukrainian Eastern rite, all the foods that were given up during Lent would be put into an Easter basket and blessed after the Easter service.

So do Ruthenians (at least the ones I’ve fallen in with).

We moved Pascha liturgy outside a few years ago (we have another altar outside, and can rent chairs for more seating!), which led to everyone already aout there with the baskets, and then someone started sharing or showing off, and at this point, we all share and eat so much that we no longer cook a significant meal at home!

(but this year . . . )

Oh, and in the East, the week following Easter is “Bright Week.” It isn’t that fasting is dispensed for Bright Week, but the it is prohibited!

My friend is from another generation and I think her hubby pretty much watches sports on the telly while she has to cook everything.

It’s not that my wife thinks that it’s fine for me to be doing something else.

It’s more that she’s territorial, and doesn’t allow men in her kitchen . . . (well, for installing and repairing appliances, sure . . . )

 

[JanR]

I remember three big family get-togethers each year – Christmas, Easter and Thanksgiving. We would either go to the homes of relatives, or they would come to our home. Each year, it was different. And exciting.

Not much of that, anymore, since most of them have crossed over. I kind of miss all of that, but life is life.