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"The Christian is not a homo religiosus, but simply a man." Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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when I was a little kid at some point I got upset with my parents because I didn't have a crucifix in my bedroom and they did- I was like why do YOU get to be safe from vampires??? you're okay with me getting my blood sucked???? so we took a little trip to the catholic store but the one closest to us was run by a group of nuns that had been moved here from romania. I got a little baby pink cross and this sweet old nun was like 'aww, is this a baptism gift?' and I was like no. I need to be protected from vampires. and she immediately got SO serious and was like 'this is the best one we've got, you'll definitely be safe' and since she was literally from vampire land I was convinced she was like, van helsing. like the whole time my parents had been laughing about how cute my fear was but she literally Knew dracula and was taking my concerns seriously I held this over my parents for so long lmfao

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my 5 yo son: this is a song about people and animals dying when they get too old! *harpsichord noises* and this is a song about silly fighting men dying in the war! *harpsichord noises* actually it's a cello song *cello noises*

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DA Tradiției - DA Maramureșului Photo by Mirela Badea

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Serbian Orthodox worshipers at an Easter service in Gracanica, Kosovo. (Credit: Armend Nimani - AFP)

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Shepherds selling goats the day before Easter in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Goat meat is a delicacy commonly consumed at religious feasts in Ethiopia. (Credit: Foodie International)

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HE IS RISEN!

Shots from the Ethiopian Orthodox midnight Easter service at the Holy Sepulcher 

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A march celebrating Orthodox Easter in Moscow’s Red Square (May 1918).  This would be the last big Orthodox celebration in the city for over seven decades.  Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow is in the centre of the second photo.  He would be arrested by the Bolsheviks in 1922, but not executed, probably because of his great influence.

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A priest blesses the faithful as they collect cakes and painted eggs for Easter at Kiev-Pechersk Lavra Church in Kiev, Ukraine. (Credit: Evgeniy Maloletka - AP)

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Orthodox Holy Fire ceremony the day before Orthodox Easter outside the Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem, West Bank. (Credit: Musa al-Shaer - AFP)

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A Ukrainian Easter egg, or pysanky. (Photographer/artist: Yaroslav Lyakhnovsk)

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Easter Procession, 1915, Boris Kustodiev

Medium: oil,canvas

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A traditional Easter procession of the Sorb community in Ralbitz, Germany, 2015. (Photographer: Matthias Hiekel - Agence France-Presse)

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South Korean Christians at a 2015 Easter service at Yeonsei University, Seoul, South Korea. (Photographer: Ahn Young-joon)

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Children at an Easter parade in New York City, United States. (Photographer: Tina Fineberg - Associated Press)

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An Easter sunrise service on a beach in Newport Beach, California, United States. (Photographer: Michael Goulding - Associated Press)

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An effigy of Judas burning in Madrid, Spain, during Easter. The practice of burning an effigy is pre-Christian and is meant to cleanse the year of bad things that have happened. (Photographer: Paul White - Associated Press)

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Girls painting Easter eggs in Guwahati, India. (Photographer: unnamed - Press Trust of India)