Pasqua & Pasquetta
Italians celebrate two days of Easter. Sunday is Pasqua and Monday is Pasquetta. While they sound like friends of Squanto, they’re really two days of much-anticipated holiday for the Italians.
I don’t know if I see the Italians generally happier than right around the Easter holidays. It’s Springtime. The region is blooming with all kinds of flowers. The weather is warming up beautifully. And most likely, the Rome-followers are happy that Lent is finishing and they can start eating chocolate again or watching TV.
However, there is one thing that I really like about Pasquetta. Family. All day Monday, families are out everywhere. They’re riding bikes together, trimming the garden, having a bbq, walking through town, playing in the parks etc. No stores are open. Nobody’s coming to fix your sink or hot water heater on that Monday… never. Just wait. Rest. It’s family — because we’ve always done it this way. Now that’s a redeemable part of Italy, taken directly from the weekly Creation planbook of Israel, and a superior example to my earthly nation.
Here’s a picture of our little girl Jessi at our Easter picnic with our Church. She was guzzling Frizzante water and my good buddy Jay from Germany snapped this shot.
Ok Mom, there’s her Easter dress. It came complete with a hat for little girls “who like to wear hats and not throw them at their brothers.”
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