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Show a" H fw tv td us Xproté Kat ayrédwy Gerth eoor FO Foyk atdGagnat HICAGO'S quaintest, strangest, and most solemnly impressive Easter service will be held next Sunday, when the Greeks of the city will celebrate the arising of the sung to its conclusion, each one beginning exactly as the other ends They love to sing, these Greeks Incense is again burned and then- "All generations, O, my Lord, offer hymns to his burial," sings the priest, the people again taking up the solemn monotone of the chant. little farther on flowers are strewn, the priests swinging them tn their arms as they do the incense Christ The Easter of the Greek calendar falls a week later this year than accordng to the calendar accepted by other 1urches-and the " Kiss of Peace" will be exchanged oncluding happily the impre ive services that las through the rhe Passion Kiss of and dn the Greek Orthodox church is the completion of the ceremonies which for forty days have occupied the faithful, and the climax of the Easter services, when cach member of the church will kiss each other membef upon the check with the KI of Pea ind depart, rejoicing, to join the feasting ipon the barn the roast with an meats already earthen prepared floor, as In a written grea in the hare law of churcet Today while other ehurches are rejoicing in glorious ister ervice the Greek till ar isting for next Sunday is thelr Easter-and then they will sing the grandest hymn of the Greek Orthodox church light of the world, was put in the ‘Christ, the tomb and armies of angels glorified him for his condescension a ws Aimosphere It is probably only to Is Oriental. one of the transient a. or yy settieament who house in the ways of the Ghetto that is o tumbPing accidentally on one of Hull of learned delight inmates : ‘ is yet u given the the welrd- est ceremonies thatwhe has ever seen. But with the directions to go to the "Greek Orthodox church of the Jtoly Trinity at.34 Johnson street the stranger will not have any doubt, having once left the mixed sights ind sounds of the Ghetto on the outside of the door, that he {s suddenly in the atmosphere of the orient It is nearly 10 o'clock on the night of Good Friday, which falls a week later than that of the American churches this year, but may be before or after, allowing for the difference in the calendars, and he has arrived at the beginning of the great hymn the " Epitafios Threnos." The first part of the liturg said at the altar already has taken place and, the priest has come down to the bier al the Christ, which is covered with candles and flowers and with the picture or ikon representing him taken from the cross, leaning against it The men, nearly 2,000 of them bearing great Highted wax tapers-big ones that burn the full four hours of the service-rearrange themselves, letting in those fifteen or twenty who have " gpoken " to help with the service, closer about the bier 7 Women Worshipers Are The men have dark mustaches eyes peculiar to the Greek face, still with other little candles country the innumerable close together, in the church standing. too, < 2S herded chalr the blaze o all of in Few. and the lightec flaming standing, the Holy the far off light with dark, bright up brighter candles They for there are Trinity The gallery, make their sixty The Greeks néearl rll come and the women are few and have ervice, except the bringing of or 1lone little wre no few an- of the peopl nd then another 1 the great hymn Is then taken up in the bier, : all keeping time with a a Nightly During Passion Week. This s seventy to this part in fift more verses have been sung Incen is burned and then "We magnify the Lord he giver of fe, Ww was stretched upon the cro nd who crushed the power of the enemy sings the pr Th t 1d part to upon is the end of the Funeral of Jesus," the great Climax of the story of the cross which the Greek of Chieago has heand In Nthurgy every night during Passion week Every night he has held his candle until it has burned in its socket. every night he has paid a dollar for it as he has gone in at the church door, every night he has stood reverent and untiring For forty days he has eaten only bread, fruit, and vegetables and has not touched meat nor fish nor cheese He has been a vegetarian In the spirit and the letter The night of Good Friday he finishes the song sung by the women weeping around the tomb of Jesus to the last of its hundreds of verses He prostrates ind crosses himself before the sacred pictures or ikons to kiss them and he goes home to sleep and rest if possible until the resurrection is 12 o'clock Saturday night when he ,comes ter morning now and the beginning back, for it is of the Resurrection-Anastasis of Christ He is pale and wan as he starts In at his last igil, which Is to last until 4 He prostrates himself before the ikons that are hung all the way around the church He follows the liturgy that is intoned by the priest He stands before the fkon on which the figures of Christ, the Virgin, and the saints are painted, and bows his head and body, while with his right hand and with his fingers folded in a peculiar manner he fOuches his forehead, his shoulders, his breast. "Christ arose from his grave and by his death overcame the death-ol the-eert tend reg minted Ste to those who were in the graves." chants the priests It is the great song of the Resurrection with which the liturgy ends The Greek places his candle before one or another of the ikons, kisses the cross and hand of the priest. and goes home. Before he rests he helps himself from a great dish of hot soup which has been left ready He drinks long and deep, for this is the first taste of meat he has had since the first day flower ut them Attends When the priest tep lown into th center the two singer is they re called, who have thelr places. behind tall yn little raised platforms at the sides of the church, meet him Chere is no organ or verse first the up ikes priest the and instrument of Light the ‘Chris monotone a sweet in chanting the World The ‘singers take ip the 1ext verse and then'the song is taken up verse b I first by one fiinging strange, rhythmic movement The enthusiasm of the Greek reaches its height here, and each and every one sings the verse which commemorates the coming of the women to the tomb Now comes one of the strangest sights in the Ghetto, when the priests, with eight or more of@their followers, march around the chureh three times, carrying the bler with the Ikon representime the Master If it were not in the Ghetto and in Chicago, where there are strange and unsympathizing eyes to see and profane lips to mock, the little cortége would go outside and pass three times round the church But the littl company of Greeks are alone in a strange land. week Peace rotation You will drama unless or some other of the Greek able to get not see "the next chapter of the. you are led by the scent of savory scent into an unusec which famille in he neighborhood have for the morning of their real Easter a little meat few been cele- bration It must be a barn without a wooden floor which can be cleaned and in which a great fire ean be bullt It must be big enough to build a frame where three o TOUT spindle, possibly for can hard find to becue in a0 In t and sp velo : If i you lamp UT thi is be given, the mar of to tf) the get e would a by be 1 place pessible Jong read Agape," .z£aT go roasted to together eceremor never omitted, the orthodox Greek; and Ghetto night fo or the for join we | the If It it is bar- together ' ettlement i igain they must service of love church o little next Sunday ip be morn- Bien) ad Ail it enti oe Fxcraprtor OF THE GREEA -8 Ter Hoty TRIVITY ing between eleven he be struck a niiiiied: aden eisiiiedanaaaie ciate InyTERioR 1 OF GrexA a a 8 eee the hours usual with hours the quiet fe ee CaruxcH OF of half of pa st Sunday and dest rted nine and half past service ou would appearance of the Uitte barn either in some in the little byways iene "¢ hrist of hear the strains would you in the yard, The hanted merrily being grave," the from . first the until ceremonies the monopolize again men and there is just time to return dish of flesh is ro usted, has heen which meal to eat the bountiful to the house Is:again dressel in his best, provided, when every Greek but the shortest last, } v si to the chure h for the way the ony his Easter. ways the stranges t service of in some or +1 ® U thy © nv IL I So GHURCH er STE ee a a |