Question:
im jewish and im going to my catholic boyfriends house for easter sunday...?
jamie
2009-04-10 07:44:40 UTC
im jewish and im going to my catholic boyfriends house for easter sunday... what should i expect? should i bring a gift? help please
Eight answers:
Selar
2009-04-10 07:53:34 UTC
expect a traditional Easter, ham and all the fixings. unless you are going to mass. then expect alot of prayer, singing, sitting standing. Bring, an Easter lily plant. Really it depends on the culture too. I was raised Polish Catholic, so we had a variety of food and laughter and loudness.
Ben S
2009-04-10 08:04:15 UTC
A gift is not necessary, I have never heard of gift exchange on Easter. If you would like to be polite, bring a box or bag of chocolates, Lindt are good, and cheap, you can get them at Stop and Shop (maybe other stores too I do not know). But that is more because you are dating their boyfriend than the fact that it is Easter.



You should expect lots of food. Different people celebrate it differently. Some people serve Ham, some serve Chicken, and some serve Eggs. Those are the most common I believe, but everyone celebrates it differently. There will probably be some side dishes as well if they serve something non-Kosher if you are Kosher.
Stunnfludder01598
2009-04-10 08:04:27 UTC
Ask you boyfriend. Easter Sunday is usually dinner with the family, Easter egg hunt and a lot of fun. If they are religious then it might be different, so ask him first. I don't think you need to bring anything either, maybe some candy.
ranger_diy
2009-04-10 07:52:37 UTC
I would ask your boyfriend. Different families celebrate differently. They will probably just have dinner. I haven't heard of people exchanging gifts but the "Easter Bunny" will usually get gifts for the children. Some families may dress up and others might dress casually.
Tseruyah
2009-04-10 08:08:58 UTC
You can expect whatever their traditions are for that family. catholics typically indulge in Easter baskets, the chocolate rabbit biz, the colored eggs, the HAM, the going to Mass and declaring their man-god risen from the dead.



As a Jew, you shouldn't be having anything to do with this paganism.

Did you say the birkat haChamah Wednesday morning and are you observing Pesach?



If you think I'm too strict about interreligious dating (and i am against it!), try bringing some matzah and charoset with you to their house and see how they like it.
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2016-09-30 02:38:41 UTC
your little ones does no longer be Jewish except they have been raised as Jews. His final call skill no longer something in regard to raising the youngsters as Jews. you're no longer Jewish and the youngster's Jewishness is set with the help of the mum. besides the incontrovertible fact that some Reform Rabbis will comply with Jewishness if the youngsters have been raised as Jews. Judaism and xianity are diametrically antagonistic faiths. retaining directly to to stay wires gets you fried bodily and retaining 2 diametrically antagonistic faiths fries no longer purely you yet your little ones spiritually. i think of you the two ought to hunt for suggestion from a Rabbi and a clergyman and heavily communicate this count number until eventually now this is going any extra. Marriage won't resolve those problems and that they are going to purely develop worse in time. Love does no longer triumph over all. And the two religions state the youngsters ought to be raised in accordance to that faith.
sparki777
2009-04-10 08:00:42 UTC
You'd have to ask your boyfriend, since different families do different things. When I was a girl, even though we weren't Catholic, we'd put on fancy clothes and hats and go to Mass with my grandmother and then we went to her house for a big dinner that included ham and lamb. (So you'd really better check, because if you keep Kosher, there might be some food issues).



When my husband and I were protestants, we'd go to sunrise service just the two of us and then have a casual pot-luck dinner with his extended family.



Now that we are Catholic, we go to Mass on Thursday, Stations of the Cross on Friday, help decorate the church on Saturday, and then get dressed up for Mass on Sunday morning. We still go to his family for pot-luck dinner, though, because we aren't related to any other Catholics.
Avocado
2009-04-10 07:55:35 UTC
Do not eat any chametz.


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