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1. When you realize it’s a 4 – day weekend.
2. When your boss gives you work today and says the deadline is Friday…
3. When you keep hearing ‘Easter bunny’ and ‘Easter eggs’ on TV but you’re in Nigeria so you don’t even understand why they exist.
4. When your friends start asking you why Catholics take Easter so seriously.
5. When you realize that you will actually be in church from Thursday to Sunday.
6. But all those non-Catholics are getting a holiday too, and they’re not spending all of it in church.
7. And on Good Friday, you cannot eat meat, so it’s a fishy affair.
8. When you do something bad on Easter Saturday but you cannot be sad, because Jesus already died for your sins on Good Friday.
9. “Bless me father for I have sinned. It’s been 8 years since my last confession…”
10. When you’re at Peter’s fire and they get to the part where he betrayed Jesus and the guilt just washes over you.
11. When you sleep off during vigil so you’re not awake at midnight when Jesus rises.
12. When Easter Sunday service is so long, you’re sure it’s penance for all your sins.
13. But you console yourslef with the fire jollof rice at home after church so you try to relax.
14. When your parents STILL waste time greeting their friends after church.
15. When all your non-Catholic family friends come to your house for ‘Easter Party’ so you have to be a waiter on the day your Lord rose from the dead.
16. But finally, you’re happy it’s Easter because it means lent is over, and so is the long fast.
