Easter Celebrations in Italy

Easter is a really important holiday in our home.
But we call it Pasqua.
It's celebrated over Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Then on Monday we have a national holiday called La Pasquetta.
Easter can be a very joyful time, but on Good Friday and Saturday we mourn during procession.
Not that everyone mourns. Most people just care about the food and day off work.
But that's not part of our traditions.
Whatever. Just explain what a procession is to all those ignorant idiots reading this.
A procession is where we walk around in the streets, led by the churches' friars. Usually they carry these large statues of Jesus and the Virgin Mary with them.
The largest procession is in Enna, Sicily. It's led by over 2,000 friars. And Trapani holds several processions in a day.
The mourning ends in the last mass with the final procession we have on Sunday morning. Everyone is expected to be blessed by the Pope, and some churches gets everyone to sing the Solemn Mass or other songs like that.
On the last procession in Florence, we set up white carts filled with firecrackers, then we light them up and watch them explode.
There's also a lot of food during the celebration. Most of the meat we eat is either lamb or goat, and eggplant is really popular to eat too. And we give everyone gifts of chocolate eggs and bread shaped like doves called Colomba Pasquale. They're really tasty and sweet!
Because we don't have a stupid rabbit as a symbol for Easter like every other country, we use the dove instead.
That's not very nice. There's nothing wrong with other countries using a rabbit.
But it's stupid. What's a rabbit got to do with eggs anyway? It can't lay them.
Oh, we still got to talk about the La Pasquetta.
Fine... on Monday we have dances, host free concerts and have cheese competitions.
And that's how we celebrate Easter!