What do they do for Easter?
Holidays Holiday and Celebration of the festivities - so the Russian Orthodox Church calls the Feast of the Bright Resurrection of Christ. This is the main Christian holiday with a deep biblical story.
Easter - the most favorite holiday for the OrthodoxChristian. Behind Lent, forty-nine days of strict fasting and prayer. Will we think about what we are doing for Easter? How to prepare and adequately meet a bright holiday?
Preparation for the holiday
Week before Easter - Passionate is the most stringent week of the year. Believers try to attend the main and significant services this week, on Holy Thursday - confess and receive communion.
On the eve of the holiday, Orthodox housewives, asrule, spend a general cleaning in the house, wash out the most secret corners of the house, establish order and cleanliness. Then decorate the house for the Bright Day: the curtains are changed to festive, the red corner is carefully cleaned, Easter wreaths are hung, compositions are made of eggs, flowers and twigs with the first leaves, the windows are decorated with stained-glass windows on biblical subjects ... So, the house is ready for the Great holiday, it's time and to think about food: what are they preparing for Easter?
Easter table
The main attributes of the Easter table are:
- colored eggs
- easter
- cakes
Modern technologies greatly facilitateThe process of dyeing eggs and allow you to color the eggs in any color. Although the most common dye from the time of our grandmothers is still onion husks.
Buy an Easter cake for the festive table now is notis a lot of work. Bread factories provide us with this production in plenty. However, cooked by our mothers and grandmothers according to ancient recipes, the cakes are much more delicious and aromatic than those purchased. Baking this treat requires special attention and skill, because the dough for cakes is capricious, afraid of drafts, does not tolerate haste and bustle.
Also, certainly on the table should be curdled Easter, in the form of a tetrahedral pyramid, the symbol of Calvary.
After a strict post, mistresses tryprepare a rich celebratory table and indulge your relatives with treats and tasty meat dishes. Traditional are such as stuffed duck or goose, roast lamb, pâté, jelly, jellied, pies with various fillings.
Easter celebration
Easter joy comes to every house of Christiansat night. After the liturgy, solemn night service, the believers come home, set the festive table, and break fast. On the table, each hostess - the consecrated Holy Thursday eggs, cottage cheese Easter and fragrant cakes.
The whole next week, called Svetloyone can hear everywhere: "Christ is Risen!" - "Truly Risen!" ... Orthodox Christians go to each other's houses, Christos, share Easter joy and give presents.
Yes, we will take care of gifts and we: what do they give for Easter?
Gifts for the Bright Day
There is an ancient custom to consecrate the feastEaster colored eggs. Therefore, you will never go wrong with a gift if you donate an egg: chocolate or decorative, painted or painted by yourself, embroidered or fashioned, bought in a souvenir shop or made with children - every egg, as a symbol of a holiday, is expensive and memorable. It is also customary to donate Easter cakes, Easter baskets, church utensils, icons, books for soul-searching reading, candles, Easter cards, women - beautiful kerchiefs.
Currently, Easter is celebrated not onlytrue Orthodox Christians, but also unbelieving people are slowly joining the traditions of the celebration of Easter. The shelves of shops are full of variety of cakes, eggs are bought up by "tens", a circle of a smile, everyone's joy, housewives bake pies, sweets ... After all, what can compare with the immense joy and light that brings this Great Holiday to every home!
