Презентація "Easter in Ukraine"

Easter is the principal festival of the Christian church year which celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ . It is the festival of the joy that life celebrates.

Easter Symbols. The cross. The candle. The egg. Willow branches. Easter bread- Paska

Willow Sunday The last Sunday before Easter is called Willow Sunday. On this day pussy-willow branches are blessed in church. The people tap one another with these branches repeating: “Be as tall as the willow, as healthy as the water and as rich as the Earth. Not I am tapping, the willow is tapping. Easter is in a week”.

White or Pure Thursday. On Thursday before Easter people make an effort to finish all house work . On the evening of Pure Thursday the Passion service is performed after which people return home with lighted candles.

Celebrating Easter. Easter begins with the matins and high mass, during which the pasky( traditional Easter breads), pysanky and Krashanky (decorated and coloured Easter eggs) are blessed.

Easter basket People prepare Easter baskets on the eve of Easter. People decorate their baskets in different ways. Except pasky and pysanky people put in their baskets butter, leaf lard, cheese, roast suckling pigs, sausage, smoked meat, horse-radish, garlic, onions.

Easter Monday On Easter Monday boys splash girls with water, saying: “Happy Easter”!

Easter Table The necessary food on the table are those provisions that were blessed in the church: horse-radish, smoked meat, sausage, leaf lard, cheese, green onion, garlic some salads, painted eggs, paska, herring and others.

HAPPY EASTER