On this day, bake Easter cakes and paint eggs, it is necessary to take care of all the Easter dishes.
Passion Sunday in 2017 falls on April 15. On this day, bake Easter cakes and paint eggs, it is necessary to take care of all the Easter dishes. While cooking Easter treats woman should be alone in the kitchen, otherwise the dish will fail and will be tasteless.
This day was preparing the Easter basket for consecration in the Church. Well-known tradition to stay awake all night before Easter – not to “sleep through” all the year round.
Evening in the parish churches committed to the morning of Holy Saturday with the burial of the shroud – long and light service richly decorated with flowers around the shroud. This day is called Quiet Sabbath, Christ has already risen, but people don’t know it yet. At the Liturgy of great Saturday the clergy dressed black robes in white. Begins the Paschal Matins is the first service of Easter. After the Liturgy this day is the first consecration of PASOK. It is customary to bless food not only for themselves, but leave the part in the Church – the clergy, the altar, the choir – and to donate to the poor.
On Holy Saturday not to celebrate weddings, birthdays, various anniversaries and any other secular holidays. It is also forbidden to fish and to hunt.
With a Passionate Saturday involves a lot of people will and beliefs. The weather on this day was judged on the future of the summer: if on Easter Saturday, warm and clear, and the summer will be fertile, but if Saturday’s cold, the summer should not expect a good harvest.
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