How to celebrate Easter

In Orthodoxy Easter - a great holiday, a feast of the soul of a believer man. This Sunday is the most important thing in the year. How to celebrate Easter taking into account the traditions moving from generation to generation?

Festive mood will appear on Saturday on the eve of Easter. Cooking, cottage cheese Easter, staining eggs - so interesting and fascinating tradition that even children want to participate.

On Saturday to the Holy Resurrection, we go to the church for the service. You need to prepare a plate or a basket in advance, in which the cakes and eggs will be placed. In the icon shop we buy candles. One insert into the cake (pre-prepared a paper circle with a hole in the center, so that the wax does not drop into cake). The father will read prayers and holy water sproches parishioners and cake with eggs.

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On the eve of Easter closer to midnight, we go to the church on the procession. During worship from the Altar, the father takes a fertile fire, from which parishioners incite their candles, and says "Christ is risen!", After which the procession begins - a solemn procession with a big cross and icons around the temple under the bell ringing and prayer, symbolizing the path to meet the resurrection. Savior.

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Holy Resurrection. Meeting on the street of acquaintances, communicating on the phone, even on social networks, people congratulate each other with the words "Christ Rissed!" - "Verily Rissed!", Change the painted eggs, give symbolic gifts.

Traditional Easter fun - balls of eggs. Wins the one whose egg was not cracked.

Rich Easter table after post. In addition to the traditional, on the eve of consecrated, easter, Easter and painted eggs, the menu can include even any meat dishes. You can decorate the table for example homemade nests with empty quail eggs and a small bunch of daffodils or willow branches.

Easter can with confidence to call the favorite children's holiday on a happy new year and his birthday, because this day is charged with positive emotions, filled with bright colors and, most importantly, makes everyone a little lighter and kinder.