Easter is a bright and vibrant holiday that is awaited and welcomed by millions of people around the world. This is not a simple celebration, the holiday is filled with deep meaning, therefore believers prepare for it in advance.
The correct meeting of Easter is preceded by Great Lent, which lasts exactly 40 days. In the last (passionate) week before the holiday, the main preparations begin.
Much attention is paid to putting things in order in the house and in the yard. Do a general cleaning, wash windows, wash curtains and bedspreads. On Maundy Thursday, all family members need to wash themselves, and believers should go to church to commune and confess, thus, you are cleansed both spiritually and physically.
Housewives bake cakes every year before Easter, make cottage cheese Easter and paint eggs. Have a family evening with the children to help you. There are now a variety of Easter sets on sale that you can use to decorate your eggs in a variety of ways.
Go to the temple service on Sunday. This is a solemn service, during which the Easter Midnight Office is held, a procession around the church with lighted candles, joyful Matins and Divine Liturgy. Priests bless Easter cakes and eggs, as well as congratulate and bless parishioners.
Easter is celebrated with family and relatives, you can visit your close friends. If you are visiting, be sure to take colored eggs as a gift. On this day, a special greeting was received: "Christ is risen" - "Indeed he is risen."
After a long fast, people break their fast, praise God and congratulate each other. In addition to traditional Easter treats, hot and meat dishes are served on the table. Of alcohol, moderate consumption of the church wine "Kahor" is allowed. There are traditional Easter games: beating colored boiled eggs and playing with heaps.
In some regions of Russia, on Easter, they massively go to cemeteries and commemorate the dead. This is a fundamentally wrong tradition, Easter is a holiday of the living, and there are special days to commemorate the dead. Moreover, one should not arrange a banquet table at the cemetery, Easter is a bright and blissful holiday, and not a merry, daring feast.
