Lent ends with the bright holiday of Easter. The pre-Easter Passion Week is a special time when believers are preparing for the holy celebration, and each day has its own meaning.
Instructions
Step 1
Preparing for Easter is about cleansing your soul, body and your own home. On the pre-Easter days, the hostesses put things in order in the house, dismantle all the corners, carefully sweep and wash. Nowadays, many people do general cleaning and cosmetic repairs before Easter.
Step 2
The cleanliness of the home is of course very important. But the most important thing is to put things in order in your own soul. It's time to visit the church, receive communion and repentance. It is worth forgiving everyone, making peace with everyone, praying for your friends and enemies.
Step 3
Easter food is prepared in advance. All dishes should be symbolic. Easter is not a holiday for the belly, so you shouldn't cook gourmet delicacies. Better to limit yourself to simple dishes with symbolic content.
Step 4
The egg is a symbol of life. Paint your eggs on Holy Week Thursday. The predominant color should be red or deep golden. Modern food colors allow you to carry out the staining procedure quickly and safely.
Step 5
Bake artos - the bread that you will consecrate at the Easter service and distribute to believers on Saturday morning of Bright Week.
Step 6
Each housewife bakes Easter cakes according to her own recipe. The main thing is that raisins and nuts should be present in such a treat. The cake itself is made from butter dough. The consecration of festive cakes and artos begins at the end of the Great Saturday liturgy. Most churches are consecrated in the morning on Bright Sunday.
Step 7
Directly on the Easter holiday, visit single, elderly or sick relatives, friends, acquaintances. It is not customary to visit the cemetery on this day. On the ninth day of Easter, Radunitsa will be, when it's time to give alms and visit everyone who has passed away.
