Today is Easter. How Ukrainians celebrate one of their favorite holidays
Today is Easter, Paskha, the Resurrection of Christ - one of the greatest religious holidays and one of the most favorite holidays of Ukrainians, which has a large number of customs, traditions and signs that have been passed down from generation to generation. The Ukrainian News Agency will tell you what is possible and undesirable to do on this day.
Beliefs and traditions
From Saturday evening to Sunday morning, the Easter service is held, the priests proclaim "Christ is Risen!", and the faithful respond: "Truly He is Risen!". After the service, the festive procession goes around the church three times, the priest begins the consecration of Easter baskets. With the consecrated baskets, they hurried home to sit down at the festive table.
Returning to the house, the owner of the house with the basket stood on the threshold and said three times: "Christ is Risen", the whole family responded: "Truly He is Risen". Easter breakfast begins with a prayer. Some people start the festive treat, which is called breaking the fast, by cutting the holy Easter cake into as many pieces as there are family members, and then they start the eggs.
Another good Easter tradition is the christening, when everyone present at the festive table takes a krashanka or pysanka [Easter eggs - ed.] in their hands and knocks with each other. There are even interpretations of the results:
- the egg did not break - it will be a happy year;
- the egg fell out of your hands - to trouble, it is better to refuse trips;
- the egg broke before lunch - to a quarrel in the family, after lunch - to a loss of money;
- the egg rolled off the table - there are envious people in the environment.
What you can not do:
- work and do housework;
- take out the garbage after sunset;
- cut or dye your hair;
- sleep late;
- get married;
- be lazy;
- to curse, swear, gossip;
- to go to the cemetery and commemorate the dead;
- to throw away consecrated products.
Folk signs:
- the sun shines brightly - in three days it will rain;
- cloudy and raining - there will be a good harvest;
- the sky is clear and sunny - to a rich harvest and a warm summer;
- on the second day of Easter, clear weather - the summer will be rainy, cloudy - the summer will be dry;
- a long rumble of thunder - to bad weather for several days;
- it is raining - spring will be late and gloomy.
Today's birthdays: Feodosia, Mykyta, Ivan, Iosyp.