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    Easter in Ukraine

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    Easter is one of the most important Christian holidays celebrated in Ukraine. It commemorates Jesus Christ's resurrection. Ukrainians observe many traditions in the weeks and days leading up to Easter, including keeping Lent, bringing home blessed willow branches on Palm Sunday, cleaning their homes on Clean Thursday, and baking paska bread on Good Friday. On Easter Sunday, families have a festive meal and exchange decorated pysanka eggs, which are an important symbol of the holiday representing new life.

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    Easter in Ukraine

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    Easter is one of the most important Christian holidays celebrated in Ukraine. It commemorates Jesus Christ's resurrection. Ukrainians observe many traditions in the weeks and days leading up to Easter, including keeping Lent, bringing home blessed willow branches on Palm Sunday, cleaning their homes on Clean Thursday, and baking paska bread on Good Friday. On Easter Sunday, families have a festive meal and exchange decorated pysanka eggs, which are an important symbol of the holiday representing new life.

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    Easter is one of the most important Christian holidays celebrated in Ukraine. It commemorates Jesus Christ's resurrection. Ukrainians observe many traditions in the weeks and days leading up to Easter, including keeping Lent, bringing home blessed willow branches on Palm Sunday, cleaning their homes on Clean Thursday, and baking paska bread on Good Friday. On Easter Sunday, families have a festive meal and exchange decorated pysanka eggs, which are an important symbol of the holiday representing new life.

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    Easter in Ukraine

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    Easter is one of the most important Christian holidays celebrated in Ukraine. It commemorates Jesus Christ's resurrection. Ukrainians observe many traditions in the weeks and days leading up to Easter, including keeping Lent, bringing home blessed willow branches on Palm Sunday, cleaning their homes on Clean Thursday, and baking paska bread on Good Friday. On Easter Sunday, families have a festive meal and exchange decorated pysanka eggs, which are an important symbol of the holiday representing new life.

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    Easter in Ukraine

    • Holidays are very pleasant days, because these are


    days when people don’t have to work, but have an
    opportunity to relax, meet friends, say many
    pleasant words to each other, give presents to one
    another and everybody is in a cheerful and merry
    mood.
    • Each country has its own customs, traditions, holidays,
    important days in its history. Talking of holidays in
    Ukraine we should say about Easter which is one of the
    most important Christian festival of the year.
    • Easter Day comes according to the lunar calendar. This day is
    much more than ordinary holiday. It’s the day of Jesus Christ’s
    Resurrection. People celebrate this Holiday because He died on
    the cross for our salvation. They go to churches to listen to
    sermons, gather at homes to pray and thank Jesus Christ for the
    salvation from eternal death into eternal life with Him in Heaven.
    • By Orthodox canons Easter is celebrated in Ukraine later than in other
    European countries. Only several years ago it was proclaimed an official
    state holiday.
    • Preparation for Easter starts seven weeks ahead of time with the advent of
    Lent. Believers don’t eat meat and animal products.
    Palm Sunday, the week before Easter, is known in Ukraine as Willow
    Sunday. People bring home willow branches which have been blessed
    in church.

    • The week is dedicated to preparing for Easter. The Thursday before Easter is
    called Clean Thursday. According to Ukrainian tradition one should bathe
    before sunrise on this day. The house must be clean too.
    • Good Friday is the day that the women of the family bake “paska”,
    Ukrainian Easter bread.
    •  Easter egg is an important part in Easter celebration.
    •  It is the most popular emblem of the holiday. It symbolized the birth of new
    life and the coming of spring.
    •  So on Saturday children dye Easter eggs to add to the Easter basket, which
    will be blessed in church. It also includes salt, paska, sausage and ham. In
    the evening people go to church for attending the all-night service. Even
    those who never usually go to church attend such services.
    • Easter egg is called pysanka. Pysanka shells have been found in
    archaeological sites from more than 3000 years ago, and many of those
    designs are still being used on pysanka today.
    •  Nowadays you can also find chocolate eggs with surprises in them.
    • But the old custom of dying and painting eggs is still kept and is the most
    popular. There are some other emblems of Easter which came to us from
    other countries. They are fluffy little chicks, the Easter Bunny and spring
    flowers.
    • Easter Sunday or Red Sunday is a day of singing songs and having a tasty
    meal at home. Young girls dance and sing about nature and spring. People
    have an occasion for the exchange of pysankas.
    • The day after Easter Day, Easter Monday is also a public holiday.
    • Ukrainian people
    enjoy Easter because
    it is a good break in
    everyday work, an
    opportunity to see
    their friends and
    relatives and just to
    have a good time. At
    such moments
    everybody relaxes
    and tries to forget
    about everyday
    problems.
    •Vocabulary:
    • shell — шкаралупа
    • archaeological — археологічний
    • design — узор, малюнок
    • advent — прихід
    • to dye — фарбувати
    • Lent — Великий піст
    • willow — верба
    • blessed — освячений
    • according to — згідноз
    • sunrise— схід сонця
    • mass— служба (у церкві)
    • to exchange— обмінюватися
    • Questions:
    • What is one of the most important holiday of the year?
    • What associations do you have with Easter?
    • What is Lent?
    • When does preparation for Easter start?
    • Can you describe what is going on in your house before Easter Sunday?
    • What is pysanka?
    • Do you enjoy painting eggs?
    • What are your favourite colours and desines?
    • When do children dye eggs?
    •  What do people put into the Easter basket?

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