Happy Resurrection Diary
The Resurrection of Christ is the biggest holiday for Orthodox Christians, called a holiday of all holidays.
This greeting Christians will make the Christians in the next 40 days – until the holiday Pentecost. The candles lit at the festive service are worn to catch home – so the new light is symbolically brought into the home.
| The Resurrection of Christ embodies the main Christian dogma – the belief in the resurrection of the righteous in a nicer world that they will inherit after their earthly death and the future terrible judgment. The holiday puts the end of the 40-day great fast. |
According to the evangelical story on the third day after the crucifixion of Christ, the women’s peacekeepers went to the grave to anoin his body, but found that he was empty – Jesus was resurrected. Later, Mary Magdalena went to Rome, appeared before Emperor Tiberius and accused Pilate Pontic of breaching Roman laws, condemning an innocent man. She handed the emperor a red egg with the words « Christ raised ». From there, the existing tradition for the holiday to paint eggs. Since then, it originates in Easter’s characteristic greeting.
Easter children and adults are « beaten » with red eggs, watching who will be the winner. The folk tradition dictates that the one to whom the egg turns out to be a fighter will be the strongest of the year.
| Name day today celebrates all who bear the names Great, Velichko, Great, Velichka, Resurrection, Anastas, Anastasia and others. |
The Dnevnik team wishes you health, peace and love!
