Happy Easter!

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With Bright holiday Resurrection, Christians!

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The bright holiday!

How to celebrate Easter in the world.
U.S.
On Easter Sunday, the American family must attend church, where the office of the glory of Jesus Christ, the risen on this day from the dead. Service is accompanied by a collective singing in honor of this event. The traditional American Easter meal consists of ham with pineapple, potatoes, fruit salad and vegetables. Children receive a basket from the 'Easter bunny', which is still early in the morning, filled them with colored Easter eggs and a mass of chocolate and sweets. In America, the very popular Easter game: skating eggs on sloping lawn. Children compete, and who continue to be able to ride without stopping its eggs. The biggest competition is on Easter Sunday on the lawn near the White House in Washington. Hundreds of children come with their Easter baskets filled with brightly colored eggs, and rolled them down on the lawn near the presidential palace.
Australia
It is very popular Easter eggs made of chocolate or sugar - a very large and smaller. Easter eggs are still here like to do in the form of a rabbit or a rare native animal Australian continent - Bilby. It turns out that this creature could soon become a symbol of Easter in Australia. Scientists are thus hoping to prevent the extinction of this species, attracting public attention to serious environmental problems. By tradition, the Easter menu Australians consists of roast mutton, beef or chicken with grilled vegetables, like potatoes, carrots, pumpkin, beans, peas or broccoli. For dessert, serve a traditional sweet dish of the Australian Easter - 'Pavlova', a cake of meringue, decorated with fruit, kiwi, strawberries, pineapples and tangerines. A very popular sweet hot buns that Australians eat for breakfast on Easter morning before the obligatory visit to the church. Easter in Australia is a time when many Australian families go out into nature, because now in those places summer ends and autumn begins. Someone is going to the coast, someone in the mountains.
Poland
In Poland, on Easter Sunday on the table appear cold meats and sausages, among them - the famous white sausage made of pork, seasoned with salt, pepper, nutmeg, garlic and marjoram. For it is usually served with beet horseradish. This dish is called 'tsvikla'. Festive meal, of course, not without pastries and sweets. In Germany, the dough for the cake mix with milk and eggs, add the raisins, braid braid and bake in oblong shape. On Good Saturday, arranged the funeral of vegetable soup - 'Jura', and herring, which was also the main part of the Lenten food, hung on a tree. Clergy in churches sprinkled holy water on cakes, eggs, horseradish, sausages, ham, salt, pepper, fire and water, which are then used for various magical acts.
By very ancient tradition of celebrating Easter is so called. Smigus-dyngus - Comic custom pouring water on each other on a holiday Monday - the second day of the feast of Resurrection of Christ. It originates in two different traditions. Dyngusom called donations (eggs, sausage and other products), which the hostess gave children which went from house to house to pay off the worries and ensure the welfare home. Smigusom also known as rap ('fortunately'), Palm twig with buds on Palm Sunday. Smigus-dyngus preserved to this day as a custom to pour water on each other. On this day, the girls making wreaths from flowers and herbs, go with them to go home and sing the song. In the Polish tradition, until recently it was customary to celebrate the fifth day after Easter - so-called. "Spring grandfathers'. On this day, people visited cemeteries where arranged a meal at the graves of their loved ones, symbolically sharing with them the remnants of the big feasts and festive meals.
On Easter Sunday morning at the beautifully decorated table there are various sausages and cold meat dishes, pies, 'women', cakes with fruit, poppy strudel, and in the middle, baked from flour or made from melted sugar lamb - in memory of the resurrection of Jesus Christ . And exclusively in this day appears on the table a special bread - 'Easter'. His baked from rye flour, partially fermented and starter, while adhering to a magical ritual. On top of its grease lard and decorate a cross made of dough. A week before Palm Sunday hostess did not bake the bread out of fear, to bake them all year round bread is not moldy. During baking, they were taken only in the Holy Week. In some regions of Poland it was Good Friday, in the other - on the contrary, this day was forbidden that any stove. If a single owner has violated the ban, the whole village threatened a prolonged drought. To prevent it could only plunge into the pond vessel, which was kneading dough mistress, breaching the ban. 'Easter' should be ready by Saturday. In addition to the cross of dough, they were decorated, in a sample wedding cake, flowers, birds ... On Good Saturday 'Easter' carried along with the 'Eggs' - painted eggs, meat and horseradish to church for consecration. On Sunday, each homeborn slave and domestic animals (except cats) get a piece of consecrated bread. Anointed horseradish, he had to keep it away from throat diseases, animal well - from all sorts of diseases and ailments.
Bulgaria
According to Bulgarian tradition at Easter many colored eggs spread around a large Easter bread. As in Russia, Bulgaria 'clink' Easter eggs up until one of them cracks, and wish for it to each other luck. Luckiest is he who has the longest Easter egg will remain intact.
Sweden
In Sweden, Easter is not such a big holiday, like Christmas, but the schools are beginning to celebrate a week before the offensive. Children and teachers talk about and remember that Jesus died and then resurrected from the dead. Living in Sweden decorate their homes for Easter Easter flower gardens, yellow, green and white. Residents in their homes throughout Sweden set of yellow chicks in a frame color fancy feathers. Swedes eat on Easter pochtitu same food that they prefer for Christmas, but this time much more attention to candy and other sweets. Easter eggs are made of cardboard, and inside each egg lay on a big beautiful candy.
Germany
Easter is preceded by Good Friday. Many Germans must eat fish on this day. No one in Germany should not work either on Friday or Saturday prior to Easter Day. And on Saturday night in various locations in Germany celebrated with a big Easter bonfire. This is a very popular event, and so many people come to look at this fire - a symbol of the end of winter and the burning of all the bad feelings. On the morning of Easter Sunday, each family in Germany spends time together over breakfast. Parents on the eve of hiding baskets with sweets, Easter eggs and small gifts. After breakfast, they tell the children: 'The Easter bunny hid from your cart, you have to find them. " Kids are looking for them around the house, and it's very funny moment of the day festive. In the second half of Easter Sunday the family pays a visit to friends and family and drink tea together.
France
In French-speaking Switzerland for the Easter customs relates 'decoration of springs'. In more than two hundred church communities springs in the villages are decorated with garlands of colorful Easter eggs, paper, sticks and belts. Record belongs to Bieberbach: to 'the world's largest Easter a spring' hangs a garland of more than 8,000 eggs. It makes sense to go for a walk in Oberlauzitsu between Bautzen, Kamenetz and Hoyerswerda, where on Easter Sunday through the village pass Sorbian Easter knights. In the procession attended to 400 beautifully dressed men. They carry the banners of the church, cross, and sometimes a statue of Jesus. In France, according to legend, on Good Friday all the church bells are leaving the country to 'go' in Rome. Once again, they will sound only after returning to Easter Sunday. On the way back they bring children to the chocolate in the form of small bells and bowls.
Italy
On Good Friday in Rome, tens of thousands of people accompanied the Pope during a procession to the Easter service at the Coliseum, on Easter Sunday at St. Peter's Square is going to 400 000 to hear the Pope's Easter prayer 'Urbi et Orbi'. In Italy, with the words: 'Christ is risen! " Magdalen gave Emperor Tiberius a red egg - the symbol of the Resurrection. Thus was born the custom of the day Easters to give each other eggs. The Christians, mostly Catholics, the Easter meal has long been a lamb. And today, in Italy, even in a small village on Easter certainly eat it. Neapolitans invented a special recipe for a garnish - fried artichokes. It works beautifully with roast lamb or mutton kidneys, cooked with cheese, peas and eggs. Also offering salad - of lettuce, sweet peppers, olives and artichoke hearts and tomatoes, parsley and garlic. The French put on the table, scrambled eggs with bacon or sausage. Followed by a meat dish - venison or lamb, but it may be pork. In Metz serves, for example, a pig, cooked on the grill. Kept recipe for the Passover lamb ('Pascaline'), attributed to Talleyrand. Sheep's head stuffed with liver, bacon and herbs and lightly fried in oil. Then spread them on a round dish with mutton legs, boiled in white broth, and sheep thymus, sauteed in bacon, with the croquettes, languages, and brains, and croutons. Dish coated with sauce velyute onions. Another recipe Pascaline leads in his "Culinary dictionary 'by Alexandre Dumas. Six of lamb stuffed with ground lamb, boiled egg yolks, bread crumbs and chopped greens, seasoned with a mixture of four spices - ground white pepper, nutmeg, ginger and cinnamon. Tucked carcass obkladyvayut bacon and baked. Serve Pascaline green sauce, or with ragout of truffles.
UK
In Britain, Easter is considered the 'Queen of Festivals. " On Good Friday the church bells fall silent, and again begin to chime only on Easter Sunday. Children playing in the 'Egg-shackling': while on raw eggs is written the name of the child. The winner is the kid whose egg, toss in a sieve, the longest is not broken.

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Photo by Igor Vereshchagin.

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Happy Easter!

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At the airport Vnukovo aircraft landed on board from Jerusalem to Moscow brought a particle of the Holy Fire . Divine flame and delivered to other Russian cities . Delegation from the Holy Land, went to Christ the Saviour Cathedral , where the closer to midnight starts the main Easter service . Having made it , Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, headed by Cyril solemn procession .
Flame kindled in the Temple of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after the prayers of the faithful and the Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos . By tradition , the chapel over the tomb he went unmasked to his cassock , with no matches and fire sources . Primate has appeared with burning candles . From them, people lit their candles , the flame passed on to each other and washed with fire . Those not lucky enough to get into the temple to observe everything happening on the huge screens .

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CHRIST IS RISEN!

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Christ is Risen!

Truly He is risen!

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Congratulations to all Orthodox Christians on Easter!

Christ is Risen!

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I heartily congratulate you on Happy Easter!
Christ is Risen!

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Christ is Risen!