Palm Sunday in Moscow

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Schwartz Vyacheslav
Palm Sunday in Moscow under Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich.
1865. Oil on canvas. 60 x 122 cm

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Congratulations!

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Congratulations to all the Orthodox with bright holiday. May God bless all of you health and peace of mind.

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Sochi, Palm Sunday

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Dear forum users! I congratulate you on holiday!

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Yves-willow widely represented in folk rituals. Of particular importance, the highest degree of sacredness, endowed with the strong
magical properties, acquired in the popular consciousness is the willow,
is sanctified in the Christian feast day of the Entry of the Lord in
Jerusalem, which is also called Palm Sunday.
  In the Middle Ages in Russia to this day reproduced the entry of Jesus in
donkey into Jerusalem, where Jesus is symbolically substituted for the patriarch, and his
"Donkey" (horse) kept the reins of the king. Of course, in effect
present and decorated Palm tree, not to mention the numerous branches of willow. Travelers-foreigners in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the week before Easter, observed that "the Russian people ... liked to attend this ceremony, the authorities did not dare to cancel it even in the Time of Troubles. According to Martin Bera (1611), would be lifted in Moscow "Walking on the ass", but it caused a "black ... strong murmur, "and she" liked better to die than endure such
violence.
  The holiday is dedicated to the memory of the solemn entrance of the Lord in
Jerusalem. Gospel of John as telling about the event: "... A lot of people ... heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, took branches of palm trees and went to meet him, and cried: Hosanna! Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord, the King of Israel "(Jn 12, 12, 13).
  But how do we get in our corner of the palms? During a
"Walking in the ass" "patriarch raised a king first vaiyu (ie
palm, delicate carved wood and gilded), and
then - Verbier. This willow has become the sole and universal
plant symbol of the holiday. The name itself indicates
Volume - Palm Sunday and its variants: Verbnitsa (Kostroma)
Verbin (Ural), Verbich, Vyarbich (Ukrainian and Belarusian).
Instead of the official church name "week Vay says:
"Verbnaya week. "Palm" name of the festival are already present in
the earliest Russian historical works - in the First Novgorod Chronicle, in the Hypation chronicle, in the collections of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
  The Western Slavs willow considered equally cherished symbol
holiday, as well as in Russia: Vrbica this day is called the Serbs,
Vrbnitsoy - the Bulgarians.
  Why Palm branches were a symbol of the holiday Entrance
Lord, why Sunday is Palm Sunday?
  In church literature we mention that the branches
Jerusalem willow could be tantamount to a palm. According
Christian Encyclopedia, the name "week Vay" "comes from
that vaiyami (willow branches Jerusalem) Jewish people
met Jesus Christ. " This image of "willow Jerusalem" part
explains the "total" rule of palms in the ritual of the Russian Orthodox
Church on the day of Palm Sunday.
  But even the "appearance" Festive willow could meet their
biblical archetypes - in principle barren tree once a year with
clearly conceived fruiting: from kidney hallowed willow prepared the "Palm porridge, Palm tree in the act of 'going on an ass" decorated with various fruits.
  To the usual willows occurred wonderful metamorphosis (that it
become pious Fetal tree), we needed a ritual context
holiday, sacred holiday service.
  On Palm Sunday is celebrated the joyous event - the spring meeting and meeting God! And anticipates the Easter celebration.