Orthodox Easter is coming
@TypicalRussian (747)
Budennovsk, Russian Federation
April 30, 2016 12:41pm CST
48 days of Lent are coming to an end.
Passion Week started on Monday. Church people clean their accomodations, bodies, souls. The first ones with broom and cleaning fluid. The second ones with bath sponge and soap. The third ones with confession.
Good Friday was a Day of Sorrrow and today is the Day of Holy Awaiting.
Those beleive in God ask questions to themselves, whether they could keep the fast properly from their point of view. Do they deserve Sunday joy in full? Did they try to help people, read the Bible and abstain from certain food?
Today i attended church ceremony of eggs and Easter cakes consecrating and put all these products in the fridge until tomorrow or today's midnight.
At midnight there will be a sacred ceremony of receiving the Holy Fire and people will greeet each other with "Jesus is resurrected!" - "Indeed" phrases.
Every Orthodox church bell tower will be available for visiting tomorrow.
Happy Easter!
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
30 Apr 16
I had no idea orthodox Easter was so much later in the year
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
1 May 16
@MALUSE this puts christmas in jan?
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@MALUSE (69373)
• Germany
1 May 16
@Jessicalynnt It's always two weeks later. Same with Christmas. It has to do with a change of calendars which one Christian church followed and the other didn't.
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@TypicalRussian (747)
• Budennovsk, Russian Federation
1 May 16
In very rare cases (once in 4 or 12 years) dates are equal
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@TypicalRussian (747)
• Budennovsk, Russian Federation
1 May 16
Voistinu voskres (now i can say that, because yesterday it was early for that
)
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@xFiacre (12966)
• Ireland
30 Apr 16
@typicalrussian A time of joy and hope indeed.
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