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The last week before Easter is considered Holy - in 2017 it is April 10-15, and all the days in it are great. Therefore, there are not only Great Saturday, but also Great Monday and Great Tuesday. Let us consider in detail what cannot be done and what can be done during Holy Week.
Fast
Throughout Holy Week, when Christ was approaching his death on the cross, believers observe the strictest fast. Do not eat meat, fish, eggs, dairy, vegetable oil. In Holy Week 2017, you can’t sing, dance, you need to go to services and cleanse yourself as much as possible for the bright holiday of Easter.
Household affairs
Every day of Holy Week was set aside for some household chores.
So, on Maundy Monday, it was necessary to finish all the work in the dwelling: carefully clean the house, wash everything, clean and touch up what was needed. You can also decorate the willow. According to popular belief if you whip the household with this decorated willow, then health will be all year!
Maundy Tuesday was devoted to finishing work with clothes: washing, ironing, darning.
On Great Wednesday, the last rubbish was taken out of the house, eggs were prepared, and everything necessary for the preparation of colored eggs (pysanky).
Maundy Thursday: swim ...
The fourth day of Holy Week is called Maundy Thursday. There are many traditions and beliefs associated with this holiday. Everything you do on this day will help you to be healthy, happy and financially secure all year long!
On Maundy Thursday, according to tradition, you need to swim at dawn. Get up before sunrise and take a swim. Water at this time has healing properties - it washes away damage, illness and sins. The Gospel says that on this day Jesus Christ washed the feet of his disciples at the Last Supper, showing an example of brotherly love and humility.
… Get a haircut
Wednesday - it's time to change your hairstyle. It is believed that along with the cut strands, all evil, as well as the evil eye and ailments, go away.
Visit the temple to confess and receive communion. This will help cleanse the soul from sins. On Maundy Thursday, a fire is lit in the churches, which must be carried home. It is believed that such a candle keeps the house from misfortunes and fires throughout the year. On Thursday, it is customary to bake Easter cakes and paint eggs.
…Give away old stuff
If you properly tidy up the house, joy will come to it. Don't forget to get rid of the trash. It is not customary to give old things to other people on this day - so that well-being does not leave your home, send everything to the trash can.
… Do not lend
Do not lend money or lend money to neighbors or relatives kitchen utensils. In order not to experience financial difficulties for a whole year, count all the money that you have.
… Knead the dough
Make a cheesecake. Napeki Easter cakes and color the eggs. To succeed, while cooking, try to maintain a good mood - think only about the positive. It is believed that before kneading the dough, you need to pray, cleanse your soul and space, otherwise Easter cakes will not work.
Good Friday: Strict Lent
On Good Friday, fasting conditions become even stricter. You can not do anything around the house, sing, dance, listen to music. Nothing should be eaten in memory of the sufferings of Christ. In the evening, during divine services, the Shroud is carried out in the church.
Great Saturday: preparing an Easter feast
Great Saturday is the most troublesome day for housewives, you need to prepare everything for the Easter feast, on this day they continue to paint eggs. According to signs, if an egg with a painted shell cracked, it should not be thrown away, but should be lowered into the river.
And now, after Lent, when the soul and body are ready to receive the joy of Salvation, Great Sunday comes - Easter Day on April 16, 2017.
Immediately after the end of Palm Sunday, the last week before Easter begins, which is called Passion. Each day of this week is called the Great - since it was on these days that events took place that were of particular importance in Orthodox Christianity: The Last Supper, the betrayal of Judas, the crucifixion of Christ - and then - his Resurrection. Therefore, every day has its own, special, and even mystical meaning.
Let's take a look at what can and cannot be done these days before Easter, and what signs and traditions exist.
Do's and Don'ts during Holy Week
Great Monday. Finished everything repair work around the house, removed construction debris, took out old, unnecessary things.
Great Tuesday. Finished repairing clothes, sewing, cutting, darning, ironing and the like. The melt water collected this year was used to wash livestock to protect them from diseases.
Great Wednesday. At night, from Tuesday to Wednesday, they took water from a river or well into a large jug or mug, and made the sign of the cross three times. At two o'clock in the morning they watered themselves with this water, leaving a little at the bottom, signing themselves with a cross three times. Clean clothes were put on a wet body, and the rest of the water was poured under a tree or bush. This meant the birth of a washed body and, according to signs, protected from diseases for the whole year.
Maundy Thursday - or Maundy Thursday. Clean Thursday in 2017 falls on April 13th. Maundy Thursday or Maundy Thursday is the fourth day of Holy Week, the strictest week of Great Lent.
Bathing is of symbolic importance on Maundy Thursday, on this day you need to wake up before sunrise and have time to swim. It is believed that in this way, as in Epiphany bathing, a person washes away all sins from himself, and all ailments and illnesses will bypass him.
On Clean Thursday, you need to go to church for confession and communion. On this day, according to customs, it is customary to do at home before Easter general cleaning. It is after going to church on a clean Thursday that you need to clean the house.
You need to clean up very carefully, not superficially - you should wash all the objects in the house, including the ceilings. There is a sign that if it is good to clean the house on a clean Thursday, then the whole next year the house will be clean. Again, cleanliness in the home will reflect the inner purity of the soul of a believing Christian.
In addition, it is necessary to wash all textiles and prepare traditional Easter food: Easter cakes and colored eggs.
Customs and signs for Clean Thursday
1. Preparation of Thursday salt. Each family member should take a handful of salt with clean hands and pour all the salt into a common pot. Every time the house is cleaned, salt should be added to the water to wash the floors. It is believed that this custom helps to improve the atmosphere in the house.
After the grand cleaning carried out on Maundy Thursday, houses are not swept and cleaned according to customs until Easter itself.
2. The most famous sign on Maundy Thursday is to count money three times - in the morning before dawn, at lunchtime and at sunset. It is believed that in this way money will not be transferred in the house.
3. Another one of the signs of Pure Thursday is associated with Easter baking - if the treat turns out to be heavy and loose, then the believer will have to wait for the same year.
4. On Maundy Thursday, children's hair and women's hair ends are also cut - it is believed that from this they will grow better and be lush.
5. Women who are unhappy in their personal lives are ordered to go waist-deep into the river on Thursday night. It used to be that such a woman would soon meet her betrothed and her personal life would improve.
6. On Clean Thursday, you can plot for a good income. To do this, you need to throw a handful of coins into the water that you are going to wash the apartment while saying: “Money, get drunk - don’t transfer, grow, multiply, don’t get the enemy!”
On this day, they completed the cleaning in the house - they washed everything clean.
Answered by Archpriest Nikolai Yemelyanov
What can and cannot be done during Holy Week? What not to do on Good Friday?
In the Church, the question is never raised like this - what is possible and what is not. Everything is possible in the Church! Where there is a real Church, there is absolute freedom. It's just that there is experience accumulated by generations of Christians, which allows you to somehow build your life in such a way that such special and holy days as the days of Holy Week do not pass by. It's not a question of what not to do. It's a question of what to do to try and feel that these days are very special.
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As always, the answer to a similar question is both very simple and very complex at the same time. Simple - because there is some simple set of actions that it would be nice to have time to do. Difficult - because these actions require inner concentration and prayer, and these two things are not operationalized and objectified in some simple way.
First It is, of course, a prayer. All services in the church during Holy Week are special. Every day for the first three days, the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts is served. Before these Liturgies, at the Hours, the whole Gospel is read in parts from beginning to end.
In the evening, from Monday to Wednesday, the wonderful words “I see Your Chamber, my Savior, decorated and I don’t imam clothes, let the stench come in” and the troparion “Behold the Bridegroom is coming at midnight ...” stichera of the nun Cassia.
Each of the days of Holy Week is dedicated to the remembrance of the events that took place on those days. On Thursday, the Last Supper and the establishment of the Sacrament of the Eucharist are remembered. For this day, you need to prepare in advance, confess in advance and be sure to take communion. On Thursday evening, everyone gathers in the church to read the 12 Gospels dedicated to the Passion of Christ. On Friday, the day of the Crucifixion, during the day the Shroud is taken out to the middle of the temple, and in the evening - a burial with a procession. On Saturday morning they again serve the Liturgy, at which once a year they sing the hymn "Let all human flesh be silent and think nothing in itself." After this, the consecration of Easter cakes and Easter is performed.
Finally, on Saturday night, everyone gathers in the temple for Easter procession, the Easter service and the Liturgy, at which they again try to take communion.
It would also be nice to have time to paint the eggs, cook Easter cakes and Easter, in fact, it’s nice to somehow clean the house for the holiday at the beginning of the week ...
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Do you still have questions about what not to do during Holy Week?
Usually this is not an issue. The question is how to manage to do at least half of the above. After all, there are still children, work, someone needs to take care of the sick or the elderly, someone is sick himself, etc. Therefore, usually all things that can be postponed, they tried and try to postpone these days for later. Leave only the most important and necessary in order to manage at least one of the above and meet the Easter holiday. And they always try to fast more strictly than they fasted the whole fast. For example, on Good Friday adults healthy people do not eat at all until the evening service.
And yet all this is not an end in itself. All this is done in order to try to feel and understand that Christ is somewhere very close. That His Suffering and Resurrection is something quite modern and relevant. It's not about ancient history, this is about us. When you manage to feel it at least a little bit, then all questions about what you can do and what you can’t do disappear.
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Holy Week before Easter begins with Orthodox Christians. The last and strictest week of Great Lent implies spiritual and bodily cleanliness, which is why it is also called White or Clean Week.
The time of the most strict fasting came for Orthodox believers on April 25, 2016 - Holy Week (week). This period is named after last days stay of Jesus Christ on earth.
Holy Week 2016: what can be done?
Biblical traditions tell us that throughout Holy Week Jesus Christ approaches his death on the cross, therefore, in memory of those events, believers are supposed to keep the most strict fast.
On Holy Week, you can not eat meat, fish, eggs, as well as milk and dairy products. Vegetable oils are not allowed. At this time, one should not sing and dance. It would be best to devote this time to prayers, serving in churches and preparing for Easter.
Days of Holy Week of Great Lent
Each day of Holy Week is called Great and is intended for certain deeds. For example, on Maundy Monday you should finish all the work in your house, for example, paint and repair, clean up.
On Maundy Tuesday supposed to finish washing, ironing, darning clothes, and on Great Wednesday garbage is taken out of the dwelling and eggs are prepared for traditional Easter painting.
Clean Thursday in 2016: what date?
Great or Maundy Thursday in 2016 falls on April 28, 2016. On this day, you should swim at dawn: It is believed that water at this time has a special healing and cleansing power.. In addition, Orthodox believers on Maundy Thursday bake Easter cakes and cook cottage cheese easter, and before kneading the dough, you must definitely read a prayer.
On Maundy Thursday, a fire is lit in churches, which should be preserved and brought to your home. It is believed that such a candle will protect from fire throughout the year.
Good Friday in 2016: what date?
The strictest day of Great Lent and Holy Week in particular is Great or Good Friday falling on April 29, 2016. On this day, according to legend, Jesus Christ was crucified.
On Good Friday, you can’t work around the house, and you can’t sing and have fun. In memory of the suffering of Jesus Christ, one should abstain from food.
Holy Saturday 2016
Holy Saturday is considered the most troublesome day for housewives. On this day, you need to prepare everything you need for the Easter feast, as well as consecrate the festive food in the church.
On the evening of Holy Saturday, Orthodox believers go to the temple, where during the night service they meet Holy holiday Easter, which in 2016 falls on May 1st. published
Easter is considered the most important Christian holiday and they begin to prepare for it immediately after Forgiveness Sunday, that is, seeing off. The strictest weeks of a month and a half fast are considered the first and last.
Easter is considered the most important Christian holiday and they begin to prepare for it immediately after Forgiveness Sunday, that is, seeing off. The strictest weeks of a month and a half fast are considered the first and last. It is the seven days before Easter that are called Holy Week, and what cannot be done and what signs are associated with it will be described in this article.
What can not be done during Holy Week and what can be done according to church canons?
On Palm Sunday, Christians still rejoice and rejoice, glorifying the name of Christ, but already on Monday they begin to grieve, feeling the approach of inevitable betrayal and death. On this day, it is customary to remember the day when the Savior arrived in Jerusalem, whom he managed to meet and what he tried to convey to ordinary laity. The Holy Week before Easter calls on all Christians to observe fasting of the second degree - dry eating. As before, it is unacceptable to eat animal products, but now vegetable oil is also not allowed, and it is recommended to cook food without any heat treatment. On the first day of the strictest week, there is an order not to eat at all before sunset.
Those who are interested in what cannot be done on Holy Week Tuesday should answer that it is recommended to continue to fast and, if possible, finish working with fabrics and threads. Must be home by Thursday full order, set tables and furniture with festive tablecloths and capes, prepare new outfits for yourself and the children. On Wednesday, you can buy all the necessary products for cooking Easter cakes. On Thursday, they remember the Last Supper and read a passage about this event from the Bible. Finish general cleaning and be sure to wash themselves. According to a sign, it is believed that a holiday does not come to a dirty house.
On Friday and Saturday, it is prescribed to completely abstain from food, but such a strict order is typical for the monastery, and ordinary laity can fast according to their strength and health. This is especially true for the sick, the elderly, children, pregnant women. It was on Friday that Christ was sentenced to death and crucified, so it is recommended to defend the service in the temple and do nothing around the house. On Saturday, from the very morning, you need to have time to bake Easter cakes, paint the eggs and take them to the temple for consecration. Those who are interested in what should not be done on the Saturday of Holy Week can be answered that non-lenten food should not be consumed.
What can not be done in Holy Week?
I must say that fasting concerns not only food, but also the spirit. Refusal of certain products means little without cleansing the soul, and therefore, not only the entire last seven days, but the entire month and a half fast, it is recommended to pray, and also try to appease all false and unkind thoughts in yourself. Avoid quarrels and idle talk, slander, flattery and condemnation. It is necessary to hasten to do good deeds and help your neighbor. Only through spiritual purification can one approach God and truly rejoice in the resurrection of Christ.
Those who ask what should not be done on Holy Week before Easter should say that the prohibitions apply to sexual life, as well as any other pleasures. You can kiss with your husband only at night, and refuse any festive and entertainment events. And this is especially true Good Friday. Now it is clear what can and cannot be done during Holy Week, but such prohibitions seem gloomy only to those who have never adhered to them. Having embarked on the path of fasting, one can understand and feel that this was not done in vain, and only by compassion for Christ can one be cleansed, become better and understand how bright and great the Easter holiday is.
