Bringing food on Holy Saturday is one of the most important traditions rooted in our culture. It is practiced at the end of the Holy Week and the Paschal Triduum, just before the Easter Sunday. This year We will bring products for Easter breakfast to Polish churches on April 19.
The spring aura will add to the exit from the house. If you are also planning to go for a walk with a saint, better as soon as possible Make a list of the most important things that should be in the Easter basket. You won’t find chocolate eggs or a bunny among them.
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The tradition of ordination to Easter foods has a long history. In Poland, in a similar form, it probably reaches the fourteenth centuryalthough mention of similar customs in Europe took place much earlier.
Historians believe that This tradition is a combination of pagan rituals related to the arrival of spring and Christian celebration of the Resurrection.
Contemporary Polish Catholics do not imagine Christmas without so -called Święconki carried to church on Holy Saturday. Like those from Slovenia or southern Austria.
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Initially, it consisted primarily of the lamb, but in time other products and dishes began to be added to itwhich are still consumed during the Easter breakfast.
Among the numerous products that are worth putting in a wicker basket, there are no chocolate eggs or other sweetswhich you can buy in any store on the corner. Their symbolism has nothing to do with the resurrection of Jesus or even more Slavic traditions (depending on what is important for whom).
What to put in an Easter basket?
- Eggs – as a symbol of a new life
- Kitchen salt – protects against corruption literally and portable
- bread as a symbol of the body of Jesus Christ
- Steam/ sausage – abundance, physical force, health
- Honey – sweetness of life and abundance, joy of life
- Pepper – bitter experiences and suffering of Jesus (apparently also adds forces)
- Easter grandmother
- Lamb (baked or sugar)
- cheese – prosperity for animals
- boxwood – hope and faith in eternal life
- – happiness, health vitality
Ideally, if the basket is made of wicker. Not only because it is light, durable and airywhich makes her a practical choice when it comes to moving the holy. It fits into the symbolism of these holidays.
And this is due to the fact that It is a natural material that comes from flexible willow branches, and this is one of the first spring trees. Releases the database, which emphasizes the life cycle, revival of nature and the new beginning.
