Polish Easter. Resurrection of Christ - Easter

Easter is one of the main church holidays, which is celebrated by both Catholics and Orthodox. The celebration is dedicated to the resurrection of Jesus Christ. There is no specific date for Easter, the day of the holiday is calculated according to the lunar and solar calendar. After the day of the spring equinox, they wait for the first full moon and celebrate Easter the next Sunday after it.

For Catholics in 2016, Easter is scheduled for March 27th. In the west, the center of the festival is Italy. Even in the evening, with the help of a torch, they bring the church fire home and light the hearth. Women do general cleaning. In the morning the whole family must meet for breakfast. In honor of the holiday, a rich, plentiful table was laid. Soon, after breakfast, lunch begins, which is accompanied by even more magnificent and plentiful festive dishes.

The most important sign of the holiday are eggs. They are considered a symbol of fertility and the continuation of life and must be put on the table. It is also customary to paint eggs for Easter, give them to children and exchange them at a meeting.

Celebration traditions

Easter is the oldest holiday in the church calendar. It was officially recognized as early as 325 AD. e. It has long been believed that on this holiday it is necessary to do good deeds for others - this absolves sins from our souls.

Associated with Easter a large number of traditions and beliefs. For example, it is believed that all seven days, until the Ascension itself, Jesus roams the planet surrounded by his disciples. They look like beggars, in old clothes. During their journey, they test people, rewarding the generous and punishing the wicked.

On Easter, in prayer, they ask the Lord for what they most dream of. And you can also notice something that we do not notice on ordinary days. If while the Easter service is going on, turn the candle with fire down, you can see a sorcerer with small horns, standing with his back to the altar. You can also stand near the doors of the church, holding cottage cheese, and see a witch wagging her little tail.

Easter for a Russian person is associated with the fulfillment of desires. During the holiday week, you can ensure success for the whole year. For example, if you come home from work first, then luck will accompany the whole year.

Young girls also had special signs. For example, during morning service, the girls in prayer asked God for a groom and their desire was surely fulfilled. And in order to remain beautiful, on the first day of the holiday they washed themselves with water from a silver bowl with a red egg.

On Easter, they went to the spring for water. Such water, brought in complete silence, was considered special. She was washed for beauty and health and splashed the walls of houses for happiness.

People of different professions also have customs for Easter. Fishermen, so that there is always fish in their nets, after the words “Christ is risen”, they answered “But I have fish.” It was customary for hunters to shoot in the air near the church so that the gun would fire without a miss. And they did not hunt all the festive week, considering it a sin to shed blood on a holiday.

One of the main symbols of the holiday is the rabbit, which carries colored eggs. And, despite the fact that the holiday is celebrated differently everywhere, the tradition of painting eggs is everywhere. The main food on the table at Easter are egg dishes, Easter cottage cheese and Easter cakes. They are worn to church, consecrated, then eaten and treated to guests.

Easter or Resurrection of Christ - the largest and most revered holiday in the Christian religion.

This is the main day of the year for Orthodox and Catholic Christians - it was on this day that Jesus Christ was resurrected.
The resurrection of Christ is historical event, which has its roots in the distant past. According to ancient legends, it was on this day that a miracle happened - Christ is Risen! Easter is celebrated according to ancient traditions that are still observed today.
The name "Passover" itself comes from the Hebrew word "Pesach" (passover). The Jews symbolize Passover with the liberation of the Jewish people from Egyptian slavery. For Christians, Easter is a symbol of the redemption of human sins through the death of Jesus Christ and his subsequent resurrection. It is on this day that all believing Christians (Orthodox and Catholics) are given hope for salvation and resurrection after death. The resurrection of Christ is the main meaning of faith in the Christian religion.
The date of Easter is determined according to the lunisolar calendar and falls on Sunday - according to ancient tradition, Christ resurrected on the third day after the execution, on the night from Saturday to Sunday.

Easter is a movable holiday and each year the date is determined separately.
It is also necessary to know that the dates of Catholic and Orthodox Easter do not always coincide. This is due to the fact that Orthodox Church for calculation uses the ancient Julian calendar, and the Catholic Church in the XVI century switched to the Gregorian calendar. And only 30% of Catholic and Orthodox Easter fall on the same day. The rest of the time, Catholic Easter comes earlier - the time difference can reach up to a month.

Calendar of Orthodox and Catholic Easter for 2015-2025

Orthodox Easter	Catholic Easter
Orthodox Easter 2015 - April 12	Catholic Easter 2015 - April 5
Orthodox Easter 2016 - May 1	Catholic Easter 2016 - March 27
Orthodox Easter 2017 - April 16	Catholic Easter 2017 - April 16
Orthodox Easter 2018 - April 8	Catholic Easter 2018 - April 1
Orthodox Easter 2019 - April 28	Catholic Easter 2019 - April 21
Orthodox Easter 2020 - April 19	Catholic Easter 2020 - April 12
Orthodox Easter 2021 - May 2	Catholic Easter 2021 - April 4
Orthodox Easter 2022 - April 24	Catholic Easter 2022 - April 17
Orthodox Easter 2023 - April 16	Catholic Easter 2023 - April 9
Orthodox Easter 2024 - May 5	Catholic Easter 2024 - March 31
Orthodox Easter 2025 - April 20	Catholic Easter 2025 - April 20

In his article tochka.net will tell you when the most important church holiday is celebrated, Easter in 2016 - what date, on what day, what the date of Easter 2016 depends on, and how to calculate it correctly.

Easter 2016 is celebrated throughout the Christian world. This day is a symbol of eternal Life and victory over Death, cleansing from sins, and therefore Orthodox and Catholics glorify Jesus Christ and his Resurrection.

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When is Easter 2016 Catholic celebrated:

The discrepancy between the dates of Easter in the Orthodox and catholic church caused by the difference in the date of church full moons, as well as the difference of 13 days between solar calendars. Sometimes Western Easter coincides with Eastern Easter, but most often Catholic Easter, as in 2016, is several weeks ahead of Orthodox Easter.

The word "Passover" originates from the name of the Old Testament holiday of Passover, which was named so from the Hebrew word "Passah" ("passes by") - in remembrance of the ancient event of the exodus of the Jews from Egypt and from Egyptian slavery, when the angel who struck down the Egyptian firstborn, at the sight of the blood of the Passover lamb on the doors of Jewish dwellings, he passed by, leaving them untouched. Another ancient interpretation of the holiday connects it with the consonant Greek word "I suffer."

AT christian church the name "Easter" received a special meaning and began to denote the transition from death to eternal life with Christ - from earth to heaven.

This ancient feast of the Christian Church was established and celebrated in apostolic times. The ancient church, under the name of Easter, combined two memories - about the sufferings and about the Resurrection of Jesus Christ - and dedicated the days preceding and following the Resurrection to its celebration. To designate both parts of the holiday, special names were used - Easter of suffering, or Easter of the Cross, and Easter of the Resurrection.

The resurrection of Jesus Christ testifies that he "is risen as God." It revealed the glory of His Divinity, hidden until then under the cover of humiliation, shameful for that time death on the cross, like the criminals and robbers who were executed with him.

Having risen from the dead, Jesus Christ sanctified, blessed and confirmed the general resurrection of all people, who also, according to Christian doctrine, will rise from the dead on the universal day of resurrection, as an ear grows from a seed.

In the first centuries of Christianity, Easter was celebrated in different churches at different times. In the East, in the churches of Asia Minor, it was celebrated on the 14th day of Nisan (March-April), no matter what day of the week this number fell on. The Western Church celebrated Easter on the first Sunday after the spring full moon. An attempt to establish agreement between the churches on this issue was made under St. Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, in the middle of the 2nd century. The First Ecumenical Council of 325 decided to celebrate Easter everywhere at the same time. This continued until the 16th century, when the unity of Western and Eastern Christians in the celebration of Holy Pascha and other holidays was broken by the calendar reform of Pope Gregory XIII.

Orthodox local churches determine the date of the celebration of Easter according to the so-called Alexandrian Paschalia: on the first Sunday after the Paschal full moon, between March 22 and April 25 (old style).

Since apostolic times, the church has celebrated Easter services at night. Like the ancient chosen people, who were awake on the night of their deliverance from Egyptian slavery, Christians are awake on the sacred and pre-holiday night of the Bright Resurrection of Christ. Shortly before midnight on Holy Saturday, the Midnight Office is served, at which the priest and deacon approach the Shroud (a canvas depicting the position of the body of Jesus Christ in the tomb) and take it to the altar. The shroud is placed on the throne, where it must remain for 40 days until the day of the Ascension of the Lord.

The priests put on festive vestments. Before midnight, the solemn ringing of bells - the bell - announces the approach of the Resurrection of Christ. Exactly at midnight, with the Royal Doors of the iconostasis of the temple closed, the clergy quietly sing the stichera: "Thy Resurrection, Christ the Savior, the angels sing in heaven, and vouchsafe us on earth to glorify Thee with a pure heart." After that, the curtain is removed (the curtain behind the Royal Doors and covering them from the side of the altar) and the clergy again sing the same stichera, but in a loud voice. The Royal Doors open, and the stichera, in an even higher voice, is sung by the clergy for the third time up to the middle, and the choir of the temple sings the end. The priests leave the altar and, together with the people, like the myrrh-bearing women who came to the tomb of Jesus Christ, go around the temple in a procession with the singing of the same stichera. The procession means the procession of the church towards the resurrected Savior. Having gone around the temple, the procession stops in front of the closed doors of the temple, as if at the entrance to the Holy Sepulcher. The rector of the temple and the clergy sing the joyful Easter troparion three times: "Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death and bestowing life (life) on those in the tombs!" Then the abbot recites the verses of the ancient prophecy of the holy King David: "May God arise and His enemies (enemies) be scattered…", and the choir and the people sing in response to each verse: "Christ is risen from the dead…". Then the priest, holding a cross and a three-candlestick in his hands, makes the sign of the cross with them at closed doors temple, they open, and everyone, rejoicing, enters the church, where all the lamps and lamps are lit, and sing: "Christ is risen from the dead!".

The subsequent Divine Liturgy of Paschal Matins consists of the singing of the canon composed by St. John of Damascus. Between the songs of the Paschal Canon, priests with a cross and a censer go around the whole church and greet the parishioners with the words: "Christ is risen!", To which the faithful answer: "Truly, He is risen!"

At the end of Matins, after the end of the Paschal canon, the priest reads the "Word of St. John Chrysostom", which describes the celebration and meaning of Pascha. After the service, all those praying in the temple christenate with each other, congratulating on the great holiday.

Immediately after Matins, the Easter Liturgy (worship) is served, where the beginning of the Gospel of John is read. On Easter, all those who pray, if possible, partake of the Holy Mysteries of Christ. Before the end of the liturgy, Easter bread, artos, is consecrated.

After the end of the festive service, Orthodox Christians usually break their fast with consecrated painted eggs and Easter cakes at the temple or at home.

Easter is celebrated for seven days, all week, which is called Bright or Paschal Week. Each day of the week is also called Light Day. On the bright week divine services are performed daily with the open Royal Doors of the iconostasis (which are closed at the usual liturgy) as a sign that Jesus Christ has forever opened the gates of the Kingdom of Heaven to people.

The entire period until the Feast of the Ascension, celebrated on the 40th day after Easter, is considered Easter, and the Orthodox greet each other with the greeting "Christ is Risen!" and the answer "Truly Risen!".

It has long been accepted that the first meal after Lent should be consecrated colored eggs, Easter cake and cottage cheese Easter.

The explanation of the custom of painting Easter eggs red goes back to the late apocrypha (a work of early Christian literature that was not included in the biblical canon), which refers to the conversion of the Roman emperor Tiberius to the Christian faith. Wanting to stop the preaching of St. Mary Magdalene, Tiberius declared that he was more likely to believe in the transformation of a white egg into a red one than in the possibility of reviving the dead. The egg turned red, and this was the last argument in the controversy, which ended with the baptism of the Roman king.

The custom of exchanging colored eggs has firmly entered the life of the church. Red color easter egg symbolizes the all-conquering Divine Love.

Easter cake in its shape resembles artos. Easter artos is a symbol of Jesus Christ himself. In the Easter cake, transferred to the festive table, there are muffins, sweets, raisins and nuts. Properly cooked Easter cake is fragrant and beautiful, it does not get stale for weeks and can stand without spoiling for all 40 days of Easter. Easter cake on holiday table symbolizes God's presence in the world and in human life. The sweetness, richness, and beauty of the Easter cake express the Lord's concern for every human being, his compassion and mercy towards people.

Sweet cottage cheese Easter is a prototype of the Kingdom of Heaven. Her "milk and honey" is an image of endless joy, the blessedness of the saints, the sweetness of heavenly life, blessed Eternity. The form of Easter in the form of a mountain symbolizes the foundation of the new heavenly Jerusalem - a city in which there is no temple, but, according to the Apocalypse ("Revelation of the Holy Apostle John the Theologian"), "The Lord God Almighty Himself is his temple and the Lamb."

The material was prepared on the basis of information from open sources

The phrase " El Classico"calls the football confrontation between the two most successful clubs in Spain - Real Madrid and FC Barcelona.

The beginning of the confrontation originates in 1902. Since then, the teams have already played 242 matches, of which 95 were won by Real Madrid, 96 by Barcelona, and 51 matches were played with a draw.

El Clasico football matches are invariably the most popular on the planet and attract the attention of fans not only in Europe, but all over the world. The number of viewers of each game is in the hundreds of millions. For example, the game, which took place in April 2017, was watched by more than 650 million viewers in total.

El Clasico December 18, 2019 - when will it be (start time, where to watch):

In the 2019-2020 season of the Spanish championship (LaLiga), the teams will meet twice.

First meeting(Barcelona - Real Madrid, La Liga round 10) will take place on Wednesday December 18, 2019.
The start time of the match local time is 20:00, which corresponds to 22:00 Moscow time.
Venue: Camp Nou stadium.
The meeting will be shown live TV channel "Match!".

As for when second meeting El Clasico (Real Barça) in the 2019-2020 season of the Spanish Championship, then it is scheduled for March 1, 2020 (26th round of La Liga).

Where will the ice hockey match between Russia and Finland take place on December 15, 2019:

At the Russian stage of the Euro Hockey Tour 2019, which is called the "Channel One Cup", the Russian national hockey team holds three meetings.

The first two games have already taken place in Moscow at the CSKA Arena, and the final match of the stage ( Russia - Finland) will be held on Sunday 15 December 2019 in St. Petersburg at the Gazprom Arena.

That is, the venue of the match Russia Finland on 12/15/2019:
* Russian Federation, St. Petersburg, Gazprom Arena.

Gazprom Arena was originally a football stadium, and for the first time it was converted to hockey in December 2018. Then the game Russia - Finland, held as part of the "Channel One Cup" in 2018, broke the attendance record for hockey matches between Russia and the USSR. The 2018 game was attended by 71,381 people.

Now the record attendance for hockey matches in Europe belongs to the Veltins Arena, where 77,803 spectators came to watch the 2010 Ice Hockey World Cup game between Germany and the USA.

During the organization of the hockey match, the football field of the Gazprom Arena was moved out into the street. But it will remain intact, as the lawn was covered and the heating turned on. Fans who come to the stadium will also be comfortable, because. the roof of the arena has been moved. The indoor temperature will be about 20 degrees Celsius higher than the outdoor temperature.

What time will the match Russia - Finland start on December 15, 2019, where to watch (TV channel):

Beginning of the hockey match between the Russian and Finnish teams on 15 Dec. 2019 scheduled for 16:00 Moscow time.

The game will be shown live two television channels: federal "First" and sports "Match! Arena". Live broadcast from St. Petersburg will begin at 15:55 Moscow time.

Replay (recorded match) is available on the website of the "First".

What time will the hockey match Russia - Sweden start, where to watch it live:

Start time of the match Russia - Sweden - 20:00 Moscow time.

live broadcast can be seen in online on the site of the "First" channel(section "Hockey Channel 1 Cup 2019"). Also on the site the game will be available for viewing in the recording.

Live will be available on the channel " Match! Country", included in some packages of channels of cable operators, starting from 19:55 Moscow time.

On the television broadcast of the "First" meeting Russia - Sweden will be shown in the recording at 00:00 (midnight), from December 12 to December 13, 2019. The time indicated is Moscow.

The shortest day awaits the Russians on Sunday December 22, 2019. Almost the same (with a difference of no more than 14 seconds) will be the duration of the previous and subsequent days (December 21 and 23, 2019) - 6 hours 59 minutes. Time is indicated "from sunrise to sunset" for Moscow.

That is:
December 22, 2019 is the shortest day in 2019.

Note that the duration of the shortest and longest long day 2019 differs by almost 3 times. So, if during the winter solstice the duration of the day (from sunrise to sunset) is 7 hours, then the longest day of the year lasts almost 18 hours.