Hello everyone!

 

We would like to introduce you to the Polish customs during the Easter holidays. Easter is a holiday that commemorates the last days of Jesus Christ’s life. In the Christian tradition, the Holy Week is celebrated, in which the most important days are Friday, Saturday and Sunday, called the Paschal Triduum.

 

On Saturday we prepare food and go to the church to have it blessed. Next, there is Resurrection, which is the day of Jesus Christ being risen from dead, most often celebrated at dawn (often at 6 am).  In the past, until the eighteenth century, the resurrection mass was held at midnight. After the mass, it’s time for Easter breakfast. Easter breakfast should include eggs, cold cut, sausages, ham, muffins, Polish cakes „mazurek” and „makowiec” salt and pepper. We also change the decor of our home for Easter by adding decorations in the shape of bunnies, chicks, or we put plastic eggs on twigs. We don’t know about you but we really like the tradition of eating Easter breakfast and changing the decor of our rooms.

 

Easter Monday is also known as Wet Monday and we call it in Polish „śmigus-dyngus”. In Poland, it is the day when we pour water on each other.

 

Finally, it’s time to learn some words related to Easter:  🐣🥚🐰

 

Ash Wednesday – Środa Popielcowa

Christian feast – chrześcijańskie święto

Easter / Easter Sunday / Easter Day – Wielkanoc / Niedziela wielkanocna

Easter Monday – drugi dzień Świąt Wielkanocy / Poniedziałek wielkanocny / Śmigus dyngusEaster

Easter Night – noc wielkanocna

Easter Sunday – pierwszy dzień Świąt Wielkanocy / Niedziela wielkanocna

Easter break – przerwa wielkanocna

Easter bunny – zajączek wielkanocny

Easter confession – spowiedź wielkanocna

Easter duty – spowiedź wielkanocna

Easter gaiety – radość wielkanocna

Easter greetings / Easter wishes – życzenia wielkanocne

Easter holidays – święta wielkanocne

Easter joy – radość wielkanocna

Easter mass – msza wielkanocna

Easter morning – poranek wielkanocny

Easter rabbit – króliczek wielkanocny

Easter retreat – rekolekcje wielkanocne

Easter song – pieśń wielkanocna

Easter vigil service – nabożeństwo wielkosobotnie

Easter – Wielkanoc

Eastertide / Eastertime / Easter season – okres wielkanocny

Good Friday service – nabożeństwo wielkopiątkowe

Good Friday – Wielki Piątek

Great Fast / Great Lent – Wielki Post

Happy Easter! – Wesołych Świąt Wielkanocnych!

Holy Saturday – Wielka Sobota

Holy Week – Wielki Tydzień

Jesus Christ – Jezus Chrystus

Last Supper – Ostatnia Wieczerza

Lenten service – nabożeństwo wielkopostne

Maundy Thursday – Wielki Czwartek

Palm Sunday – Niedziela Palmowa

Resurrection morning – poranek wielkanocny

Way of the Cross – droga krzyżowa

 

basket – koszyk

to bless – święcić

blessed Easter food – święconka

candy – słodycze

to celebrate – świętować

celebration – świętowanie

chicks – kurczaczki / pisklęta

chocolate eggs – czekoladowe jajka

church – kościół

crucifixion – ukrzyżowanie

to crucify – ukrzyżować

to decorate – dekorować

dyed eggs –malowane jajka

egg hunt – poszukiwanie jajek

fast – post

to hide – chować

lamb – baranek wielkanocny

painted Easter egg – pisanka

resurrection – zmartwychwstanie

to sprinkle ash – posypywać popiołem

traditions – tradycje

 

Happy Easter!

 

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