What to put in the Easter basket - how to assemble and decorate the basket in church on Easter

Easter - the brightest Christian holiday. There are many enjoyable conventions and traditions associated with it. Our family has made their mind and stick. After all they have been through the years and keep the link between generations. So did our great-grandmother, grandmother, mother - today we are doing, and will do our children and grandchildren in the future. Easter basket - one of the most important attributes of this light holiday.

According to tradition, in the morning, on Easter Sunday, at the breakfast table, the whole family. All pray together, head of the family congratulates those present a Happy holiday and wishes for the next year to gather in the same, or even greater strength. And then begins the Easter breakfast, where to eat consecrated in the church of pre-prepared holiday meals, which were to serve in the beautifully decorated Easter basket.

What to put in the Easter basket - how to assemble and decorate the basket in church on Easter

On Saturday, on the eve of Easter, housewives gather baskets, which then carry the children in the temple and sanctify them products for Easter breakfast. This is a very pleasant and responsible occupation. Every housewife tries, what would her basket was rich and beautiful.

What to put in the Easter basket - how to assemble and decorate the basket in church on Easter

This year I collected two baskets - adults and children. Pre-prepared them: one large and one smaller. Also prepared Easter embroidered napkins to cover products.

What to put in the Easter basket?

What to put in the Easter basket - how to assemble and decorate the basket in church on Easter

Set of traditional products: colored eggs, Easter cake, Easter curd, sausage, ham or boiled pork roll, butter, horseradish roots, salt. Eggs symbolize life, victory over death, cake - the fullness of life and the body of the Savior, butter and cottage cheese Easter - prosperity, sausage and bacon - the family fortune, salt - the meaning of life. Clerics do not recommend to carry the temple alcohol, knives and other foreign objects that do not belong to Easter. Before the rite of consecration in the basket put the candle.

What to put in the Easter basket - how to assemble and decorate the basket in church on Easter

The baby basket (pictured above and below), I put: small Kulichik, Krashenki, fruit and chocolate eggs. In the temple, the children share with friends and family krashankami and breakfast compete whose Krashenki the strongest.

What to put in the Easter basket - how to assemble and decorate the basket in church on Easter

So the last bar - decorated Easter basket.

What to put in the Easter basket - how to assemble and decorate the basket in church on Easter

For these purposes, you can use the branches of the vine, green periwinkle, ribbon, artificial flowers, lace ...

For the covering, I took embroidered Easter rushnichki but not least, look beautiful and crocheted lace napkins.

And another very important moment. It is important for all the material pre troubles do not forget the spiritual meaning of the Bright Easter holiday - the sacrifice of Jesus Christ for our salvation. Christ is Risen! Indeed He is Risen!

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