Easter in Poland

Easter holiday is a special period in the

year. Catholic Church recognizes this holiday as the most important

in the whole year. Majority of Poles

participate in church services and many

families come together to celebrate.

There were many traditions connected

to this period and some of them are

being kept to today. Girls wait for Wet

Monday to let boys pour water on them. It

assures girls to find the right boys in

future.

Of course these holidays are

preceded by the period of special arrangements,

the part of us is doing many houseworks,

even not realizing that

they are included in a

tradition, because they

symbolise removing tracks of the winter and at the same time evil and illness

from our houses.

We also prepare the food to bless on Easter which we take in a nice decorated baskets to

the church. We always put colourfuly painted eggs which

are symbols of a new life, a lamb usually made of

chocolate or sugar. The lamb symbolises the exhausted Christ. We also take bread, cold cooked meat, pepper and salt, festive cakes. On

Easter table next to meat and cakes we place the basket with the blessed food The

Easter breakfast starts with sharing the egg , it is similar in its form and the symbolism for Christmas breaking with

wafer.

Easter lamb

Painted eggs

Easter basket

Happy Easter