Easter in Serbia                                                      

                                      

Easter songs

Serbs celebrate Easter, the first Sunday after the full moon, which is the day of the vernal equinox or immediately after it. The earliest it can fall on April 4, at the latest on 8 May.
This year Easter is celebrated on 1 May.
The most recognizable is the custom of giving painted eggs. The egg is a symbol of renewal of nature and life, Easter Egg red means joy for those who give and those who receive it. Eggs are under constant tradition, the colors on Good Friday.
 The first colored egg today is left aside until the next Easter and is called "čuvarkuća".

At Easter, the family went to church Easter service in the world. After the service, the people greeted each other: "Christ is risen!" And "Indeed He is risen!"

Greeting was common until the Ascension. When you return home from the church, hosted lights a candle, takes the censer and incense, Okada all family members to pray, teaches younger censer, and the vats whole house. If you do not know how to sing the Easter hymn, read aloud, "Our Father." After a joint prayer folks again congratulate each other for Easter and sit solemnly set table.
On the table is decorated with a bowl of colored eggs that guests and hosts among themselves shagging. The winner is the one whose egg remains whole, and in the end it breaks itself on the forehead with the words: "Christ is risen!", While others correspond to him, "Truly risen!"

At Easter, the first to eat boiled Easter egg, and then the rest of the dish. If that day comes by the house, gives the first painted egg, but it serves other food and drinks.

Preparation in school

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