Many eastern churches celebrate festivals at different times to those in the UK, with Easter this year falling a month later than the date used in western churches. My dad is Ukrainian, so we have the benefit of celebrating Easter again this weekend.
There are many traditions in the Ukrainian church associated with Easter, and my shot today illustrates a food one.
Paska and Pysanky are the two main traditional foods to celebrate the Ukrainian Easter. Paska is a rich bread made with butter, eggs and milk. Pysanky are eggs decorated using a batik method of wax and dyes. These are packed into a basket with other traditional foods and taken to church for a special blessing on Easter Saturday, ready to be eaten on Easter Sunday.
Most of the eggs in this shot are traditional painted eggs, but there is a modern one (the yellow one) which shows how the craft has been reinterpreted using a different technique.
I had no idea that Easter was celebrated later in some religions!!! On this Thursday in the Catholic Church we celebrate the Ascension of Jesus Christ into heaven... which took place 40 days after Easter!!!
Cool shot!!!
I as well was unaware that different churches celebrate Easter at different times. your picture of the bread and two types of Easter eggs is beautiful. Happy Easter.
@monkeykid@bruni Thank you. The Eastern Orthodox churches use the old Julian calender to work out their Christian festivals so I get two of everything including Christmas! Sorry to be late replying, I was celebrating with family in Sheffield.
@bobhuegel@padlock@gillg@malc Thank you. I love the traditions of Easter in Ukrainian culture and was fortunate enough to celebrate with family in Ukraine a couple of years ago. We took a few small chocolate eggs as they are uncommon there. Katharine
@dolphin@pyrrhula@bkbinthecity@tonydebont@purplehaze12@bizziebeeme Thank you. Easter traditions are very special and bring memories of spending the festival with my godparents and their children in Bradford where there is a large community of Ukrainians. Katharine
Cool shot!!!
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