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CHRISTMAS IN LITHUANIA

CHRISTMAS IN LITHUANIA. In Lithuania there are tree days of Christmas :. Christmas Eve Christmas Day Second day of Christmas. In Lithuania, from November 30 to December 25 there is ADVENT. It's time when people try to be peaceful and remember the real spirit of Christmas.

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CHRISTMAS IN LITHUANIA

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  1. CHRISTMAS IN LITHUANIA

  2. In Lithuania there are tree days of Christmas : • Christmas Eve • Christmas Day • Second day of Christmas

  3. In Lithuania, from November 30 to December 25 there is ADVENT. It's time when people try to be peaceful and remember the real spirit of Christmas.

  4. Christmas Eve In Lithuania Christmas Eve dinner is more important than Christmas dinner. Our traditional Christmas Eve meal are Christmas Evebiscuits.

  5. TRADITIONAL CHRISTMASEVE MEALSWe have 12 dishes on the table • Christmas Evewafer •    Christmas Eve biscuits with poppy milk •    Cranberry pap •    Herring with dried mushrooms •    Herring with raisins •    Pies with mushrooms •    Fried fish •    Beetroot and bean salad •    Nuts, dried apples

  6. Preparation for Christmas Eve is associated with purity and light. Such preparation for the holidays takes all day. Food is being prepared not only for the special dinner but also for the first day of Christmas. People are fasting and abstain from meat, so none of the 12 meals for the Christmas Eve dinner can contain meat.

  7. Christmas Eve table

  8. Christmas Eve dinner starts when first star appears in the sky.

  9. Christmas Eve is finished by going to the Church for a Shepherds’Mass. 

  10. DuringtheChristmas period, in every Lithuanian house there usually is a Christmas tree. We usually decorate it a day before Christmas Eve.

  11. The Christmas tree is usually decorated with Christmas lights, colorful bubbles, paper chains, small bells an tinsel. A star is often placed at the top of the tree.

  12. Sometimes before Christmas we send Christmas cards to our relatives.

  13. It is typical to exchange presents on Christmas day. Children normally find them under the Christmas tree and believe that they were brought by Father Christmas.

  14. Christmas table Christmas table - a wide range of food. Eating what remains of the supper table, as well as meat.

  15. Christmas tree in our capital city - VILNIUS

  16. Christmas time in our school Before Christmas, our school students decorated the school windows in all sorts of paper cutouts.

  17. Christmas time in our school We have also decorates a Christmas tree.

  18. Christmas time in our school …and the wall. It is an Advent Calendar.

  19. Thank you for your attention! Lithuania, Lekėčiai

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