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Traditional Easter in Croatia

Traditional Easter in Croatia. The greatest Christian festival is Easter. Christians celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Easter falls on a Sunday between March 22nd and April 25th.

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Traditional Easter in Croatia

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  1. Traditional Easterin Croatia

  2. The greatest Christian festival is Easter. Christians celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Easter falls on a Sunday between March 22nd and April 25th. On Ash Wednesday people start Lent. It's a period of prayer and fasting that lasts for 40 days and it takes place before Easter. Christians commemorate Good Friday as the day when Jesus died, and Easter Sunday as the day when he rose to Heaven.

  3. Ash Wednesday is Christian holiday of prayer and fasting. • It falls on first day of Lent. • As it is the first day of Lent, Christians begin Ash Wednesday by marking a Lenten calendar, praying a Lenten daily devotional, and abstaining from a luxury that they will not partake of until Eastertide arrives. • Ash Wednesday derives its name from the placing of repentance ashes on the foreheads of participants to either the words "Repent, and believe in the Gospel" or the dictum "Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return." • The ashes are prepared by burning palm leaves from the previous year's Palm Sunday celebrations ASH WEDNESDAY

  4. LENT • Lent is 40 days period before Easter, it begins on Ash Wednesday. • In Lent, many Christians commit to fasting. • In Lent people do confession. • The last week of Lent is Holy Week, starting with Palm Sunday.

  5. PALM SUNDAY • The Sunday before Easter is called Palm Sunday. • Palm Sunday is a Christian moveable feast. • In most liturgical churches Palm Sunday is celebrated by the blessing and distribution of palm branches or the branches of other native trees representing the palm branches the crowd scattered in front of Christ as he rode into Jerusalem.

  6. GOOD FRIDAY • Good Friday is two days before Easter. • The date of Good Friday varies from one year to the next on both the Gregorian and Julian calendars. • On Good Friday people are fasting. • It is also known as Holy Friday, Great Friday, and Black Friday. • On Good Friday Jesus was crucified.

  7. Holy Saturday • Holy Saturday or Easter Eve is day before Easter and last day of Holy Week. • It commemorates the day that Jesus' body lay in the tomb and the Harrowing of Hell. • On that day people are colouring eggs.

  8. EASTER • On Easter people go to church to bless eggs, salt, special Easter cake • On Easter Sunday we celebrate the resurrection of Christ. • After breakfast, we are cracking eggs.

  9. THE END Happy Easter! By:Anđela and Ema

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