We started the holiday of the Holy Resurrection by participating in the Saturday candlelight service.
Candlelight means to light a lamp.
In the old days, every Sunday evening, oil was poured into the candelabra and lit. Later, however, they began to call the evening Liturgy, which is performed exclusively on St. Birthday and St. The evening before the resurrection.
St. At the end of the Easter Candlelight Liturgy, the officiating priest, accompanied by the deacons and scribes serving the Holy Table, came down from the altar in a solemn procession with candles, a censer, a crucifix representing the resurrection, broomsticks and cymbals and performed a pre-holiday ceremony in the court.
After the reading of the gospel, the priest of the ceremony incensed the believers gathered in the church with incense under the singing of hymns, hymns and spiritual songs “Today is risen” and “Christ is risen” and announced to everyone the life-giving good news: “Christ is risen from the dead”.
And those gathered in the church, with the joy of Christ’s Resurrection as a whole, responded by shouting “Blessed is the Resurrection of Christ”.
The Good News of the Holy Resurrection ends the Great Lent, which began 48 days ago, and is dissolved with fish, eggs and oil.
At the end, the attendees lit the altar candle. their candles and took their homes to illuminate the world with the light of Christ. The Feast of the Holy Resurrection begins with the Candlelight Liturgy.
After leaving the church, with the list of food for the Easter table, my mother and I went to the nearest supermarket and bought what we needed. Then in the evening we started the preparation of Easter dishes. We prepared the pilaf with raisins and raisins, colored the previously boiled eggs, boiled the Trout fish and then fried the cleaned greens.
After preparing all this, I started to decorate the Easter table. When everyone was at home, we sat around the table and said “Christ has risen from the dead, Blessed is the resurrection of Christ”. With glasses full of wine, we wished you and us great good news. Then the egg fight started and I won because my egg was made of clay.
The next morning, my mother and I went to the Holy Trinity Church, prayed and lit a candle.
This is how the Holy Resurrection holiday was.
