June 6, Christians celebrate one of the greatest Christian holidays - the Ascension. It depends on the date of Easter, as celebrated strictly on the fortieth day after Easter Sunday, on Thursday.
Ascension refers to the 12 great feasts, and the believers it very honored. The Bible says that Jesus, after the resurrection, more than a month to live on earth with his disciples and gathered them on the Mount of Olives on the fortieth day, he blessed, and ascended into heaven. All present angels came and reported that to happen the second coming of Christ to earth to judge both the living and the dead. What are the traditions of the holiday, what you can and can not do on this day?
What not to do on this day
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physical work and any other work on the house is forbidden on this day, including crafts: sewing, knitting, and others.
The Ascension of the Lord can not pronounce the words "Christ is Risen" as forty days earlier, because in the render shroud.
On this day, it is impossible to quarrel, quarrel, angry or think about bad, spend the day in the spiritual tranquility.
Our ancestors believed that on this day in any case can not throw trash on the floor in the house and do not care, because Christ is in the guise of the stranger or the poor go to any home.
Give alms or help someone who needs to feed the hungry, as to refuse to holiday help is prohibited.
What should be done in the Feast of the Ascension
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If possible, visit the church and pray to God, repent of their sins, ask for the healing of disease, care and support. If you can not attend the service, pray at home.
If you are with someone in a quarrel or offend someone, not necessarily in that day to ask for forgiveness, but sincere and from the heart.
Ascension accepted to go to relatives to visit and treat them traditional cookies "stairs".
folk traditions
- Ascension believers decorate their grasses and herbs at home, because the summer has finally come into its own.
- The people at this festival organized festivals, and circle dances.
- Occasion women bake traditional food - cakes with green onion rolls and cookies "stairs". These cookies symbolize the stage at the sky, as they have seven rungs.
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