Holy Week - a very important time for all Orthodox Christians. At this time, you can clean your body and soul from sin and defilement, to become closer to the Lord. What are the things you need to make sure before Easter?
The week before Easter Sunday Christmas Orthodox Christians are very strict, filled with sacred meaning, different traditions and taboos. What will help clean your house, and your thoughts from negative, and the soul from sin?
Clean your house
What should be done before Easter / istockphoto.com
Holy Week decided to hold a general cleaning in the house, it will help clean your home from negative energy and negative. It is necessary to pay attention to each corner of the house: wash the windows, wash the curtains and drapes, to sort out and throw away broken things, unnecessary - to distribute to the needy. Before Good Friday to complete all the chores, finish the laundry and cleaning, wash the floors, wipe the dust.
To repent
The essence of the Lent - in the purification and humility. Negative thoughts produce sin and already are in themselves sinful, so it is a sacred time do your best to cope with them and remove all negative. Fight with such thoughts until they take possession of your mind and consciousness, and not provoke a sinful act.
Before Easter, be sure to confession and communion, be aware and ask for forgiveness for all their deeds. If you do not adhere to Lent, at least in the most rigorous days of Holy Week abstain from animal products.
Cleansed of negativity
How cleansed of negativity on Maundy Thursday / istockphoto.com
There is a special cleansing ritual, you can hold it in Maundy Thursday.. Dial water in a bottle or cup and place it on a few hours around icons. Then crossed himself, read the "Our Father" and wash with holy water. Part of the water can leave and sprinkle it all the rooms and the front door, to cleanse the house of negative energy.
read the Gospel
IN each day of Holy Week the faithful recall the suffering and the last days of the earthly life of Jesus Christ, so these days definitely need to pray, attend church and read the Gospel. Read the passage on each of the days of Holy Week, tell the children about life, the sufferings and the miracles that made the Savior.
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