For pupils of the fourth (4-th) form.
Easter in Ukraine
Easter is a great holiday. We
celebrate this holiday in April. In Ukraine people make baskets. They cook
Easter cakes called ‘paskas’. They paint eggs beautifully. A coloured egg is
called “pysanka’. Pysanka is the traditional Ukrainian Easter egg. Ukrainian
people put Easter cake, some sausage, Easter eggs, some ham, some cheese, some
butter and salt into their baskets. On Easter Sunday they usually go to church
with their baskets, give thanks to God / Christ and sing Easter songs. After
that each family has a holiday lunch or dinner. The first Easter meal begins
with an Easter egg. The head of the family cuts it into small pieces and gives
them to each member of the family with the words “Khrystos Voskres!” (“Christ
has risen” [riz(ǝ)n)]).
In the Ukrainian town of Kolomya
there is a pysanka museum, the only museum of this kind in Ukraine. Its collection
contains more than 10 000 pysankas from every region of Ukraine.
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