How do you celebrate Easter in Poland?

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Apr 24, 11, 14:38 #1

Which of the following Easter-related practices do you observe:
-- Easter confession?
-- Attendance at Good Friday services
-- making pisanki
-- blessing of Easter baskets on Holy Saturday
-- visitng Christ Tomb tabelaux at several parishes
-- Resurrection mass at daybreak
-- sharing blessed Easter eggs at Easter breakafast
-- Easter breakfast
-- żur, hard-boiled eggs, kiełbasa, ham, pasztet, babka, mazurki, sernik, sękacz
-- Wet Easter Monday (śmigus-dyngus)
-- other?

dtaylor5632Threads: 49 Posts: 4,459 Joined: May 2, 09 ♂	Apr 24, 11, 14:41 #2
Here in Scotland, it's not really celebrated. It's more an excuse to have a day off work and take a holiday. Unfortunately the scum that are the Old Firm are playing just now so most people will be in the pubs and will most likely spend the rest of the day smashing up the local pubs.

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Apr 24, 11, 16:17 #3

Polonius3:

Which of the following Easter-related practices do you observe:
-- Easter confession?
-- Attendance at Good Friday services
-- making pisanki
-- blessing of Easter baskets on Holy Saturday
-- visitng Christ Tomb tabelaux at several parishes
-- Resurrection mass at daybreak
-- sharing blessed Easter eggs at Easter breakafast
-- Easter breakfast
-- żur, hard-boiled eggs, kiełbasa, ham, pasztet, babka, mazurki, sernik, sękacz
-- Wet Easter Monday (śmigus-dyngus)
-- other?

I'd argue that the vast majority of those things are done for reasons of tradition, not religion.

KrynskiThreads: - Posts: 175 Joined: Nov 9, 10 ♂	Edited by: Moderator Apr 24, 11, 16:35 #4
Oops, somebody has got rid of my post? Is the censor one of the British folks who are runnin this forum? Nope. all documents say Polish. delphiandomine: I'd argue that How can a racist pig argue? Due to the rigidity of its "views" it's unable to argue, isn't it?

delphiandomineThreads: 42 Posts: 9,954 Joined: Nov 25, 08 ♂ [Suspended]	Apr 24, 11, 16:37 #5
Krynski: Is the censor one of the British folks who are runnin this forum? Didn't you know that this forum is run by a Brit?

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Edited by: Polonius3 Apr 24, 11, 16:50 #6

delphiandomine
I observed only the following:
-- Easter confession?
-- Attendance at Good Friday services
-- making pisanki (wife used to when we had small kids)
-- blessing of Easter baskets on Holy Saturday
-- visitng Christ Tomb tabelaux at only two parishes
-- Resurrection mass at daybreak (went to 9 am mass today)
-- sharing blessed Easter eggs at Easter breakafast
-- Easter breakfast
-- biały barszcz, pasztet, bread, ćwikła, hard-boiled eggs, kiełbasa, babka, mazurki, sękacz (unfortunately all cakes store-bought)

beckskiThreads: 19 Posts: 2,148 Joined: May 15, 07 MEMBER ♀	Apr 24, 11, 23:00 #7
Polonius3: other? Went to Easter brunch, then to a flea market. Got rained on too. (I know, not a very Polish Easter.) A sincere thanks PF, for putting up with me FIVE terrific years, muah!

PlasticPoleThreads: 10 Posts: 5,433 Joined: May 28, 09 ♀	Apr 24, 11, 23:04 #8
Polonius3: -- other? I go out to eat at a restaurant.

SeanusThreads: 22 Posts: 30,158 Joined: Dec 25, 07 ♂	Apr 24, 11, 23:17 #9
I like to have Jesus round :) He turns my water into wine :) Food is the main celebration. Eggs are loved both here and in Scotland so that suits me down to the ground. Confession??? Of what? Please elaborate, Pol3.

PlasticPoleThreads: 10 Posts: 5,433 Joined: May 28, 09 ♀	Apr 24, 11, 23:26 #10
I might eat an egg here and there and oh yes, there's lots of chocolate eggs.

beckskiThreads: 19 Posts: 2,148 Joined: May 15, 07 MEMBER ♀	Apr 25, 11, 01:32 #11
PlasticPole: oh yes, there's lots of chocolate eggs. They'll be even better tomorrow, when they're half price! Gotta love those after Easter candy sales! A sincere thanks PF, for putting up with me FIVE terrific years, muah!

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Apr 25, 11, 01:33 #12

I watched Jesus Christ Superstar ,again.
At Easter I try not to go "phwoar" when the cute dancers appear in the Temple ;)

I loved Easter in Poland, although Im not Catholic I did like the fact that it is still a big deal and about far more than fluffy bunnies and gorging on nasty chocolate eggs.
I didnt go to church because,well,frankly Jesus seemed to hate organised religion in all its forms and I sort of get where he was coming from there but I do love the fact that so many people still find genuine comfort and community within the church families of whichever branch of Christianity.

pgtxThreads: 49 Posts: 6,327 Joined: Feb 14, 09 MEMBER ♀	Apr 25, 11, 01:58 #13
Easter breakfast... plus Swieconka... :)

PlasticPoleThreads: 10 Posts: 5,433 Joined: May 28, 09 ♀	Apr 25, 11, 02:50 #14
beckski: They'll be even better tomorrow, when they're half price! Gotta love those after Easter candy sales! Better get it before it goes stale :)

Polonius3Threads: 1,005 Posts: 4,835 Joined: Apr 11, 08 ♂	Apr 25, 11, 12:27 #15
dtaylor5632 Unfortunately the scum that are the Old Firm are playing just now.... Nie rozumiem. Kindly explain!

WroclawThreads: 77 Posts: 7,404 Joined: Apr 1, 06 ♂ [Moderator]	Apr 25, 11, 12:30 #16
Polonius3, old firm: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Firm

isthatu2Threads: 13 Posts: 5,228 Joined: Apr 3, 08 ♂	Apr 25, 11, 19:50 #17
Polonius3: Old Firm These muppets are even sending parcel bombs to each other now............

wildroverThreads: 180 Posts: 8,188 Joined: Jun 7, 07 ♂	Apr 25, 11, 22:32 #18
isthatu2: These muppets are even sending parcel bombs to each other now............ They tried that in Poland...but all the parcels were stolen before they got there...

isthatu2Threads: 13 Posts: 5,228 Joined: Apr 3, 08 ♂	Apr 25, 11, 22:59 #19
lols.....or just got there a few years after the target haad moved...thats what amazed me about that Polish guy posting himself to burgle places.......

frdThreads: 8 Posts: 1,956 Joined: Feb 3, 09 ♂	Apr 25, 11, 23:24 #20
Easter breakfast, and the easter egg sharing along with wishing well and all that.

spiritusThreads: 53 Posts: 253 Joined: Oct 25, 06 ♂	Jun 2, 11, 15:05 #21
I really don't like this "sharing of the egg". Unlike Wigilia, this is rather a messy affair, eating part of an egg and then sharing the other part with someone who still has egg in their mouth...yuck ! It's even worse if the other person happens to have a moustache or beard and pieces of egg get lodged in there !

legendThreads: 9 Posts: 819 Joined: Apr 23, 11 ♂	Jun 2, 11, 15:14 #22
-- Attendance at Good Friday services (rarely) -- making pisanki (parents do) -- blessing of Easter baskets on Holy Saturday (parents do) -- Easter breakfast (yes) -- żur, hard-boiled eggs, kiełbasa, ham, pasztet, babka, mazurki, sernik, sękacz (of course!) -- Wet Easter Monday (śmigus-dyngus) (when I was a child not now)

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Apr 6, 12, 21:12 #23

Merged: Night of confessionals

Church in the Szczecin area held a night of confessionals (noc konfesjonałów) on Holy Thursday, allowing penitents to make their confression round the clock. Churches were besieged by the faihful. Poliosh media are reporting long queues of young people waiting to confess. As you all know. makign one's Easter dutry (spowiedź wielkanocna) is a conditon for remaining a Catholic in good standing. Those who do not have effectively self-excommunciated themselves.

jon357Threads: - Posts: 622 Joined: Mar 15, 12 ♂	Apr 6, 12, 21:25 #24
And your point is?

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Edited by: Polonius3 Apr 7, 12, 15:27 #25

I was wondering whether the night of confessionals this custom is restricted to Szczecin diocese or maybe practised elswhere in Poland or in other countries.
Incidentally, churches acorss Poland are being besieged today by basket-toting faithful coming to have their hallowfare blessed. This custom is known world-wide wherever Polish people are found. Easter found Polish troops serving under Napoleon in Samosierra, Spain, but, alas, the local Spanish priests lacked the proper prayer for the Holy Saturday blessing.
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