Easter in Poland

Easter holiday is a special period in the year. Catholic Church recognizes this holiday as the most important in the whole year. Majority of Poles participate in church services and many families come together to celebrate. There were many traditions connected to this period and some of them are being kept to today. Girls wait for Wet Monday to let boys pour water on them. It assures girls to find the right boys in future.

Of course these holidays are preceded by the period of special arrangements, the part of us is doing many houseworks, even not realizing that they are included in a tradition, because they symbolise removing tracks of the winter and at the same time evil and illness from our houses.

We also prepare the food to bless on Easter which we take in a nice decorated baskets to the church. We always put colourfuly painted eggs which are symbols of a new life, a lamb usually made of chocolate or sugar. The lamb symbolises the exhausted Christ. We also take bread, cold cooked meat, pepper and salt, festive cakes. On Easter table next to meat and cakes we place the basket with the blessed food The Easter breakfast starts with sharing the egg, it is similar in its form and the symbolism for Christmas breaking with wafer.

Easter lamb

Painted eggs

Easter basket

Happy Easter