Easter basket explained

An Easter basket, also known as a Paschal basket,[1] is a basket used during the Christian Easter season. In different times and places across the various Christian branches, Easter baskets have served different purposes. For adults, Easter baskets may have deep religious significance and be blessed by a priest. In modern times, the baskets may be filled with food or toys and presented to children as gifts. They are also used by children to gather hidden eggs during egg hunts.

Traditional

Eastern Christianity

An Easter basket contains the foods traditionally forbidden to consume during Lent (meat, eggs, and dairy products) that is blessed by a priest for breaking the Lenten fast. This continues to be normative in Eastern Christianity and Easter baskets are typically blessed before the midnight service on Holy Saturday, with their contents being consumed at the feast after the service.[2] Traditions for Easter in Eastern European countries often includes blessing of baskets.[3] [4]

Western Christianity

In parts Western Christianity, emphasis is placed on making a Lenten sacrifice (giving up pleasures such as chocolate and cookies) rather than the traditional abstinence from meat, dairy products, and wine (though a few congregations have revived this practice);[5] as such, in countries of the Western world such as the United States, Easter baskets are filled with Easter eggs and sweets after having abstained from them during Lent.[6] [7]

Poland

In Poland, Święconka or "the blessing of the Easter baskets" is a central tradition on Holy Saturday. [8] The tradition dates back to the 13-14th century in its earliest form.[9] The basket is traditionally lined with a white linen or lace napkin and decorated with sprigs of boxwood (bukszpan), the typical Easter evergreen. Baskets containing a sampling of Easter foods are brought to church to be blessed on Holy Saturday. After the blessing, the baskets of food are then set aside until Easter morning.[8]

Modern innovations in the United States

Congregations and synods belonging to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America have made Easter baskets to be given to needy children or elderly persons.[10] These have been filled with Easter eggs, candy, and toys.[11]

The parents

The parents buy stuff over night or the day before and hide it, and have their kid(s) leave baskets out so they can make them while they are asleep, hide the eggs and then the kids wake up and search for the eggs after opening baskets ! then the parents hide more eggs as themselves not the easter bunny so kids can enjoy!

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: About Paschal Baskets . St. Anthony of the Desert Orthodox Christian Mission . 14 April 2022 . en . 10 May 2013 . 17 April 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220417215856/http://stanthonylc.org/2013/05/paschal-baskets/ . dead .
  2. Book: Encyclopedia of Religion . 2005 . . 978-0-02-865740-0 . 2399 . English . Eastern Christian families continue their tradition of creating intricately decorated Easter eggs to be included in a basket of foods (with sausage, butter, cakes, and other foods proscribed during Lent), which is taken to the church and blessed at the all-night Easter service and eaten at a holy breakfast following that service on Easter morning..
  3. Web site: Byzantine Easter Traditions the Blessing of Easter Foods. 30 December 2015.
  4. Web site: Symbolism of the Foods in a Blessed Eastern European Easter Basket.
  5. Book: Crump . William D. . Encyclopedia of Easter Celebrations Worldwide . 22 February 2021 . McFarland . 978-1-4766-4196-6 . 157 . English . During Lent, it is customary to abstain from ("give up") certain luxuries or vices as a symbolic sacrifice and devote the spare time to prayer, one's family, or other good works that draw one closer to Christ..
  6. Book: Shoda . Richard W. . Saint Alphonsus: Capuchins, Closures, and Continuity (1956-2011) . 2014 . Dorrance Publishing . 978-1-4349-2948-8 . 128 . en.
  7. Web site: The History of Easter Traditions Around The World . The New York Carbib News . 14 April 2022 . English . 14 April 2022 . Real hard-boiled eggs, which are typically dyed or painted, artificial eggs made of plastic filled with chocolate or candies, or foil-wrapped egg-shaped chocolates of various sizes are hidden in various places; as many people give up sweets as their Lenten sacrifice, individuals consume them after having abstained from them during the preceding forty days of Lent. . 16 April 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220416191058/https://www.nycaribnews.com/articles/the-history-of-easter-traditions-around-the-world/ . dead .
  8. Web site: The Treasured Polish Custom of Swieconka. Polish American Cultural Center. 10 April 2016.
  9. Ks, Marian Pisarzak MIC. Błogosławienie pokarmów wielkanocnych. Kontekst paschalny i postny. op. cit. Błogosławieństwo pokarmów i napojów wielkanocnych w Polsce. Studium historyczno-liturgiczne. Warsaw 1979, p. 378. [przypisy tamże]
  10. Web site: Local church makes 70 Easter baskets for a nursing home . FOX13 News Memphis . 14 April 2022 . English . 13 April 2022.
  11. Web site: Lutheran Social Services of Nevada is collecting Easter baskets . Grand Canyon Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America . 14 April 2022 . English . 3 April 2019.

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