Easter. Consecration of Easter cakes
Holy Week is the time of the most mournful divine services. Each service is dedicated to tragic events last days the earthly life of the Savior. And at the same time, Orthodox people manage to prepare for the Easter holiday. Typically in Maundy Thursday they clean the house, bake cakes, paint eggs, prepare cottage cheese Easter. We, too, prepared for the bright holiday in our own way. Through the efforts of our parishioners, cleaning was carried out in the courtyard of the temple and in the adjacent territory.
Throughout the whole day of Great Saturday and until the very beginning of the Easter service, the rite of consecration of cakes, eggs and pasokh was performed in the summer refectory.
Among the food brought for the consecration were real culinary masterpieces.
The parishioners did not forget to donate part of the consecrated food for the common night meal. Every year everything more residents of the city come to bless the Easter food.
Maybe not everyone knows where the custom of giving colored eggs and sacred Easter cakes came from?
“The tradition of giving colored eggs on Easter originated from the holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Mary Magdalene, when she, after the Ascension of the Lord, came to Rome to preach the Gospel, appeared before the emperor Tiberius and, offering him a red egg, said:“ Christ is risen! ”, Starting in this way your sermon.
Kulich is a kind of artos at the lower degree of consecration.
Where does the Easter cake come from and why are Easter cakes baked and consecrated on Easter?
We Christians should especially receive communion on Easter. But since many Orthodox Christians have the custom of receiving the Holy Mysteries during Great Lent, and on the Bright Day of the Resurrection of Christ, few receive communion, then, after the Liturgy, on this day, special offerings of believers are blessed and consecrated in the church, usually called Easter and Easter cakes, so that eating from them reminded of the communion of the true Easter of Christ and united all the faithful in Jesus Christ.
The use of consecrated Easter cakes and Easter cakes on Bright Week among Orthodox Christians can be likened to eating the Old Testament Easter, which on the first day of the week easter people The Chosen One ate in the family (Ex. 12: 3-4). Also, with the blessing and consecration of Christian Easter cakes and Easter cakes, believers on the first day of the holiday, having come home from the churches and finished the feat of fasting, as a sign of joyful unity, the whole family begin bodily reinforcement - stopping the fasting, everyone eats blessed cakes and Easter, using them throughout the entire Bright Week "(based on materials from the site www.zavet.ru).
... And so, shortly before midnight, everyone who wants to take part in the Procession of the Cross and the Easter service begins to gather in the church. The weather is not at all April - cold and windy, but there are so many people gathered that some of the people stay on the street to wait for the beginning of the procession, the temple cannot accommodate all those who came. Feels the approach of the most important, the most important event in the circle Church holidays... The territory of the temple is elegantly consecrated with garlands of lanterns and candles ...
And exactly at midnight the long-awaited one is heard: “You have seen the Resurrection of Christ! ..”. Religious procession begins. Hundreds of lighted candles in the hands of believers, Easter vestments of priests, friendly singing - everything fills the soul with a sense of joy and triumph.
At the end of the procession, the parishioners disperse in two churches: according to tradition, so that as much as possible more people could take part in the night Easter service, it is performed simultaneously in the temple of the Smolensk Mother of God and in the church of St. Blessed Xenia of Petersburg. At the end of the Easter service, the "workers" of the church (mostly "laborers") take communion first and rush to set the tables in the refectory for a general break of fasting.
The service ends. Here I would like to switch to poetry: “Everywhere the gospel sounds, from all the churches the people are knocking down, the dawn is already looking from heaven, Christ has risen! Christ is risen! Indeed, one can hear from everywhere: “Christ is risen! Truly he is risen! " All are invited to a common meal. There are traditional Easter treats on the tables, as well as tea and sandwiches. And there is not a single gloomy and sad face among those gathered, everyone is smiling, christening.
And at such a joyful moment, John Chrysostom's announcing word on the day of Holy Easter is recalled: “... He who is pious and God-loving, let him enjoy this wonderful and bright celebration. Rich and poor, rejoice with one another; ... you who have fasted and who have not, rejoice today. The meal is plentiful, - all fill up…. Everyone enjoy the feast of faith; all use the wealth of goodness ... Christ is risen, and the angels rejoice; Christ is risen - and not one is dead in the grave. For Christ, risen from the dead, is “the beginning of the dead” (1 Cor. 15:20). To Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen".
Great Saturday is the last day before Easter. For believers, this is both a mournful and joyful day: Christ is still in the tomb, the Resurrection has not yet come, but everything is already filled with pre-Easter joy. On Great Saturday, the Church commemorates the bodily burial of Jesus Christ and His descent into hell.
Sermon by the rector at the Liturgy.
On the eve of the Feast of Easter of Christ, special offerings of believers are blessed and consecrated in the church, usually called Easter and Easter cakes. Easter cake is a church-ritual food, it is a kind of consecrated bread. Eating the consecrated Easter cakes and Easter should remind us of the communion of the true Easter of Christ and unite all the faithful in Jesus Christ. Consecration of food serves to sanctify the people themselves, who use them reverently. However, it must be remembered that the surest means of sanctifying the whole person is the Communion of the Holy Mysteries of Christ.
Before the beginning of the rite of consecration, the rector addressed all who came with a pastoral word and congratulated the people on the upcoming Great Day of the Bright Resurrection of Christ.
The consecration of Easter cakes, Easter eggs and other Easter offerings took place during the Sunday troparion:
"When you descended to death, the Immortal Life, then hell you put to death with the radiance of the Divine, when you resurrected the dead from the underworld, all the powers of heaven to cry: Life-Giver, Christ our God, glory to Thee."
The hearts of all people (and even those who do not quite understand the meaning of prayer) are beating in a joyful rhythm, and they feel the approach of the appropriate holiday of the Easter of Christ!
The consumption of the consecrated Pasokh and Easter cakes during the whole week after Easter - Bright Week among Orthodox Christians can be likened to partaking of the Old Testament Passover, which on the first day of Easter week the chosen Jewish people ate as a family (Ex. 12, 3-4). Likewise, believers on the first day of Easter after the Divine Liturgy, traditionally performed on the night from Saturday to Sunday, coming home from churches and completing the feat of fasting, as a sign of joyful unity, start bodily reinforcement with the whole family - they eat blessed Easter cakes and Easter.
On Bright Week, all relatives and good acquaintances are sure to visit, giving special care to those in need, they often try to attend divine services, which are unusually joyful at this time. But you are not supposed to go to the cemeteries until Radonitsa (10th day after Easter).
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On Holy Saturday, servants, before reading the Gospel, dress in white robes.
While singing the verses: "Rise, God, judge the earth ..." the dark clothes of the throne, the altar, and so on change. in light, clergymen also disguise themselves in light clothes. The deacon in white robes, depicting himself as the first witness and herald of the Resurrection of Christ - a bright angel who flew to the tomb, comes out with the Gospel from the altar to the Shroud and reads the all-joyous Gospel gospel about the Resurrection of Christ the Savior, since Vespers on this day refers to the first day of the bright Resurrection of Christ.
, abbot of Epiphany cathedral in Yelokhov, Moscow:
Nobody forces anyone to consecrate food for the Easter table - this is a pious tradition. But sanctification is not just something you do for yourself. A person comes to church with something, in this case it is traditional Easter dishes - cottage cheese Easter, colored eggs, cakes, meat - with gratitude to God that he has all this.
After all, everything that a person consumes is given to him from God. Therefore, we leave part of the food brought in the temple.
We remember the appeal of Christ, which will sound at the Last Judgment: “I was hungry and you fed me” (Matt. 25:35), because “what you did to one of my least brothers, you did to Me” (Matt. . 25:40).
Leaving part of the food in the temple, a person leaves it for his neighbor. Those in extreme need can come to the temple and receive cottage cheese Easter, Easter cake, dyed Easter eggs... This is an important part of the tradition of blessing food.
So it's not about magic, not about transforming some substance into something special, but about gratitude to God, about our sacrifice to God in the person of those people who are unable to purchase these products for themselves due to various circumstances.
The situation when we come to a store and we are offered to buy cakes already consecrated here is not an Orthodox tradition: a person is deprived of the opportunity to come to church with a grateful sacrifice. Or, for example, the restaurant says: "All our dishes are consecrated." For what? Are we talking about food sacrificed to idols?
The tradition of charity, sincere participation in the life of a neighbor lives on in the consecration of various foods - apples, honey, Easter dishes. By the way, there is such a tradition in Islam, when on Muslim holidays every poor person receives a part of lamb meat, which was sacrificed according to an ancient tradition.
We replace this with other dishes, but this refers us to those ancient, Old Testament traditions that no longer have power in the Nativity and Resurrection of Christ, but, transformed, provide an opportunity to participate in the life of our neighbor.
In fact, consecration on Holy Saturday is not a traditional phenomenon, but a kind of need for our populous parishes. Traditionally, food was consecrated after the night Easter service. That is, for those who came to the temple to pray, and not only to consecrate.
The situation when it is necessary to consecrate on Saturday is not bad: a person has the opportunity to venerate the Shroud, pray in the church, and hear Easter chants during the consecration.
But, on the other hand, it turns out a little strange: it is still Great Saturday, Christ is also symbolically lying in the Shroud in the middle of the temple, and Easter Chants are already being sung. Many ignorant people then return home and start breaking their fast.
This is a relic of the Soviet era, when there were few churches, when many could not come to the night Easter service.
In small rural churches, even in the Moscow region, many parishioners bless the brought food after the night service or after the liturgy in the morning.
If the consecration takes place on Saturday, and the person could not come - that's okay. The fact that he eats sanctified food or unconsecrated food does not in any way bring him closer to God and does not move him away from Him. The Apostle Paul also speaks of this.
The fact that many people come to consecration on Great Saturday, who do not go to church and do not live church life, is great opportunity missionary service.
We are preparing for this day, we issue special leaflets, materials that are then distributed to people so that they can read and understand: sanctification is a small part of our spiritual tradition, which is based on your presence, you must give yourself to God.
So all full-time missionaries in our church are obliged to go on duty on Holy Saturday, to involve volunteers in the distribution of missionary leaflets, in conversations, in communication with people.
So Great Saturday is a holiday for missionaries, because there is such an opportunity to talk with people about the main thing!
The Savior says that the fields are "white and ready for the harvest" (John 4:35). When the courtyards of the temples are filled with people who have come to consecrate Easter dishes, this is the field with which to work.
Each has its own measure of religiosity
Archpriest Maxim Pervozvansky , Chief Editor magazine "Heir":
I am amazed by the question - is it necessary to consecrate Easter dishes? You can also ask: is it obligatory for a person to marry? It seems to me that such a formulation of the question is incorrect.
In this sense, there is nothing obligatory in the Church. The Lord, out of love for us, gave us the opportunity to live. And it is quite natural that we try to sanctify everything in this life - to dedicate everything to God. The Orthodox strive to sanctify everything that can be sanctified.
Whenever we eat food, we sanctify it - sign of the cross and prayer.
When Easter draws near after 49 days of fasting, it is only natural that people strive to festive table there was food consecrated in the temple.
Just as there is an entrance to fasting, when a prayer is read at the beginning of the Holy Forty-day, so there is a way out of fasting, including food, which is the consecration of eggs, cakes and pasoh.
It is clear that not taking Communion on Easter is much worse than not consecrating Easter cakes. By the way, it is possible to consecrate Easter cakes in the church after the night liturgy, if it was not possible to do it on Great Saturday.
Discussions of people inside the Church about how important or not at all important it is to consecrate Easter meals did not appear yesterday. It has long existed between, very conventionally speaking, “Protestants from Orthodoxy” and those who, perhaps, even give excessive attention to the ritual side.
This discussion has existed for more than a hundred years, and in the West since the time of the Reformation: why are beards and vestments of priests needed at all, what are temples with golden domes for, and so on. Then you can agree on why icons, holy water, prosphora are needed ...
Since we are composed of soul and body, our body also participates in spiritual life. The same Protestants, who seemed to have abandoned the rituals, still came up with their own, only more truncated, as if apologetic: "Excuse me, but we still have some kind of rituals."
The ceremony is never a value in itself. He is a certain form that expresses a certain content. Sometimes when people stop feeling this content, leaving only external form, - it becomes wrong.
Consecration of Easter food is also one of the forms. It is not mandatory, it is not an element of the Symbol of Faith, and nowhere does it say “I believe in the blessing of Easter cakes and Easter cakes, tea at the Easter table”. Although we all, when the fast is nearing the end, tea, expect and delicious cottage cheese easter, and Easter cakes.
But it is quite possible to imagine an Orthodox culture where there are no Easter cakes, no cottage cheese pasoh, no consecration on Great Saturday. Moreover, even purely liturgically, the consecration on Saturday is not entirely correct.
It is clear that according to the rite of the Great Saturday liturgy should end somewhere in the evening, after people do not leave the church, the consecration of wine and bread takes place, so that people can refresh themselves without leaving the church. After that, people wait for the Midnight Office, the Easter Procession of the Cross ... And the blessing of Easter cakes and Easter is supposed to be done after the night Easter service.
But no one can withstand this in modern life. That is why today historically it has turned out differently, and people consecrate Easter dishes in advance. And I think this is correct.
Yes, the tradition is changing: once upon a time there were strictly scheduled days when Easter cakes were baked and eggs were painted. This is not convenient for a modern person.
I will not be surprised if in a hundred years there will be no Easter cakes, no pastry. And the tradition of painting eggs, I think, will remain.
When thousands of people come to consecrate the festive food on Great Saturday, who do not go to church for a year, I rejoice. Just like when I see crowds of people at the Epiphany font.
Each has its own measure of religiosity. The average Orthodox Christian goes to church on about three Sundays out of four a month and receives Communion once a month. There are believers who are surprised: “How is it possible to receive communion only once a month ?! We must approach the Chalice every Sunday! "
And someone cannot but go to church every day, and they receive communion four times a week. And they could say to those who receive communion once a month: "Well, is this really a religious life ?!"
Does a person come once a year and take communion on the feast day of the Lord's Entry into Jerusalem? Thank God! Hallelujah !!!
If we take an even lower degree of spiritual life, a person comes to consecrate cakes. But he still comes to the temple, takes at least some step. And this is great!
I remember my Soviet youth, when I worked at a research institute, and my scientific advisor, who had nothing to do with Christianity, brought Easter cake on Bright Week and said with the meaning: "Consecrated!" - was consecrated by one of his household. We all had the feeling that we were touching something so important ...
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Prayers for the consecration of food to the holy and great week Easter
Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death, and giving life to those in the grave.
Prayer for the consecration of cheese and eggs
O Lord, our God, the Creator and Coordinator of all, bless the thickened milk, with nimzhe and eggs, and observe us in Thy goodness, as if we partake of them, Thy unenviable gifts will be fulfilled, and Thy inexpressible goodness: as Thy power, and Thy kingdom is , and power, and glory, of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, now and forever, and forever and ever. Amen.
Prayer for consecration meat dishes(performed only after the night Easter service)
Look, Lord Jesus Christ, our God, on the brushed meat, and sanctify me, as you sanctified the ram, whom you will bring to you faithful Abraham, and the lamb, whom Abel for you have brought for all fruitage: like a well-fed calf, you have commanded him to your sons and to your lost packs to You who have returned: yes, as you deserve Your goodness, enjoy yourself, sitsa and those who have been sanctified from You, and the blessed ones, let us enjoy the food of all of us. Thou art true food, and the giver of good things, and we glorify Thee with Thy beginningless Father, and the most holy, and good, and life-giving Thy Spirit, now and ever, and forever and ever. Amen.
As you can see from the prayers above, on Easter they consecrate: eggs, meat and cottage cheese Easter. The missal does not say anything specifically about Easter cakes. Kulich is just a festive bread that has always been a table decoration.
Cottage cheese - 0.5 kg, egg yolk - 2 pcs., Sugar - 1 glass, butter - 100 g. Vanillin, walnuts, raisins - to taste.
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Easter cake is a type of festive sweet bread.
Meat is scary - meat products. They are consecrated only after the Easter service with the singing of the troparion “Christ is Risen. "
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Egg yolk - 2 pcs.
Sugar - 1 glass
Vanillin, walnuts, raisins - to taste
Mix yolks with sugars, add softened butter - grind everything well. Add cottage cheese and stir thoroughly (if possible, rub through a sieve). Add nuts, raisins, mix everything and put on low heat, stirring continuously. Bring to a boil (bubbles will appear) and immediately remove from heat, add vanillin. Fold the mass into cheesecloth and let the excess liquid drain, for about 10-12 hours, put in a vase and decorate with dried fruits to taste. If there is a special form for Easter, put it in a special form for Easter so that excess liquid would drain and put it on a plate after 10-12 hours.
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Prayers for the blessing of light meals during the holidays
PRAYER FOR THE BLESSING OF EASTER DAYS
Lord Jesus Christ our God, according to the great sorrow of the Cross and your sufferings, immeasurable joy of the three-day resurrection of all! We thank Thee, for you have now also made us, who have completed the fasting field, able to attain the saints of these days and the joy of the light of Your resurrection as partakers of being. We thank Thee, for by Thy mercy and inexpressible condescension to our weaknesses, console us with a festive meal to strengthen and delight the weak flesh. We also pray to Thee, bless this Easter bread, thickened milk, eggs and other Easter foods, especially these, from them, obeying the Charter of the Church, in the past days of fasting Your servants abstained, may they eat them with thanksgiving for health, to strengthen bodily strength , in joy and joy, and all contentment of property, we will abound in good deeds, and from the fullness of a grateful heart we glorify The Risen One, who nourishes and comforts us, but together with Thee and Thy Beginning Father and the Holy Spirit forever and ever. Amen.
This prayer can be recited by a priest or the eldest of those present at the first festive meal instead of the usual formula of blessing.
ANOTHER PRAYER AT THE GREEN OF A LITTLE EASTER TRAPEZA
Lord Jesus Christ our God, according to the great sorrow of the Cross and Thy sufferings, fulfilling all the joy of the immeasurable resurrection of the three-day resurrection! We thank Thee, for you have made it possible for us, who have completed the field of fasting, to attain the saints of these days and the joy of the light of Your resurrection as partakers of being. We pray to Thee: bless and sanctify these loaves, their servants, out of their poverty, have prepared them instead of Easter foods and brought them before Your Holy Face. May they be faithful to those who eat them, in sweetness and consolation, and may the scarcity of the meal not darken the festive joy of Thy people. May all sorrows and sorrows be scattered with the light of resurrection, yes, all the rich and the poor, and the abundant, and in poverty, glorify The Risen One, and in sorrow the delight of the One who gives us, together with Thee and Your Beginning Father and the Holy Spirit, forever centuries. Amen.
PRAYER FOR THE BLESSING OF FAST DAYS ON THE FEAST OF THE BIRTH OF CHRIST
Lord Jesus Christ our God, who delighted in our salvation for the sake of the earth in the flesh to appear and from the Brideless and Most Pure Virgin Mary to be inexpressibly born! We thank Thee, for you have vouchsafed us, by the feat of fasting, those who were cleansed, to reach the great feast of Your Christmas and, in spiritual joy, to chant Thee with the angels, to glorify with the shepherds, to worship the Magi. We thank Thee, as for Thy great mercy and immeasurable condescension to our weaknesses, now comfort us not just with abundant spiritual food, but also with a festive meal.
The same we pray to Thee, opening Thy generous hand, fulfilling all that lives Thy good things, giving everyone food that corresponds to the time and church rules, bless the festive food, prepared by Thy faithful people, especially this, from them also obeying the Statute of Thy Church, during the abstaining days of fasting Yours, may they be eating them with thanksgiving for health, for strengthening bodily strength, for joy and joy. Yes, all of us, every contentment of property, will be abundant in good deeds, and from the fullness of a grateful heart we glorify Thee, who nourishes and comforts us, but we will buy Thy Father and the Most Holy Spirit forever and ever. Amen.
PRAYER FOR THE BLESSING OF RAPID DAYS ON THE FEAST OF THE ASSUMPTION OF THE MOTHER OF GOD
(read at the first festive meal instead of the usual blessing formula)
O Our Most Holy Lady, Our Lady of the Mother of God, and after Your departure from the earth, the Orthodox people do not leave, but always visit with Her mercies, exacerbate our joys, quench our sorrows! We thank Thee, for even now Thou gave us the joy of reaching the feast of Your honest Assumption, be comforted by the triumph of the Church, delight in spiritual food - praises, praised for Your glory. We believe, Lady, that for the sake of your intercession, bodily consolation has been granted to us - a festive meal. Pray ubo, Most Pure, Thy Son and our God, all the blessings of the Giver, may He bless the festive food, especially this, from them, obeying the Rule of the Holy Church, Orthodox people abstained in the past days of fasting, may they be partakers of them with thanksgiving for health, for strengthening bodily strength, for joy and joy, may all of us, all bodily contentment of property, abound in good deeds, and from the fullness of a grateful heart we glorify the nourishing and not by our sin, Thy Divine Son, Christ our God, who is merciful to us, bought with His Beginning Father and the Holy Spirit, and You, our Graceful Mother, Representative, Helper and Comforter, together with the holy apostles, prayerfully and gratefully cry out: Most Holy Theotokos, help us always , now and ever, and forever and ever. Amen.
(If the feast of the Assumption Holy Mother of God will happen on Wednesday or Friday, this prayer is read before the meal the next day).
PRAYER FOR THE BLESSING OF RAPID DREAMS (ON THE FEAST OF THE FIRST Apostles Peter and Paul)
(read at the first festive meal instead of the usual blessing formula )
Lord Jesus Christ our God! We thank Thee, as you gave us, the field of fasting of the holy apostles to those who passed away, to reach the feast of the glorious First Apostles Peter and Paul.
We pray to Thee, opening Thy generous hand, fulfilling all that lives of Thy good things, giving everyone food that corresponds to the time and rules of the Church, bless the festive food, prepared by Thy faithful people, especially this one, from them who obey the Charter of Thy Church, in the past days of fasting Thy have abstained May they be those who eat them with thanksgiving for health, for strengthening bodily strength, for joy and joy. Yes, all of us all contentment of property, we will be abundant in good deeds, and from the fullness of a grateful heart we glorify Thee, which nourishes and comforts us, and we will buy Thy Originless Father and the Most Holy Spirit forever and ever. Amen.
(If the feast of the Supreme Apostles happens on Wednesday or Friday, this prayer is read before the meal the next day).
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Prayer for the blessing of meat food on Holy Great Easter.
“Look, O Lord Jesus Christ our God, on meat food and sanctify it, as you sanctified the ram, whom the faithful Abraham brought to you, and the lamb whom Abel brought to you for a burnt offering and as a well-fed calf, which you commanded to slaughter for your wandering the son who has returned to you again; and just as he deserved to enjoy Your goodness, so deserve us all to enjoy the food you have blessed and sanctified. For Thou art the True Food and the Giver of blessings, and we glorify Thee with Thy Beginning Father, and with Thy Most Holy, Good and Life-giving Thy Spirit, now and forever and forever. Amen".
Prayer for the blessing of cheese and eggs.
“Sovereign, Lord our God, Creator and Creator of the whole world, preserving us according to Your goodness, bless the milk food and eggs, so that those who eat them may be filled with Your gifts abundantly given, according to Your inexplicable goodness. For your dominion and yours is the kingdom and power and glory, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and always and forever and ever. Amen".
Prayer for the blessing of artos.
(After the prayer outside the ambo at the liturgy, the artos is delivered in front of the Royal Doors). “God Almighty, Lord Almighty! He who commanded Thy servant Moses, upon the exit of Israel from Egypt and the liberation of Thy people from the heavy slavery of Pharaoh, to slaughter a lamb, representing the Lamb voluntarily slain for us on the cross, who took upon Himself the sins of the whole world, Thy beloved Son of Thy Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we were given liberation and exit from eternal slavery to the enemy and permission from the indestructible bonds of hell, therefore, we, Your servants, in honor, glory and in remembrance of the glorious resurrection of Your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, now, on this all-bright and saving day of Easter, bringing This bread is before Your Majesty, we humbly pray to You: You and now look upon this bread, bless and sanctify it; But us, who brought it, kissing it and partaking of it, make part of Your heavenly blessing and remove from us by Your power all sickness and ailment, giving everyone health. For Thou art the Source of blessing and the Giver of healings, and we send glory to Thee, the Beginningless Father, with Thy Only Begotten Son, and the Most Holy, and Good, and Giving Life by Thy Spirit, now and always and forever and ever. Amen". When sprinkled with holy water. “This artos is blessed and sanctified by sprinkling with this holy water, in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen".
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Prayer for the consecration of cheese and eggs
O Lord, our God, the Creator and Coordinator of all, bless the thickened milk, with nimzhe and eggs, and observe us in Thy goodness, as if we partake of them, Thy unenviable gifts will be fulfilled, and Thy inexpressible goodness: as Thy power, and Thy kingdom is , and power, and glory, of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, now and forever, and forever and ever. Amen.
Prayer for the consecration of meat dishes (performed only after the night Easter service)
Look, Lord Jesus Christ, our God, on the brushed meat, and sanctify me, as you sanctified the ram, whom you will bring to you faithful Abraham, and the lamb, whom Abel for you have brought for all fruitage: like a well-fed calf, you have commanded him to your sons and to your lost packs to You who have returned: yes, as you deserve Your goodness, enjoy yourself, sitsa and those who have been sanctified from You, and the blessed ones, let us enjoy the food of all of us. Thou art true food, and the giver of good things, and we glorify Thee with Thy beginningless Father, and the most holy, and good, and life-giving Thy Spirit, now and ever, and forever and ever. Amen.
As you can see from the prayers above, on Easter they consecrate: eggs, meat and cottage cheese Easter. The missal does not say anything specifically about Easter cakes. Kulich is just a festive bread that has always been a table decoration.
Cottage cheese - 0.5 kg, egg yolk - 2 pcs., Sugar - 1 glass, butter - 100 g. Vanillin, walnuts, raisins - to taste.
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Easter cake is a type of festive sweet bread.
Meat is scary - meat products. They are consecrated only after the Easter service with the singing of the troparion “Christ is Risen. "
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Egg yolk - 2 pcs.
Sugar - 1 glass
Vanillin, walnuts, raisins - to taste
Mix yolks with sugars, add softened butter - grind everything well. Add cottage cheese and stir thoroughly (if possible, rub through a sieve). Add nuts, raisins, mix everything and put on low heat, stirring continuously. Bring to a boil (bubbles will appear) and immediately remove from heat, add vanillin. Fold the mass into cheesecloth and let the excess liquid drain, for about 10-12 hours, put in a vase and decorate with dried fruits to taste. If there is a special form for Easter, put it in a special form for Easter so that excess liquid would drain and put it on a plate after 10-12 hours.
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Prayer for the consecration of cakes at home for Easter 2018
Easter 2018 is celebrated on 8 April. For this holiday, eggs are painted, cottage cheese Easter and Easter cakes are prepared. Can you bless Easter cakes yourself? How to do this correctly at home and what prayer you need to read for this, we will tell you in detail here.
To consecrate Easter cakes, Easter eggs and eggs on the eve of this holiday, believers come to churches on Holy Saturday. Usually, in city churches, the blessing of Easter cakes takes place starting with the morning service during the day.
In some parish churches, this rite is performed early on Sunday morning. Therefore, before going to church to bless Easter cakes, it is better to inquire in advance about the time and order of the Easter service.
However, not all believers can visit temples on this day. Some people cannot do this for health reasons.
If the consecration takes place on Saturday, and people could not come - that's okay, - the clergy say. The fact that a person eats sanctified food or unconsecrated food does not in any way bring him closer to God and does not alienate him from Him. The Apostle Paul also speaks of this.
And yet, for many believers, the sanctification of food has great importance... When Easter approaches after seven weeks of fasting, it is only natural that people want to serve consecrated food to the table.
The custom of bearing fruit for blessings in the church was established in Old Testament(“The first fruits of your land you shall bring to the house of the Lord your God.” Ex. 23, 19) and preserved in subsequent years in Christianity.
The prayer for the consecration of Easter cakes in church on Holy Saturday sounds like this. After the exclamation: "Blessed be our God!" before the prayer for consecration, the Sunday troparion of the 2nd voice is sung:
"When you descended to death, Immortal Belly, then hell you killed with the radiance of the Divine: when did you resurrect the dead from the underworld, all the powers of heaven cry: Life-Giver, Christ our God, glory to Thee."
How to bless an Easter cake yourself at home?
A common form of consecration is the sign of the cross. Orthodox believers cover food in this way every day before eating it.
How to consecrate Easter cakes yourself? The consecration of products by the laity is performed by sprinkling with holy water three times with the recitation of a prayer:
“This food is blessed and sanctified by sprinkling this sacred water, in the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen".
As you can see, the prayer for consecration Easter cakes- the same as on other days. There is no specific prayer for this occasion.
Prayer for the consecration of eggs
The meaning of the consecration of Easter cakes and eggs
It is obvious that Easter is an amazing holiday in all respects: both by the uniqueness of the event that opened the palaces of eternity to us, and by the joy of communication, and by the unique atmosphere of traditions and rituals strictly performed every year, perhaps more carefully than the liturgical charter. Is it possible to imagine modern man this Holiday without consecrated multi-colored eggs, fragrant Easter cake and tender cottage cheese Easter? Sometimes a person does not believe in God either, and does not go to church, and Easter without a consecrated cake and egg is not Easter for him.
Where did this attitude to Easter dishes, reaching almost to their sacralization, to the conviction of the ability to transmit consecration to the people who eat them? It is interesting that such a belief exists not only in the environment common people but also in the centers themselves Orthodox life... So, for example, in Kiev Pechersk Lavra Easter cake (which, by the way, according to local tradition, is called Easter), consecrated at night after the service, is placed on the table in the refectory and stands throughout Pentecost (i.e. 50 days after Easter, until the day of the Holy Trinity). In the morning before the meal, a small part is separated from it and used as a means of consecration, instead of antidor or prosphora.
The essential fact is that this contradicts both the church statute and the rite of consecration. In the explanation of the order of consecration contained in the "Colored Triodion", the following instruction is given: "Everyone should know that all this (meat, cheese and eggs that are offered for consecration) is neither Passover nor a sacrificial lamb, as some think and accept with all reverence as some kind of shrine, but the usual beginning of the offerings, like a blessing for eating after fasting. " That's the news! But what about the shells collected and buried after cleaning the testicle? And what about the pieces of paper from baked cakes, which are traditionally collected within a month and a half, then solemnly taken to the temple, father, to be burned? I do not want to sound like a liberal, or "make a name" on sensational statements, but everything that remains after consecration and is not edible. can be recycled. Of course, the exception is the shells of those eggs on which the images of the Savior, the Cross and the like are applied. This shell or film must be burned. And from the point of view of the rules of icon painting, sacred images can only be applied to a board, stone or metal, symbolizing the inviolability, immutability and eternity of the depicted world.
In order to be objective, I propose to sort out the following issues together.
For what purpose do we consecrate products: cakes, Easter and eggs, etc.? What is the meaning of sanctifying food? Are consecrated foods a sacred object that everyone seeks to bring home? What effect do sanctified foods have on us?
The main meaning of sanctification is that each of us should do everything that we do with prayer and gratitude to God. Whether we sit down at the table - bless the meal, or get up - we are grateful that the Lord sent us food to strengthen our bodily strength, and through that strengthened our spirit. And if we "season" the everyday table with prayer, then even in to a greater extent this should refer to the time of fasting, since everything that is connected with it is performed with a special prayer. We all remember that on "Forgiven" Sunday the priest reads two prayers at the beginning of the fast. So the end of this time is marked not only by the most important service of the year - the Easter Liturgy, but also by prayers accompanying the everyday side of our life - the first break of fasting. Interestingly, even some dates in church calendar in this regard, they are called the everyday side of the day, and not the memory of saints or church events. So, Sunday 56 days before Easter is called "meat-eating". In the Western world, this day corresponds to the well-known but incomprehensible word "carnival" (from the Latin carne and vale, literally - "goodbye, meat!").
The carnival period ends with "Ash Wednesday", which is accompanied not only by special prayers, but also by sprinkling holy water on the person entering fasting.
In this regard, we can recall the Old Testament custom - the entry into and exit from fasting of Nazirites. When the days of the Nazarite vow ended, in which he fulfilled certain religious precepts, abstained from wine and grapes, he came to the entrance of the tabernacle of the meeting, sacrificed, cut his hair and also laid it on the altar. Part of the sacrifice went to the priest who participated in the sacrifice (Numbers 6: 13-18). We see that the end of the days of the vow among the Nazarites was accompanied by a special rite, the sacrifice, the prayer of the one who fulfilled the vow. This amazing custom - all to end with a prayer of thanksgiving - preserved today. It goes through the entire liturgical year. The collection of fruits begins - they bring the best to the temple, so that, having consecrated, they can taste with gratitude, and distribute the rest to the poor. The same ranks are provided for in other cases - the consecration of honey, vegetables, etc. That is, the entire ordinance of consecration is nothing but a blessing at the beginning of the festive meal. In some missals, for example, prayers for the consecration of eggs, cakes and meat, are designated as: "Prayer for the blessing of food on Easter." Interestingly, according to the ustav, these prayers should not be read on Holy Saturday (as is done in practice due to the huge crowd of people in churches), but after the Easter Liturgy before the meal itself.
Of course, from all of the above, one should not conclude that the rite of consecration is not so important, and the people's reverence for the custom of consecrating cakes and eggs is not worthy of attention. Obviously not! However, a logical question arises: "What becomes everything that we bring to the temple?" When water is consecrated in a temple, it becomes a means of sanctifying a person and his home, but when we receive consecrated cake, passover or meat, are they the same means of sanctifying a person, or not?
We will find the answer in the prayers of consecration themselves: “. and grant that we all may be satisfied with food sanctified and blessed by You. "- or -" Bless the thickened milk (cottage cheese and cheese) and eggs and preserve us with Thy Goodness, for we, who eat them, will be worthy of Thy gifts ... ". At first glance, it may seem that in this prayer we are talking about the fact that those who have tasted the consecrated food will receive some great Divine gifts. However, the logic of the prayers is different: when we eat the earthly, we ask you not to deprive us of the heavenly, as in the familiar prayer after eating: "We thank you, Christ our God, who has saturated us with your earthly blessings, do not deprive us of your heavenly kingdom."
But if we still have a doubt that on ordinary days we do not sprinkle our dinner with holy water, as a priest does on Easter, then it will be enough to remember that sprinkling food with holy water on Easter is just one of many traditions. I recall my experience of life in the Theological Academy. So there, as well as in the Lavra, holy water was added to all food! And the rest of the food was taken out to the stockyard and given to the animals, not counting that it was trampled by this. Moreover, we know that on the day of the Epiphany, according to the statute, literally everything is sprinkled with holy water - both at home, and the animals themselves, and even latrines. And we do not believe that by this action we are trampling on the shrine.
Thus, everything that we sanctify becomes a means of maintaining our physical life, and through that, helping in the development of spiritual life. In our prayers, we ask you to keep us from the sin of excess and help, enjoying the blessings of the earth, not to forget the blessings of heaven, to which our heart should strive. The abundance of earthly abundance in a measure perceived by a person cannot but evoke a feeling of a grateful answer to God, not only in prayer, but also in the pursuit of holiness and the realization of the love commanded to us.
I would like to pay special attention to prayer for consecration
meat. It happened in the history of the Church that sometimes meat was treated as a product either unclean, or, in a sense, not useful for a person's spiritual life. By the consecration of meat for Easter, the Church shows that this is the same festive and, moreover, a product useful for a person, like everyone else. The collection of church laws - "Slavic helmsman" contains the rule: "If any of the bishops or priests or deacons on the days of the Lord's holidays does not eat meat or wine ... let it erupt ... tempts many people, ”which can arise from the misinterpreted example of the shepherds of human souls. So that there is no criticism and temptation, the 14th rule of the Ankira Cathedral for those who bear the special feat of abstinence, sometimes decides to take meat, in order to avoid the temptation of other people. For those clergymen who abide in abstinence and voluntarily fast, all the time not eating meat, the council decides that “. ate meat on holidays and then abstained again. " If they do not do this, the rule prescribes that they should be expelled from their dignity! Nevertheless, the consciousness of people returned to these questions quite often. We can also find some examples in the modern world.
Sometimes you have to meet people, especially converts, who "abhor" meat. In such families, it happens that not only adult family members do not eat it, but, under the guise of piety and health benefits, small children are also deprived of meat products. Meanwhile, already ancient church made special rules, so the 51st Apostolic Canon says: "If someone moves away from ... meat and wine, not for the feat of abstinence, but because of disgust, forgetting that all good is evil, or may he be corrected, or may he be rejected from the Church." Commentator church canons(rules) Zonara writes that the rule speaks of those who perceive meat as harmful to the soul, unworthy (offensive).
The Apostle Paul writes to his friend the Apostle Timothy about the revelation received from the Holy Spirit about false teachers and hypocrites: last times some will depart from the faith, heeding ... the teachings of demons, through the hypocrisy of liars, forbidding to enter ... to eat what God has created, so that the faithful and those who know the truth may eat with thanksgiving. For every creation of God is good, and nothing is reprehensible if it is received with thanksgiving, because it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer ”(1 Tim. 4: 1-5). This passage is very clear about the principles of food consumption and does not require any interpretation. A saint or ascetic is often associated with a person who does not eat meat at all, and sometimes even milk. Indeed, most of the lives of the saints are fulfilled similar examples, but not all. Itself Holy Bible shows us other examples as well. An amazing story from the 3rd book of Kings, when the Lord, to save the life of his righteous man - the prophet Elijah - sends a raven that brings him a piece of meat every day.
By His command, the Lord shows us that holiness does not consist at all in abstaining from meat. Holiness is in obeying the voice of God and keeping His covenant (Ex. 19.5), not partaking in evil (Heb. 7.26), doing righteousness and speaking the truth (Ps. 14: 2). It is also interesting that in some other Local Churches, for example, the Greek and Serbian, meat is a product that is allowed to be consumed even in monasteries, which once again confirms the words of the Savior: “Nothing that enters a person from the outside can desecrate him, but what comes from him, then he defiles a person ”(Mark 7, 15).
Thus, we see that the Church introduced the consecration of all types of products: meat and dairy products, in order to show us that everything that was created by God is useful to us in the known least and a well-known attitude. Not allowing pride to settle in our souls and instilling the desire to have more care for spiritual things. Eating food, including meat and dairy, gives a person joy and bodily health, and this, in turn, leads to the preservation of our life and helps in bearing the "weaknesses of the powerless" (Rom. 15: 1). This is what makes a person holy and like God. For: “He took our infirmities upon Himself and bore our diseases” (Matthew 8, 17).
From all that has been said, we are all called to seek in everything “the benefit of others” (Rom. 15: 1) and to do everything with prayer, and even in earthly needs, devote more time to the spiritual side. Likewise, our holidays should not become a time of gorging and drunkenness, but a time of prayer and joy.
It remains only to wish everyone to see the main thing, to strive for the eternal, to preserve good customs, not forgetting about the true meaning of the Great Day of the Resurrection of Christ!