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Easter in Ukraine
By Lori Hadacek, B.F.A.
Here's a story about Easter from the Catholic community in Ukraine, which is just south of Russia:
While Christ was dying on the cross for our sins, drops of blood from His wounds fell to the ground. Each of the droplets of His precious blood turned into a crimson Easter egg. Christ's mother, who stood at the foot of the cross, shed many tears for her dear Son. Her sorrowful tears fell upon the Easter eggs, causing beautiful designs to form. After the Jesus took His last breath, the Blessed Mother gathered all of the eggs up in her blue mantle and set out to ask Pontius Pilate for permission to bury her Son. On the way she handed the precious Easter eggs out to children she encountered as keepsakes of Christ's love. When she arrived at her destination she fainted and the rest of the eggs spilled out of her mantle to children all around the world, thus beginning the tradition of decorating eggs for Easter.
Print out and color a Ukrainian Easter Egg or design your own using some of the Ukrainian Christian symbols as a guide.
Easter
Egg
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Cross
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Rose
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Triangle
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Net
Dots
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Fish
Traditional Colors for Ukrainian Easter eggs are black, red, orange, green, blue, white, and yellow.
Decorate some Easter eggs, and choose your very best as a gift to the Blessed Virgin in Celebration of Our Risen Savior. Bring one with you to church for Easter Mass, and bring it to Mary's statue. Present it to her and say a decade of the Rosary, then bring it home and give it to some member of your family to eat!
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