This document summarizes several Christian holidays and traditions associated with Lent and Easter: - Fat Thursday is the last feast before Lent on the Thursday before, connected to carnival celebrations. Lent is the 40 day period before Easter focused on penance, fasting, almsgiving and prayer in preparation. Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent with ashes. - Holy Week includes Maundy Thursday commemorating the Last Supper, Good Friday remembering the crucifixion, and Holy Saturday before Easter Sunday and the resurrection. - Easter traditions include blessings of baskets of food, an Easter breakfast or meal, and in some areas children searching for gifts from the Easter bunny on Easter Sunday and Monday.

1. Tradition
of Lent

2. Fat Thursday
Fat Thursday – In Christian calendar this is a
traditional feast marking the last Thursday
before Lent. It is connected with carnival. The
exact date of Fat Thursday depends on the
date of Easter.

4. Lent
Lent it is time that prepares us for Easter. It
takes 40 days. It is treated as a time of
penance and conversion in Church. Its
recommendations are fasting, almsgiving and
prayer. During Lent in the church flowers at
the altar disappear and the mood of
repentance is present in the temple.

6. Easter’s Eve
Easter’s Eve - the rite celebrated on the night
of the Resurrection . It is an integral and
essential part of the Paschal Triduum .

7. Ash Wednesday
Ash Wednesday- In Christian calendar it is the
first day of Lent. As a tradition on this day the
priest puts the ashes made from branches
blessed on the previosu Palm Sunday on the
heads of holy mass participants. This tradition
emerged in the VIII century. In the XI century
the Pope Urban II converted the Ash
Wednesday into an obligatory holiday.

9. April Fool's Day
April Fool's Day – a custom associated with
the first day of April , celebrated in many
countries around the world . It consists of
making jokes, intentional misleading, lie,
competing in trials, encouraging others to
believe in something untrue . On this day in
many different media humorous information
appear. April Fool's Day began to be popular in
the late Middle Ages . Probably it refers to the
old ancient Roman practice.

11. Palm Sunday
Palm Sunday in the Christian calendar, it is seven
days before Easter and since then Holy Week
begins . It was established to commemorate the
arrival of Christ into Jerusalem. It begins a period
of spiritual preparation for Easter , which focuses
on the Passion of Christ . Palm Sunday is
celebrated in Poland since the Middle Ages.
According to the rites of the Catholics that day
palms (a symbol of reviving life) are brought to
church. Since 1986, according to the will of Pope
John Paul II Palm Sunday is also World Youth Day

13. Maundy Thursday
Maundy Thursday- also known as Holy
Thursday is the Christian holy day on the
Thursday before Easter. It is the fifth day of
Holy week, and is preceded by Holy
Wednesday and followed by Good Friday. This
day is a remembrance of establishment of
priesthood and Holy mass by Jesus Christ.

15. Good Friday
Good Friday- is a Christian holiday in
rememberance of the crucifixion of Jesus
Christ and his death at Calvary. On this day
you can not eat meat and in the church there
is a Way of Sorrows

17. Holy Saturday
Holy Saturday – This is the day before Easter
and the last day of Holy week. It
commemorates the day in which Jesus Christ's
body was lied in the tomb. On Holy Sturday
you go to the church not on the liturgy but to
consecrate food for Easter breakfast

19. Easter Sunday
Easter Sunday - the first day of Easter . It is also the last
day of the Easter Triduum . Easter begins on Saturday
after the sunset. It begins with the liturgy of light.
Outside the church the priest sets the holy fire , from
which then Paschal ignites . The Polish custom is that
after the morning Resurrection family has a solemn
Easter breakfast , which starts with wishes and sharing
the Blessing of the basket . In some regions , the
parents hide in the house baskets with sweets or gifts
from the Easter bunny , which children search. Sunday ,
like Monday, are in Poland, days off from work.

21. Wet Monday
Wet Monday – It is a celebration which is held
on Easter Monday in Poland and also in some
neighbour countries such as Czech republic,
slovakia, Hungary. On this day boys
traditionally throw water over girls and spank
them with willow branches. Nowadays if the
weather is beautiful enought on the streets of
big cities as Kraków on Wet Monday there are
regural water battles.

23. Holy Week
Holy Week - in Christianity festive time
commemorating the last days of Christ ,
preparing for the biggest feast of the
Christians, Resurrection . Special time in the
Holy Week is the Easter Triduum . Holy Week ,
which in the Christian tradition appeared only
in the fourth century , begins on Palm Sunday
and ends on Easter Sunday .

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