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Photos from our 2024 Easter Basket Blessing located at the bottom of the page.
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Ukrainian easter eggs avail. @ our gift shop
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All parishioners are invited to participate in the Eastern European tradition of Święconka (pronounced shveen-son-ka), when a priest blesses baskets filled with symbolic foods that will be eaten on Easter. *The linen and food items are chosen for the ways in which they remind us of the mysteries of the Lord’s Passion, death, and resurrection.
Some of the traditional foods that are included in the baskets are: bread, butter, horseradish, hard-cooked eggs, meat (sausage, ham, lamb, bacon), salt, and cheese. The baskets are then decorated with items such as ribbons, greenery, dried flowers, and a white cloth symbolizing Christ’s burial shroud.
Each basket can be different, you are encouraged to decorate and have fun with it! Bring your blessed Easter Basket home, and enjoy the food on Easter Sunday.* i.e. bread (the risen Lord), eggs (new life), ham & other meats (joy and abundance), horseradish (the bitterness of the Passion of Jesus), butter (the richness of our salvation), sausage links (chains of death broken when Jesus rose from the dead), salt (adds zest to life and preserves us from corruption), sweets (the promise of eternal life).
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Photo credit top of page:
Adam Janowski: apolishkitchen.blogspot.com (top left)
Portland Diocese Website (top right and bottom right - full story)
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