Sirni Zagovezni is one of the great Christian holidays, marking the beginning of the long Easter fasts, it is associated with numerous rituals and rites aimed at banishing evil and diseases, purifying the thoughts and the soul in order to welcome better ones.
A day for forgiveness. What to put on the table
As a major Christian holiday, Sirni Zagovezni places many prohibitions on the believers, aimed at devoting themselves to the holiday and the preparation of its ritual meals, and not to household work.
– On Sirni Zagovezni, you should forget about housework. It is forbidden, as it is on most major Christian holidays, allowing only work related to rites and rituals, and effort in the kitchen to prepare delicious ritual meals. House cleaning and housework should be done the day before the holiday.
– Work in the garden, in the field, in the home workshop and any kind of hard work that is not directly related to the traditions and customs of the great Christian holiday is also among the answers to the question “What is not done on Sirni Zagovezni”.
– Washing, spinning, weaving are prohibited on the day of the holiday, so that hail does not strike and destroy the crops, according to popular belief.
– To Sirni Zagovezni, you cannot refuse to grant forgiveness when it is asked of you. Even if you still hold a grudge in your soul, forgiveness is not refused out loud, and the traditional response is “Forgive you! God forgive’, not ‘I forgive you’. The holiday is also known as Forgiveness, Forgiveness and others precisely because of forgiveness with relatives, family and friends – salvation not only for the soul of the one who received forgiveness for bad deeds and thoughts, but also forgiveness-salvation for the one who forgives. It is stated in the Bible that whoever does not forgive the transgressions of his neighbors, the Lord will not forgive his transgressions, and every person has such sins, even if they are unintentional, right?
– Conflicts, verbal or physical confrontations, inflicting insults, emotional wounds, provocations have no place at the holiday.
– Cooking meat and serving it on the festive table is strictly prohibited. The meat was slaughtered a week ago – on Mesni Zagovezni, and its consumption is not allowed until Easter. For Sirni Zagovezni, the housewives can prepare fish before the strict fasting begins.
– In Sirni Zagovezni, lavish dinners with numerous friends are not held. In the evening, only the closest members of a household should sit around the table, humble and forgiving.
– In some parts of the country they don’t even wash the dishes after dinner – this chore is left for the next day, while in others on Good Sunday they wash all their household utensils in which meat was once cooked or consumed, in order to prepare it for the days of fasting.
– The parents of the maidens, in whose yards the bachelors throw burning arrows – an expression of their attraction and love for the maiden and a hint of their intentions, should not object to this ritual. At Sirni Zagovezni, they cannot blame the young people, all they have to do is take care of removing everything from the yard that is easily ignited and poses a risk of fire before the holiday.
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