Palm Sunday and Easter

Hello, I’m Rasa and today I’m going to talk about one of the most important holidays – Easter. So what is Easter? Easter is the sacred celebration of Christ's resurrection from the dead. It is the oldest and holiest Christian festival. Every nation celebrates Easter in different way, but every way has some similarities. Today I’m going to talk about Lithuanian traditions of Easter. First of all, Celebrations for Easter in Lithuania actually begin on Palm Sunday with the start of Great Week. But "Palm Sunday" is actually a misnomer since palms grow in warm, humid climates. Instead verba is used. The verba is collected and then adorned with flowers and ribbons. After being blessed in church, verba are brought home and dried. The bare branches are tucked behind holy pictures or in the rafters of the home for protection. Moreover, the food that will be eaten on Easter is prepared on Holy Saturday and, later, the entire family colors Easter eggs. Painted, dyed, and decorated eggs are a part of the Lithuanian Easter tradition, just like elsewhere in Eastern Europe. These Easter eggs are wooden, but Lithuanian decorated eggs can also be blown eggshells dyed with natural plant dyes and patterned using a traditionAalawax-removalAmethod. Furthermore, Easter dinner starts with an egg that can be sliced and shared by the entire family as a sign of unity, or each person can have his own egg and toast with it by clinking it against another's. If your egg shell remains unbroken after the broking, you are destined to have a long life. Also, On Easter Sunday, children hunt for Easter eggs left them by the Easter Granny, also known as Velykė. Granny distributes the eggs to all good children. Bad children receive only a single, plain white egg. The Easter Bunny also figures prominently in Lithuanian Easter. He bakes up a batch of bunny-shaped cookies very early on Easter morning and distributes them to all