Podlasie. The second day of Easter Eastern rites – Gazeta Wyborcza

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Monday is the second day of Easter and Orthodox faithful of other Eastern rites. This year, they fall five weeks after Easter with the Catholics. In connection with holidays, in Podlaskie are closed some government offices.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                          
 

                 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

         

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Easter in the Orthodox Church only once in a while falls in the same time as Catholic. It has to do with a slightly different method of calculating the date of the festival in the two rites. That is why often the Eastern rites Easter falls after Christmas Catholics, and the difference can be as much as five week - as this year.

The largest concentrations in the country Orthodox are in Podlaskie, especially in its south-eastern part. There, in connection with the holidays on Monday inactive are many government offices. Among others district offices and city councils in Hajnówka and Bielsk Podlaski, municipal offices in Orla, Bialowieza or Narwi.

In the Paschal Monday in Orthodox liturgies are celebrated St. John Chrysostom. The ceremony in the Orthodox Cathedral of St.. Nicholas in Bialystok presided before noon Archbishop James, Bishop of the Orthodox Diocese of Bialystok-Gdansk.

The faithful come together in families. Many kept the habit so. wołoczebnego, that of giving children by godparents. Ancient tradition are also Konopielki - Easter carolling, which here and there in Podlasie can still hear both during the holidays Catholics and Orthodox.

This year, during the Easter Eastern rites accrue annual celebration in honor of the martyr Gabriel - the patron saint of children and youth of the Orthodox. Every year they take place in Zvierki k. Bialystok, 2-3 May.

In 2002, when the Orthodox Easter fell later still, the celebration in honor of St. Gabriela fared during the Holy Week and were then postponed for a week, for the time after Easter.

Representatives of the Polish Orthodox Church the number of faithful in the country estimated at 450-500 thousand. people. According to CSO data, in the last census belonging to the Orthodox Church in Poland it declared 156 thousand. people. These data are considered, however, by the hierarchy as unreliable.

         

         

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