Pascha

Home Activities:

• We begin our study of Pascha on Palm Sunday.  When you bring home the Palms, help your child  put them with each icon.
• Decorate candle with flowers for the Palm Sunday procession, then in your icon corner.
• Again place the icon of the feast we colored a few weeks ago in a prominent place.
• Participate in as many of the Holy Week services as possible. Don’t be afraid to extend bedtime this once or to miss school.
• Read the story at bedtime each night.
• Prayer on Palm Sunday: Hosanna in the Highest! Blessed is He Who Comes in the Name of the Lord. Amen.
• On Pascha: Put the icon in a prominent place.
• Make Easter eggs and color them. With older children, try Pysanky.
• Practice the Paschal greeting “Christ is Risen” & “Indeed He is risen”; memorize in several languages.
• Plant seeds for flowers.  Visit a florist’s shop and look at all the flowers.  Decorate icons at home with flowers.
• Bake the traditional sweet bread and make traditional cheese with your child.
• Let your child help in packing your Pascha basket for church.
• Puzzle and coloring pages.
• Sing the Troparion each day, lots of different melodies.

                      PASCHAL GREETINGS

English: Christ is risen! Indeed He is risen!

                        Greek: Christos anesti! Alethos anesti!

                        Russian: Christos voskrese! Voistinu voskrese!

                        Arabic: Al-masi-kam! Haq an qaam!

                        Romanian: Christos inviat! Adeverat inviat!

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