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.
• Print now the coloring page for the 50 days of Pascha. Color in one space for each day until Pentecost. Want to do more to celebrate all 50 days of the Paschal season? Then print the eggs, one for each week. You can even "dye" them by printing on different colors. Color the eggs, printed to fill an entire page, cut them out, and hang one each week on the wall or on a clothesline across a room. Easy way to review and learn new material, all at the same time. 
• 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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