{"id":27608,"date":"2013-03-30T09:20:09","date_gmt":"2013-03-30T13:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/03\/the-blessing-of-the-easter-foo\/"},"modified":"2013-03-30T09:20:09","modified_gmt":"2013-03-30T13:20:09","slug":"the-blessing-of-the-easter-foo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/03\/the-blessing-of-the-easter-foo\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blessing of the Easter Food on Holy Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Blessing%20of%20Easter%20Food.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Blessing of Easter Food.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2013\/03\/Blessing of Easter Food-thumb-300x238-14103.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"238\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(63, 63, 63); \"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px; \"><i>Bless, O Lord, this creation that it may be a means of salvation to the human race, and grant that, by the invocation of Thy Holy Name, it may promote health of body, and the salvation of souls in those who partake of it, through Christ our Lord.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(63, 63, 63); \"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(63, 63, 63); \"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">[The Blessing of the Easter Food] is a wonderful tradition in Russia and the Slavic countries. On Holy Saturday and Easter itself, the people bring baskets of food to the church to be blessed&#8230;.The baskets are filled with colored eggs, butter, <i>salo<\/i> (fatback, like bacon), different kinds of stuffed rolls, candies and cakes. But above all there is <i>pascha<\/i>, a specially baked cake, rich in eggs, topped with icing, and decorated with candy crosses or Easter figures. It&#8217;s the first thing the family eats after the Easter services. The Easter basket is an integral part of the tradition, for in order to observe the feast properly, people fast all very strictly during Holy Week and abstain from all meat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(63, 63, 63); \"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; \"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">Fr. Walter Ciszek, S.J.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; \"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\"><i>With God in Russia<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bless, O Lord, this creation that it may be a means of salvation to the human race, and grant that, by the invocation of Thy Holy Name, it may promote health of body, and the salvation of souls in those who partake of it, through Christ our Lord. [The Blessing of the Easter Food] is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/03\/the-blessing-of-the-easter-foo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Blessing of the Easter Food on Holy Saturday<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[2366,2053,2351],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27608"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}