Easter Eggs

[Zabdi_Premjit]

Often, you’ll see Christians from the Byzantine-rite dying eggs red for Pascha. One is often place in the icon corner of the home. Does any one know the significance of this custom?

 

[bpbasilphx]

Fancy Pysanka (as they are called) are made by Russians and especially Ukrainians, too.

Of course, Tsar St. Nicholas took this to the next level by ordering jewelled eggs from Faberge.

Greeks are especially fond of red eggs (recalling the legend of St. Mary Magdalene) during Pascha.

In some places, an egg is the last food eaten on Cheesefare Sunday evening before the fast begins, and the first food eaten to break the fast after the Pascha Liturgy.

 

[Patchunky]

Often, you’ll see Christians from the Byzantine-rite dying eggs red for Pascha. One is often place in the icon corner of the home. Does any one know the significance of this custom?

Have never seen red eggs in the Ikon Corner but among Poles and Ukrainians, it’s custom to take a decorated egg, attached a head and paper wings to it so that it looks like a dove and then hang this in the Ikon Corner.

This “dove” represents the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove that descended on Our Lord at His baptism in the Jordan.

Hope this helps…

 

[JKirkLVNV]

I read that this stems from the pious legend (or maybe more?) that St. Mary Magdalene bore witness to Christ before the Roman Emperor Tiberius, testifying that He rose from the dead. The Emperor, sitting at table, scoffed and said, “No one can rise from the dead, anymore than that egg can turn red!” St. Mary picked the egg up and it turned red in her hand. She is depicted in some icons holding an egg.

I want to dye eggs red next year with my niece, nephew, and godson. Does anyone know how to get a really deep, rich red?

 

[mlouise007]

Does anyone know how to get a really deep, rich red?

I want to know, too. I use Fantis brand egg dye and follow the directions but my eggs seem half as dark as the ones I get back from the priest. I bet they took my dozen and made egg salad with them instead of adding them to the distribution group. Or maybe they get darker during the Divine Liturgy

 

[Patchunky]

I want to dye eggs red next year with my niece, nephew, and godson. Does anyone know how to get a really deep, rich red?

There’s a Ukrainian gift shop in Philadelphia called HANUEY’S that sells edible pysanky dyes that give you a really nice red.

You can also find egg dyes on eBay from Greece and from Russia but directions are not in English…

 

[mariyka]

There’s a Ukrainian gift shop in Philadelphia called HANUEY’S that sells edible pysanky dyes that give you a really nice red.

You can also find egg dyes on eBay from Greece and from Russia but directions are not in English…

Here’s a website that I’ve used for years: Hanuseys.com. I’ve been very satisfied with their prices and services.

 

[Byzantine_Wolf]

The explanation I heard was this…

Eggs, as we know, spring forth life, since little baby chicks are hatched from them. The red of the egg represents the blood of Christ. As we all know, the blood of Christ gives us life and freedom from death. That’s the significance of it.

 

[Diak]

The version taught me of the story of pysanky by a dear departed baba of our parish was that the Myrrh-Bearing Women had a basket of eggs, and when they returned from the empty tomb they were all beautiful pysanky.

In any case it is one of our favorite family activities in the winter and Lenten months, and many of our kids’ friends have caught on as well. Our pysanky “parties” now will often attract 15 or 20 teenagers who are surpisingly very quiet and focused once the kistky get heated up…
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