My favourite holiday is Easter! This year it was on the 19 th of April.

In the Christian world, Easter is the

greatest holiday.The respect for it is so great that every Sunday is called little Easter. It's a mobile
holiday, and it is celebrated on the first Sunday after a full Moon, which is also a day of spring equinox, or
shortly after it. The earliest can fall on July 4 th of April, and at the latest on 8th of May. For this holiday,
there are beautiful customs in the entire Christian world, and so we have them. The most recognizable is
the custom of giving as a gift coloured eggs. The egg is a symbol of the renewal of nature and life, the
Easter red egg means joy both fot those who present it and for those who receive it. Eggs, in a settled
tradition, are being coloured on Good Friday.

When Easter (Orthodox) everyone in the family usually gets up early, around 8 a.m. When someone
enters the room, he/she says in my language “Hristos Voskrese” and we respond to him with (in Serbian)
“Vaistinu Voskrese”. We decorate the living room and dining room with figurines of rabbits, eggs, nests
of birds, with bags full of chocolate eggs and rabbits, with Easter tablecloth and more other creative
figurines. The living room and dining rooms are specially used, and usually it's egg-and-rabbit figurines or
chocolate rabbits and chocolate balls, and they're also putting bigger vases full of boiled and coloured
eggs.

Since the morning hours, the whole liturgy served by the Serbian Patriarch Irinej with other priests at St.
Sava's temple is shown on television. Mothers, on the other hand, two days before Easter, on Good
Friday, colour eggs in different patterns and decorate them with their children. This is also my favourite
thing to do on Easter. All the eggs can be eaten except one red egg, which stays in the showcase the
whole year until next years Good Friday. That egg is coloured the first and it is kept until the next Good
Friday, in order to keep the house and the householders safe. Many believe this egg brings prosperity and
peace and that is why they keep it in a special vase, which is usually decorated.

Egg cracking

There's a decorated bowl on the table with the painted eggs that guests and hosts have to crack between
them.

On Easter, they eat the boiled eggs first and then the rest of the food. If that day, a guest comes to the
house, first he's is given a painted egg, and then he is served with other food and drink.